Nezamoddini-Kachouie, Nezamoddin
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Educational Background
Research Fellowship - Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, 2012
Postdoc - Biomedical Engineering, Harvard Medical School, 2010
PhD - Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2008
MASc - Electrical and Compuuter Engineering
BASc - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Current Courses
Applied Statistical Analysis (Graduate Course)
Regression Models for Machine Learning (Graduate Course)
Mathematical Statistics (Graduate Course)
Random Signals (Graduate Course)
Statistical Modeling (Undergraduate/Graduate Course)
Probability and Statistics (Undergraduate Course)
Undergrad Research
Professional Experience
Research Fellow 2010-2012
Harvard School of Public Health
Department of Biostatistics
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow 2008-2010
Harvard - MIT, Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST)
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Research Interest Areas
Statistical Modeling
Probabilistic Mapping
Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Data Science/Analysis
Optimization
Signal/Image/Video Processing
Research Interest Fields
Anomaly Detection
Trend Analysis
Denoising
Classification
Clustering
Detection, Segmentation, and Tracking
Research Interest Methods
Regression Analysis
Multivariate Models
Filter Banks
Wavelet Analysis
Linear/Nonlinear Association Factors
Neural Networks
Deep Learning
Bayesian Estimation
Hierarchical Models
Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)
Research Application Areas
Cancer Research
Public Health
Remote Sensing
Climate Change
Ecology
Recent Publications
Monte Carlo ensemble correlation coefficient for association detection
W Deebani, NN Kachouie
Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation 2020
https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2020.1823413
Climate Change Study via the Centennial Trend of Climate Factors
NN Kachouie, OE Onyejekwe
Hydrology 7 (2), 1-12, 2020
Association Factor for Identifying Linear and Nonlinear Correlations in Noisy Conditions
N N. Kachouie, W Deebani
Entropy 22 (4), 440, 2020
Weighted Mutual Information for Aggregated Kernel Clustering
N N. Kachouie, M Shutaywi
Entropy 22 (3), 351, 2020
Discriminant Analysis of Lung Cancer Using Nonlinear Clustering of Copy Numbers
NN Kachouie, M Shutaywi, DC Christiani
Cancer Investigation 38 (2), 102-112, 2020
Geometrical optimisation of a personalised microneedle eye patch for transdermal delivery of anti-wrinkle small peptide
SH Lim, WJ Tiew, J Zhang, PC Ho, NN Kachouie, L Kang
Biofabrication, 2020
Potential impact of OPTN plan in association with donors’ factors on survival times of transplanted kidneys
NN Kachouie, F Hamad
Transplantation Reports 5 (2), 100042, 2020
Potential Impact of Donors’ Factors on Survival Times of Transplanted Hearts and Lungs
F Hamad, NN Kachouie
Transplantation Reports 4 (4), 100035, 2019
Identifying Similarities and Disparities Between DNA Copy Number Changes in Cancer and Matched Blood Samples
NN Kachouie, W Deebani, DC Christiani
Cancer investigation 37 (10), 535-545, 2019
A hybrid method to estimate the full parametric hazard model
F Hamad, NN Kachouie
Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods 48 (22), 5477-5491, 2019
Computer assisted tracking of Chlamydomonas species
Alexandra M Folcik, Timothy C Haire, Kirstin Cutshaw, Melissa Riddle, Catherine Shola, Sararose Nassani, Paul Rice, Brianna Richardson, Nezamoddin Nazamoddini-Kachouie, Andrew George Palmer
Frontiers in Plant Science 10, 1616, 2019
A Weighted Majority Voting based on NMI for Cluster Analysis.
M Shutaywi, NN Kachouie
International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, 2018
Ensemble Correlation Coefficient.
W Deebani, NN Kachouie
International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, 2018
Multivariate models for predicting glacier termini
O Onyejekwe, B Holman, NN Kachouie
Environmental Earth Sciences 76 (23), 807, 2017
Method for detecting voxelwise changes in fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography brain images via background adjustment in cancer clinical trials
L Qin, A Schwartzman, K McCall, NN Kachouie, JT Yap
Journal of Medical Imaging 4 (2), 024006 1, 2017
FDR control of detected regions by multiscale matched filtering
NN Kachouie, X Lin, A Schwartzman
Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation 46 (1), 127-144, 2017
Current Graduate Students - PhD
Mohamed Jaber
Robbie Breininger
Daniel Breininger
Alain Despeignes
Research Alumni (Graduated PhD, MS, and Undergrad Students)
PhD
Wejdan Deebani, 2019
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, College of Science & Arts, King Abdulaziz University
Meshal Shutaywi, 2019
Current Position: Department Head, Mathematics Department, College of Science & Arts, King Abdulaziz University
Farag Hamad, 2019
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Osita Onyejekwe, 2017
Current Position: Lecturer, University of Colorado Boulder
MS
Jason Woulasl, MS, 2012
Current Position: Eastern Florida State College, Melbourne, FL
Nicholas Bruce, MS, 2013
Current Position: Epic, A Software Developer Company, Verona, Wisconsin
Elvira Erhardt, MS, Operations Research, 2014
Current Position: Biostatistician, Mainanalytics, GMBH
Hala Ayta, MS, Operations Research, 2015
Current Position: Statistical Analyst, GASTAT
Nessrin Bukhshim, MS, Operations Research, 2017
Current Position: PhD Student
Faruk Kilinc, MS, Operations Research, 2018
Joshua Sulfridge, MS, Operations Research, 2018
Michelle Novaes-Card, MS, Operations Research
Current Position: Harris Corporation
Jeremy Moore, MS, Operations Research, 2020
Current Position: Harris Corporation
Undergraduate
Juan Eman Johnson, 2012-2013
Current Position: PhD Candidate, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain
Remy Schott, 2014
Current Position: Senior Cyber Engineer, Raytheon
Megan Moreno, 2014
Current Position: Graduate student, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology
Roger Ballard, 2014-2016
Current Position: Software Engineer, YouTube
Marcus Melo, 2015
Current Position: Graduate student, Brazil
Joshua Lear, 2015
Current Position: Software Engineer, Facebook
Jonathan Wamsley, 2015 (Biomath REU)
Katelyn Flaherty, 2015 (Biomath REU)
Brent Allard, 2016
Current Position: Software Engineer, Google
Sally Tan, 2016
Current Position: Data Application Developer, Thales
Nick Namba, 2016
Current Position: Software Engineer, Variphy
Jake Bowers, 2016
Current Position: Data Engineer, BlackRock
Ilya Antonyuk, 2016
Current Position: Graduate student, Boston University
Sararose Nassani, 2016 (Biomath REU)
Current Position: Graduate student, Case Western Reserve University
Miriam Sernik, 2016 (Biomath REU)
Current Position: Northeast Regional Advisor at Hasbara Fellowships
Luke Wiskowski, 2017
Current Position: Software Engineer at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Stefano Verratti, 2017
Jiri Kapralek, 2017
Current Position: Graduate student, Dept. Math Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology
Dylan Keuthan, 2018
Robbie Breininger, 2018-2019
Current Position: PhD studen, Dept. Math Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology
Elizabeth Kurkowski, 2018-2019
Current Position: Graduate student, University of Colorado Boulder
Mahmoud Abouamer, 2018
Daniel Breininger, 2019-2020
Current Position: PhD studen, Dept. Math Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology
Kyle Findley, 2019-2020
Current Position: Data Analyst, Harris Corporation
Mrudul Madaan, 2020
Nichole Choplin, 2020
Jasrayman Thind, 2020