Download Name: Adham Atyabi

Name: Adham Atyabi
Nationality: Iran
Email Address: [email protected]
[email protected]
Current Address: Child Study Center, Yale University, 40 Temple St, Suite 7D, New Haven, CT, 06510,
USA.
Current Status: PostDoctoral Research Associate, Child Study Center, Yale University
Adjunct Research Fellow, CSEM, Flinders University of South Australia (Australia)
Research Interests:
1. EEG based Brain Computer Interface (BCI).
2. Machine Learning
3. Swarm and Cognitive Robotics
4. Autonomous Mission Planning and Management
5. Evolutionary Optimization
Education Background:
PhD: Doctor of Philosophy from Flinders University, 07/2009-09/2013. Thesis title: “Evolutionary
Optimization of Brain Computer Interface: Doing More with Less”.
M.Sc: Master of IT (by research) in Multimedia University of Malaysia (MMU), 02/2007-02/2009. Thesis
title: “Navigating agents in Uncertain Environments using Particle Swarm Optimization”
B.Sc: Bachelor of Computer Engineering (Software) in Azad University of Mashhad- Iran, 06/199702/2003. Thesis title: “Imitation of human speech”.
Publications and Research Experiences:
Refereed Book Chapters
1. A. Atyabi & S. Nefti-Meziani 2014, Applications of Computational Intelligence to Robotics and
Autonomous Systems, in: PLAMEN, A (ed.), Handbook on Computational Intelligence, World
Scientific, Accepted.
2. A. Atyabi & S. Samadzadegan, 2011. Particle Swarm Optimization: A Survey. In Applications of
Swarm Intelligence. Applications of Swarm Intelligence: Nova Publishers, pp. 167-178.
3. A. Atyabi, M. Luerssen, S.P. Fitzgibbon & D.M.W. Powers, 2013. The use of Evolutionary Algorithmbased methods in EEG based BCI systems, In Swarm Intelligence for Electric and Electronic
Engineering, pp. 326-344.
4. T.A. Anderson, Z. Chen, Y. Wen, M.K. Milne, A. Atyabi, K. Treharne, T. Matsumoto, X. Jia, M.H.
Luerssen, T.W. Lewis, et al., 2012. Thinking Head MulSeMedia: A Storytelling Environment for
Embodied Language Learning. In Multiple Sensorial Media Advances and Applications: New
Developments in MulSeMedia. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global, pp. 182-203.
Refereed Journal Papers
1. A. Atyabi & S. Nefti-Meziani, Subject Transfer: Implication of transferring EEG expertise among
heterogeneous datasets, to be submitted.
2. M. N. Ab Wahab, S. Nefti-Meziani & A. Atyabi, Morphological Particle Swarm Optimization,
Evolutionary Computation, MITPress, to be submitted, 2016.
3. M. N. Ab Wahab, S. Nefti-Meziani & A. Atyabi, Implication of dynamic behavior adjustment on
overall performance of PSO, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, to be submitted, 2016.
4. A. Atyabi, M. N. Ab Wahab, & S. Nefti-Meziani, Comparison between Conventional and Evolutionary
Algorithms in Mobile Robot Path Planning, PlosOne, to be submitted, 2016.
5. A. Atyabi, Mixture of autoregressive features and its implication on EEG classification, Expert Systems
with Applications, Elsevier, Under Review, 2016.
6. M.E. Giannaccini, C. Xiang, A. Atyabi, L. Al Abeach, S. Nefti-Meziani, and S. Davis, A Soft
Lightweight Pneumatic Continuum Robot Arm with decoupled Variable Stiffness and Positioning,
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Under Review, 2016.
7. A. Atyabi, M. Luerssen, S.P. Fitzgibbon, T. Lewis & D.M.W. Powers, Reducing training requirements
for brain-computer interfaces through evolutionary dimension reduction and subject transfer,
Neurocomputing, Elsevire, Under Review, 2016.
8. H.R. Tavakoli, A. Atyabi, Antti Rantanen, Seppo J. Laukka, Samia Nefti-Meziani, & Janne Heikkilä,
Predicting the valence of a scene from observers' eye movements, PLOS One, 10 (9), e0138198, 2015.
9. A. Zaeim, S. Nefti-Meziani, & A. Atyabi, Application of distributed lighting control architecture in
dementia-friendly smart homes, International Journal of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence
(IJARAI), 4(8), pp. 42-49, 2015.
