Karim Ansari-Asl                                Address:                   Electrical Department,               Engineering Faculty,              Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz,               Ahvaz, Iran. Tel.:      +98 (0) 6113330011-9 E-mail:  < karim [.] ansari [at] scu [.] ac [.] ir >              < kar_ansari [at] yahoo [.] com >

 Personal Information                                                                                          

Born: 1974, in Dezful, Iran.
Marital Status: married, 2 children.
Nationality: Iranian.

Education                                                                                                                  

Dec. 2005                   Ph.D. in Biomedical signal processing, University of Rennes1,
                                  Rennes, France. 

Sept. 1999                  M.Sc. in Biomedical (Bioelectric) Eng., Iran university of science and
                                  technology, Tehran, Iran.

Sept. 1995                  B.Sc. in Electronic Eng., University of Semnan, Semnan, Iran

Jun. 1991                   High school diploma in Mathematical and Physical sciences, 
                                 Imam Khomeini high school, Dezful, Iran.

Scientific Publications                                                                                         

Book Chapter:

[1]  L. Senhadji, K. Ansari-Asl, and F. Wendling, "From EEG Signals to Brain onnectivity: Methods and Applications in Epilepsy," In Nait-Ali, Amine (Ed.), Advanced Biosignal Processing, pp. 145-164, 2009.

Journals:

[1]  F. Wendling, K. Ansari-Asl, F. Bartolomei, and L. Senhadji, "From EEG signals to brain connectivity: A model-based evaluation of interdependence measures," Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2009.

[2]  K. Ansari-Asl, L. Senhadji, F. Wendling, and J.J. Bellanger, "Quantitative evaluation of linear and nonlinear methods characterizing interdependencies between brain signals," Physical Review E (Stat. Nonlin. Soft Matter Phys.), vol. 74, 031916, Sept. 2006.

[3]  K. Ansari-Asl, J.J. Bellanger, F. Bartolomei, F. Wendling, and L. Senhadji, "Time-frequency characterization of interdependencies in nonstationary signals. Application to epileptic EEG," IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Eng., vol. 52, no. 7, pp. 1218-1226, July 2005.

Refereed conferences:

[1]  K. Ansari-Asl, G. Chanel, T. Pun, "A channel selection method for EEG classification in emotion assessment based on synchronization likelihood," 15th Eur. Signal Proc. Conf. (Eusipco 2007), Poznan, Poland, Sept. 3-7, 2007.

[2]  G. Chanel, K. Ansari-Asl, T. Pun, "Valence-arousal evaluation using physiological signals in an emotion recall paradigm," 2007 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man and  Cybernetics (SMC 2007), Montreal, Canada, Oct. 7-10, 2007.

[3]  K. Ansari-Asl, L. Senhadji, F. Wendling, and J.J. Bellanger, "Quantitative comparison of  signal analysis methods for characterization of brain functional connectivity," 3rd European Medical & Biological Eng. Conf. (EMBEC'05), Prague, Czech Republic, Nov. 20-25, 2005.

[4]  K. Ansari-Asl , F. Wendling, J.J. Bellanger, and L. Senhadji, "Comparison of two estimators of time-frequency interdependencies between nonstationary signals: application to epileptic EEG," 26th Annual Int. Conf. of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 263-266, San Francisco, USA, Sept. 1-5, 2004.

[5]  K. Ansari-Asl, F. Wendling, J.J. Bellanger, and L. Senhadji, "Suivi de relation en temps et en fréquence dans les signaux SEEG épileptiques. Évaluation de deux estimateurs linéaires," 19th GRETSI Symposium on Signal and Image Processing, vol. 1, pp. 281-4, Paris, France, Sept. 8-11, 2003 (in French).

Other conferences:

[1]  G. Chanel, K. Ansari-Asl, T. Pun, "From thoughts to emotions: emotional assessment using physiological recordings," HUMABIO EU Project Workshop, Basel, Switzerland, Feb.2, 2007.

[2]  K. Ansari-Asl, L. Senhadji, F. Wendling, "Relationship characterization in the time-frequency plane between non-stationary signals: Application to the intra-cerebral epileptic activity," Signal processing day of the French clinical neurophysiology society, Mar.17, 2004, Lille, France.

Theses                                                                                                                         

[1]  K. Ansari-Asl, "Interdependencies characterization between non-stationary signals: application to epileptic SEEG signals," Ph.D. Thesis, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France, Dec. 2005.

[2]  K. Ansari-Asl, "Modeling of electrically stimulated muscle during non-isometric conditions using neural networks," M.Sc. Thesis, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, Sept. 1999.

[3]  K. Ansari-Asl, "Design and implementation of a slot card with its software for representing of the electric signals on the screen of computer (oscilloscope function)," B.Sc. Thesis, University of Semnan, Semnan, Iran, Sept.1995.

Professional Experience                                                                      -
Feb. 2008 – Present            Assistant professor, Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz,Iran.

Sept. 2006 – Aug. 2007       Postdoctoral fellow, Computer Vision and Multimedia 
                                         Lab. (CVML), University of Geneva, Switzerland: study
                                         of classification and synchronization methods for
                                         emotions assessment and understanding using physiological
                                         signals.  

Jan. 2006 – Aug. 2006         Postdoctoral fellow, Signal and Image Processing Lab. (LTSI), 
                                          University of Rennes 1, France: study the different kinds of 
                                          cardiac signals such as ECG and PCG aiming at the
                                          development of new multi-stimulator pacemakers.

Sept. 2004 – Aug. 2005       Temporary assistant professor (ATER in French), Electronic
                                          and Information department, University Institute of 
                                          Technology (IUT) of Rennes, Rennes, France.

Sept.1999 – Jul. 2000          Instructor, Electrical Engineering department, Azad University, 
                                          Dezful, Iran.

2nd Semester 1994-1995      Teaching assistant, University of Semnan, Semnan, Iran.

Nov. 1998                           Internship at Biomedical department, Mostafa Khomeini 
                                           Hospital, Tehran, Iran.

Jul. – Sept. 1994                  Internship at Electronic service, Karun factory of sugar, 
                                           Shoushtar, Iran.

Courses Taught                                                                                                    -

Signals and Systems
Electrical Circuits II
Electronic Circuit I, II
Linear Control Systems
Logic Circuit

Informatics Skills                                                                                                  -

Operating System: Windows, Linux, Nextstep
Programming Language: C/C++, Matlab, Fortran
Software: MSOffice, Electronic circuit analysis packages (Tina, PSpice, OrCAD, …)

Language                                                                                              -

Persian: native
French and English: Fluent
Arabic: Basic knowledge

Award and Honor                                                                                                -

Awarded one of the three Ph.D. scholarships in all biomedical disciplines, offered by Iran ministry of science through a nationwide competition (Konkoor e Eazam 1377), in 1999.