Fariba Bahrami (Assistant Prof.)
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran
bahramy@sofe.ece.ut.ac.ir
EDUCATION
FIELDS OF INTEREST
ACTIVITIES
EXPERIENCES
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
OFFERED COURSES
PUBLICATIONS
EDUCATION
1992-1998
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Major : Biomedical Engineering
Minor: Control Engineering
Dissertation: Simulation and Control of the FES-Assisted Standing-up
in Paraplegic Subjects
1985-1988
Technical University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
M.Sc. in Communication Engineering
Masters Thesis: Achievable Rates for Dependent Sources and for
Multiple Descriptions of One Source
1979-1985
Technical University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
B.Sc. in Communication Engineering
FIELDS OF INTEREST
- Biomechanical analysis of human movements in healthy and spinal cord injured
subjects
- Human motor control
- Design and development of FES-controllers to assist spinal cord injured subjects
- Biological system modeling (e.g., inverse and direct modeling of the heart,
knowledge-based modeling and its application in
voluntary movements)
- Biomedical instrumentation
EXPERIENCES
1988-present University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, Full-time assistant professor
1996
Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, Visiting Scholar: Department
of Electrical Engineering (2 months)
1994-1997
Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Research
Assistant: Department of Control Engineering,
with scholarships from the DAAD and the SFB
Supervisor of M.Sc. projects:
- Development of FES controllers assisting paraplegic patients during standing up
(M. Erfani, 1997)
- Parametric optimization based on inverse dynamic approach for optimal
trajectory generation in chair rise motion (M. Emadi,
1998)
- Biomechanical analysis of chair rise motion (Siahkolah 1998)
- Simulation of paraplegic patients’ voluntary movements applying the emotional
learning algorithm (Saeedzadeh 2000)
- Application of artificial neural networks to the diagnosis of lupus nephritis
(Farrsiu 2001)
- Heart parameter estimation based on inverse modeling (Miri, present)
Supervisor of the biomedical engineering seminars:
- Application of AI in the medical diagnosis
- Telemedicine and medical data transfer in broad-band networks
- Simulation of the spinal cord injured patients’ movement
Supervisor of the research project:
- Design and implementation of a patient simulator (hardware and software),
including ECG and blood pressure (NI/IBP)
simulators
OFFERED COURSES
- Biomedical instrumentation and measurements (graduate course)
- Modeling and simulation of biological systems (graduate course)
- Seminars on biomedical engineering (graduate course), assist spinal cord injured
subjects
- Linear control systems (undergraduate course)
- Electronics I and II (undergraduate courses)
- Linear Algebra (undergraduate course)
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
[1] Bahrami F., Riener R., Jabedar P., and Schmidt G., “Biomechanical analysis of
sit-to-stand transfer in healthy and
paraplegic subjects”, Clin. Biomech. 15 (2000) 123-1333.
[2] Jabedar P., Bahrami F., and Erfani M., “Simulation of voluntary movements of
spinal cord injured patients during rising
from a chair”, J. of Faculty of Eng., Vol. 33, No. 2, Shahrivar 1378 (Sept. 1999), pp.
9-19 (in Persian).
Book Chapters
[1] Bahrami F., Riener R., Buss M., and Schmidt G., “ Optimal trajectory
generation for a paraplegic patient rising from a chair
by means of FES: preliminary results”, Neuroprosthetics from research to clinical
application, Pedotti A., Ferrarin M., Quintern
J., and Riener R. (eds), Springer Verlag, 1996, pp. 285-292.
[2] Riener R., Fuhr T., Bahrami F., Quintern J., and Schmidt G., “Entwurf von
Regelungsstrategien zum Aufstehen mit einer
Neuroprothese’’, Biomedizinische Technik, 1997, 42 Suppl: 285-6.
Proceeding Articles
[1] Bahrami F., Riener R., Quintern J., and Schmidt G., “Optimal trajectory
generation for a paraplegic patient rising from a
chair by means of FES”, Proc. of the first Annual Conference of the International
Functional Electrical Stimulation Society,
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, May 14-16, 1996 (CDROM).
[2] Riener R., Bahrami F., and Schmidt G., “Trajectory generation by parametric
optimization to predict the kinematics and
kinetics of a subject rising from a chair”, Proc. of the ninth Conference of the
Biomechanics and Neural Control, Deer Creek
Restore and Conference Center, Mt. Sterling, Ohio, USA, June 1-6, 1996 (CDROM).
[3] Bahrami F., Riener R., and Schmidt G., “Closed loop control strategies for a
paraplegic patient rising from a chair by means
of FES: simulation studies”, Proc. of the ninth International Conference on
Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, Ljubljana,
Slovenia, June 30- July 4, 1996, pp. 201-204.
[4] Bahrami F., Riener R., and Schmidt G., “Arm-supported standing up: A
comparative study”, Proc. of the second Annual
Conference of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society,
Vancouver, Canada, August 16-21 1997, pp.
197-198.
[5] Riener R., Fuhr T., Bahrami F., Quintern J., and Schmidt G., “Sit-to-stand
transfer of paraplegic patients by means of
functional electrical stimulation’’, Proc. of the 1st International Conference on
Motion Systems (Abstracts), Jena, Germany,
September 1997, pp. 68.
[6] Bahrami F., Erfani M., Jabedar P., “Fuzzy rule-based simulation of the sit-tostand task performed by a paraplegic patient:
simulated patient”, Proc. of the 6th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering,
Tehran, Iran, May 12-14, 1998, pp.
141-146.
[7] Bahrami F., Emadi M., Jabedar P., “ Prediction of the joint trajectories during
rising from a chair applying two methods for
parameterization of the search-space”, Proc. of the 7th Iranian Conference on
Electrical Engineering, Tehran, Iran, May 12-14,
1999, pp. 9-16 (in Persian).
[8] Erfani M., Bahrami F., Jabedar P., “Designing a Fuzzy FES-controller
integrating voluntary movements of paraplegic
patients”, Proc. of the 7th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, Tehran,
Iran, May 12-14, 1999, pp. 25-32 (in
Persian).
[9] Bahrami F., Erfani M., Jabedar P., “Integrating the voluntary movements of
paraplegic patient’s intact limbs in
FES-controllers: part I, virtual patient”, Proc. of the 4th Annual Conference of the
International Functional Electrical Stimulation
Society, Sendai, Japan, August 23-27, 1999 (CD-ROM).
[10] Bahrami F., Erfani M., Jabedar P., “Integrating the voluntary movements of
paraplegic patient’s intact limbs in
FES-controllers: part II, a Fuzzy FES-controller”, Proc. of the 4th Annual
Conference of the International Functional Electrical
Stimulation Society, Sendai, Japan, August 23-27, 1999 (CD-ROM).
[11] Emadi M., Bahrami F., Jabedar P., “Prediction of the movement pattern
considering limited isometric muscle forces in
lower extremities”, Proc. of the ninth Iranian Conference on Biomedical
Engineering, Tehran, Iran, May 1-4, 2000, pp.
419-423 (in Persian).
[12] Bahrami F., Siahkolah S., Jabedar P., “Improving the inverse dynamic
calculations using two optimization methods”, Proc.
of the ninth Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Tehran, Iran, May 1-4,
2000, pp. 424-428 (in Persian).