10. M. N. Ab Wahab, S. Nefti-Meziani & A. Atyabi, A Comprehensive Review on Swarm Optimization
Algorithms, PLOS One, 10 (5): e0122827, 2015.
11. A. Atyabi, T. F. Anderson, K. Treharne, R. Leibbrandt, & D. M. W. Powers, Magician Simulator: From
Simulation to Robot Teaming, Magician Simulator: From Simulation to Robot Teaming. Journal of
Next Generation Information Technology (JNIT), Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 44-61, 2013.
12. A. Atyabi, M. Luerssen, S.P. Fitzgibbon & D.M.W. Powers, PSO-Based Dimension Reduction of EEG
Recordings: Implications for Subject Transfer in BCI, Neurocomputing, Elsevier, Vol. 119, pp. 319331, 2013.
13. A. Atyabi & D.M.W. Powers, Review of classical and heuristic-based navigation and path planning
approaches. International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology (IJACT), Vol. 5, pp. 114, 2013.
14. A. Atyabi, S.P. Amnuaisuk, & C.K. Ho, Navigating a robotic swarm in an uncharted 2D landscape,
Applied Soft Computing 10, Elsevier, Vol. 10, Issue 1, pp. 149-169, 2010.
15. A. Atyabi, S.P. Amnuaisuk, & C.K. Ho, Applying Area Extension PSO in Robotic Swarm, J Intell
Robot System, Springer, Vol. 58, Issue 3-4, pp. 253-285, 2010.
Refereed Conference Papers
1. A. Atyabi & D.M.W. Powers, Cooperative Area Extension of PSO Transfer Learning vs. Uncertainty in
a simulated Swarm Robotics. In IEEE 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control,
Automation and Robotics (ICINCO) Iceland, pp. 177-184, 2013.
2. A. Atyabi, S.P. Fitzgibbon, & D.M.W. Powers, Multiplication of EEG samples through Replicating,
Biasing, and Overlapping, Brain Informatics BI’12, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp.
209-219, 2012.
3. A. Atyabi, M. Luerssen, S.P. Fitzgibbon, & D.M.W. Powers, The Impact of PSO based Dimension
Reduction on EEG classification, Brain Informatics BI’12, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
pp. 220-231, 2012.
4. A. Atyabi, M. Luerssen, S.P. Fitzgibbon, & D.M.W. Powers, Adapting Subject-Independent TaskSpecific EEG Feature Masks using PSO, The 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational
Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2012) , pp. 1166-1172, 2012.
5. A. Atyabi, M. Luerssen, S.P. Fitzgibbon, & D.M.W. Powers, Evolutionary feature selection and
electrode reduction for EEG classification, The 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational
Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2012), pp. 209-216, 2012.
6. A. Atyabi, M. Luerssen, S.P. Fitzgibbon, & D.M.W. Powers, Dimension Reduction in EEG Data using
Particle Swarm Optimization, The 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE
WCCI 2012) , pp. 1158-1165, 2012 (Nominated for best student paper award by CEC-WCCI2012).
7. A. Atyabi M. Luerssen, S.P. Fitzgibbon, & D.M.W. Powers, Biasing the Overlapping and NonOverlapping Sub-Windows of EEG recording, The 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational
Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2012), pp. 741-746, 2012.
8. D.M.W. Powers & A. Atyabi, The Problem of Cross-Validation: Averaging and Bias, Repetition and
Significance, The Spring World Congress on Engineering and Technology (SCET), pp. 93-97, 2012.
9. D.M.W. Powers, A. Atyabi & Anderson, T.A., MAGIC Robots - Resilient Communications: A
Guaranteed Redundant Expansible Mesh built on Unreliable Media, The Spring World Congress on
Engineering and Technology (SCET), pp. 591-594, 2012.
10. A. Atyabi & D.M.W. Powers, The impact of segmentation and replication on non-overlapping windows:
an EEG study. Second International Conference on Information Science and Technology, ICIST’12, pp.
668-674, 2012.
11. A. Atyabi & D.M.W. Powers, The Use of Area Extended Particle Swarm Optimization (AEPSO) in
Swarm Robotics. Eleventh International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision
(ICARCV 2010), pp. 591-596, 2011.
12. A. Atyabi, S.P. Fitzgibbon, & D.M.W. Powers, Multiplying the Mileage of Your Dataset with
Subwindowing. Brain Informatics BI’11, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6889, pp.
