Farshad Shahi

Biography

From my childhood, any question about the brain has made me excited and my early experiences in the field of programming and robotics taught me many things about information processing and reinforcement learning during junior school. Though at last, I found big differences between the decision-making of live organisms and robots; Life is based on uncertainty and noise.

I had been at the Brain and Spinal Injury Research Center, International Neuroscience Institute of I.R Iran between 2014-2018 and earned a lot of in-vivo experiences, especially in the field of neurosciences like brain ischemia surgery and brain stereotaxic, moreover many general modeling and treatment like wound healing and tumor implantation and rutin animal caring.

While my master of sciences in genetics, I was interested in movement circuits in the brain. I had started a project on glial functions and mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease at the National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB). After a lot of challenges, I became skilled in primary glial cell culture and cell and molecular techniques.

I focused on synaptic dysfunctions and the roles of glial cells in neurodegenerative diseases. From my point of view, the present experimental sciences need integrated information for understanding a complex system like the brain. So we need new models for leading the experiments. My dissertation showed me that we need dynamic signals of different cell types of a region simultaneously to decrease the uncertainty of reality. Now in the age of big data, we need new models for describing brain functions and diseases. To achieve my goals, I'm learning python and brain imaging.

I am always eager to work with new people and teams. By doing teamwork in solving problems, I always learn new and unique ideas. My biggest strength is being an idea developer and project manager. Furthermore, I am an independent scientist with great communication skills who could do best in multidisciplinary research. I hope that by taking a good position in Ph.D. I keep my scientific life sharp and productive. Watching scientific online courses and reading the latest articles from my favorite journals with music and sport are my hobbies. My long landscape in science is to be a pioneer in brain science and try to expand the edges of neurosciences.

These days I try to become an entrepreneur in the field of data sciences and I work hard for it.