I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Melbourne Brain Centre, the University of Melbourne. I work under the supervision of Prof. Anthony Burkitt (NeuroEngineering Laboratory) and Dr. Chris French (Neural Dynamics Laboratory). My primary research interests include Criticality, Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Statistical Machine Learning, and Complex Networks Analysis. My Ph.D. research involves calcium imaging recordings from freely behaving mice using Miniscopes as well as recordings from cultured neuronal networks integrated with traditional silicon computing in a simulated game environment of ’pong’. I am performing computational analysis to understand the underlying mechanisms of information processing and cognition in networks of neurons that are involved in a cognitive task. With a focus on population doctrine during cognition, I am studying the emergence of "critical" dynamics in the hippocampal/in-vitro neuronal networks during cognitively engaging tasks. I am also a part-time data scientist at CorticalLabs which is a startup company based in Melbourne where we work with live biological neuronal cultures integrated with traditional silicon computing. Prior to initiating my PhD, I commenced a Master’s Degree in Bioengineering at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland (2018). During this period, I was a member of the Gräff Lab at Brain Mind Institute. I completed my B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran (2018). As an undergraduate, I was a visiting scholar at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD-MIT). I worked remotely with the Monash Clinical and Imaging Neuroscience Laboratory (Melbourne, Australia) to develop an open-source MATLAB toolbox for external control of transcranial magnetic stimulation devices (MAGIC).