173-184, 2011.
13. A. Atyabi, T.A. Anderson, K. Treharne, & D.M.W. Powers, 2011. Magician Simulator. Eleventh
International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2010), pp. 2479-2484,
2011.
14. A. Atyabi & S.P. Amnuaisuk, C.K. Ho, Effectiveness of a cooperative learning version of AEPSO in
homogeneous and heterogeneous multi robot learning scenario. The 2008 World Congress on
Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), pp. 3889-3896, 2008.
15. A. Atyabi & S.P. Amnuaisuk, Particle swarm optimization with area extension (AEPSO). IEEE
Congress of Evolutionary Computation CEC'07, Stamford University, Singapore, pp. 1970-1976, 2007.
16. A. Atyabi, S.P. Amnuaisuk & C.K. Ho, Effects of communication range, noise and help request signal
on particle swarm optimization with area extension (AEPSO). The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology ACM, pp. 85-88, 2007.
17. A. Atyabi, S.P. Amnuaisuk & C.K. Ho, Particle Swarm Optimizations: A Critical Review, Proceeding
of Conf IKT07, Third conference of Information and Knowledge Technology, Ferdowsi University, pp.
1-7, Iran, 2007.
18. A. Atyabi & A. Kiani, Diagnosis using human being Chromosome, Proceeding of 4th symposium of
computer science, Azad University of Najafabad, Isfahan ([email protected]), Iran, 2000.
Technical Reports
1. Cloud mapping of unknown environment, Gamma Programme, 2013
2. Target tracking and collision avoidance, Gamma Programme, 2013
3. Autonomous navigation and motion planning, Gamma Programme, 2014
4. Review of swarm intelligence methods, Gamma Programme, 2014
5. Review of state of the art navigation and motion planning approaches, Gamma Programme, 2014
6. Swarm intelligence based algorithm development for UGV control, Gamma Programme, 2015
7. Review of mission planning and mission management systems from UAV, UGV, and AUV platforms,
Gamma Programme, 2015
8. Search and rescue drone, Gamma Programme, 2015
9. Final Report, Gamma Programme, 2015
Poster Presentation
1. A. Atyabi, N. Hodder, J. Attard, & D.M.W. Powers, Hybrid World Robot Simulation, Poster
presentation in Thinking Head10 symposium, Flinders Adelaide, Australia, 2010.
2. A. Atyabi & D.M.W. Powers, S.P. Fitzgibbon, EEG Signal Classification, Poster presentation in
HCSnet09, Sydney, Australia, 2009.
3. A. Atyabi, Robot Navigation with Enhanced Versions of Particle Swarm Optimization, Poster
presentation in Thinking Head09 symposium, Brisbane, Australia, 2009.
Projects
1. 2015 Autonomous Systems Underpinning Research (ASUR), £37k
2. 2013-2015 Growing Autonomous Mission Management Applications (GAMMA), £ 9.1 Million
3. 2011-2012 BIGASC - an audiovisual corpus of Australian English (Austalk)
4. 2009-2010 Magic 2010 Competition
Awards and Scholarships
1. Chris Marlin Postgraduate Student Publication Prize in Computer Science, Engineering and
Mathematics (Flinders University of South Australia, Australia, April 2014).
2. Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence (Flinders University of South Australia,
Australia, April 2014).
3. Academic Excellence Award (Postgraduate) (at the State Governor's Awards Ceremony organized by
Education Adelaide, 2013, Australia, October 2013).
4. Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (EIPRS) (Flinders University of South
Australia, Australia, July 2009).
5. Flinders Privately Funded Scholarship or Stipend Top-up, Jan 2010-Feb 2010.
Also nominated for:
 CISA's International Student of the Year Award.
 best student paper award in WCCI2012
References
1. Prof. David M. W. Powers. School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics (CSEM),
Flinders University, Email: ([email protected]), Contact Number: (+61 8 82013663).
2. Dr Denise de Vries, School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics (CSEM), Flinders
University, Email: ([email protected]), Contact Number: (+61 8 82013639).
3. Prof. Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk. School of computing and Informatics, Institut Teknologi Brunei,
Email: ([email protected]), Contact Number: (+600199871162).
4. Dr. Martin Luerssen. School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics (CSEM), Flinders
University, Email: ([email protected]), Contact Number: (+61 8 82013650).
Professional Engagements:
1. Keynote speaker in SkyTech 2015 event in London (http://www.skytechevent.com/#!universal/cgin)
2. Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Neuroscience and Behavioral Science
3. Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Information Engineering (IJIE)
4. Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computational Science, Information
Technology and Control Engineering (IJCSITCE).
5. Member of the Editorial Board of the Current Advances in Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) (2013-2014).
6. Member of the Technical Committee of the Special session on Smart Workspace.(SoSWS 2015) which
is part of the 19th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES 2015)
(Bangkok, Thailand, Thailand, November 2015).
7. Member of the Technical Committee of the 4th International Conference on Multimedia Technology
(ICMT 2015) (Sydney, Australia, Australia, January 2015).
8. Member of the Technical Committee of International Neural Network Society Winter Conference
(INNS-WC'14) (Brunei, Brunei, December 2014).
9. Member of the Technical Committee of the International Conference on Smart Electronics and
Communication (SEC2014) (Dalian, China, China, August 2014).
10. Member of the Technical Committee of NICA 2014: Nature Inspired Computing and its Applications
(Johor, Malaysia, Malaysia, June 2014).
11. Member of the Technical Committee of the International Conference on Automatic Control Theory and
Application (ACTA 2014) (Bangkok, Thailand, June 2014).
12. Casual review for PlosOne journal
13. Casual review for Elsevier Expert Systems With Applications
14. Casual review for Elsevier Applied Soft Computing
15. Casual review for IEEE Journal of Signal Processing Letters.
16. Casual review for IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation.
17. Casual review for IEEE Transaction on Neural Network and Learning Systems.
18. Casual review for Scientific Research and Essays.
19. Casual Review for International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP)
20. Review of Swarm Intelligence for Electric and Electronic Engineering book.
21. Reviewer of 2nd International Conference on Electronic & Mechanical Engineering and Information
Technology (EMEIT 2012).
22. Reviewer of The 4th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology(ICBEB
2015)
23. Project manager and supervisor of simulation team of Flinders robotic team (Magician) in Magic 2010
competition.
24. PhD student Representative of Flinders in Australian Computer Society (ACS) 2010-2012.
25. University Relation Manager of Young IT (YIT-ACS) in South Australia 2011.
26. IEEE Member.
Honors & Achievements:
 Chris Marlin Postgraduate Student Publication Prize in Computer Science, Engineering and
Mathematics (Flinders University of South Australia, Australia, April 2014).
 Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence (Flinders University of South Australia,
Australia, April 2014).
 Academic Excellence Award (Postgraduate) (at the State Governor's Awards Ceremony organized by
Education Adelaide, 2013., Australia, October 2013).
 Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (EIPRS) (Flinders University of South
Australia, Australia, July 2009).
 Member of Flinders Robotic team (Magician) in Magic 2010 competition (Announced as one of the top
5 teams in the world by the competition authorities)
 Taking 4th place in ACM team in Azad University of Mashhad in 2001
 Taking 4th place in ACM team in Azad University of Mashhad in 2002
 Member of ROBOCOP team (Simulation of FIFA) in Azad University of Mashhad in 2002
Work Experiences:
1. Postdoctoral Research Assistantship at Salford University, 2013-2016.
2. Adjunct Research Fellowship at Flinders University of south Australia, 2013-2017.
3. Teaching Assistantship at Flinders University: Demonstrator for Statistic and Fundamental of
Computing 2010-2013.
4. Teaching Assistantship at Flinders University: Tutoring for Computer Programming 1 (Java) and
Project Management 2011-2013.
5. Teaching Assistantship at Flinders University: Tutoring for Interactive Computer Systems - 2013.
6. Research Assistant in AusTalk Project at Flinders University - 2012.
7. Trading manager of Design & Engineering Bnum Company (Bnum Co.) (2006)(Full time)
8. Trading manager of Amm Business Machine Company (ABM Co.) (2005-2006)(Full time)
9. Hardware manager of Amm Business Machine Company (ABM Co.) (2004-2005)(part time)
10. Employer of Sazman Sabt Asnad Va Amlak Khorasan in computer part (2004-2005)(As Military
service)
11. Software/hardware employer of Amm Business Machine Company (ABM Co.) (2000-2001)(part time)
12. Software employer of Amm Business Machine Company (ABM Co.) (1999-2000)(part time)
Programming Languages and toolboxes
1. Matlab
2. Java
3. C++
4. EEGLab