Newcastle University

Between 2007 and 2009, I was with the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK as a research fellow. Between 2009 and 2012, I was with the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University.

My research is in the emerging and highly interdisciplinary fields of biomedical signal processing and neuro-technology. I currently lead research efforts and international collaborations that aim to restore movement and limb sensation to paralyzed patients and patients with amputated limbs using electronic interfaces to the patients’ own brains and muscles. In keeping with this interdisciplinary approach, I hold a visiting appointment in the Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University.

Since 2006, my work has been supported by the Medical Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, Royal Society and Wellcome Trust, UK.

Awards

2006-2008: Cardiff University Overseas Research Students (ORS) Academic Scholarship

2006: Best Paper Award, 3rd Int. BCI Workshop, Graz, Austria

2006: David Douglas Award, South Wales Institute of Engineers

2005: Academic Scholarship, School of Engineering, Cardiff University

Research Interests

Neurotechnology, Biomedical Signal Processing

Current Work

Optimal Feedback Control of a Brain Machine Interface
Myoelectric Prosthetics

For details please visit:

http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/k.nazarpour/research.html

• Nazarpour K, Al-Timemy AH, Bugmann G, Jackson A. A note on the probability distribution function of the surface electromyogram signal. Brain Research Bulletin 2013, 90, 88-91.
• Sanei S, Ferdowsi S, Nazarpour K, Cichocki A. Advances in Electroencephalography Signal Processing. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 2013, 30(1), 170-176.
• Nazarpour K, Barnard A, Jackson A. Flexible cortical control of task-specific muscle synergies. Journal of Neuroscience 2012, 32(36), 12349-12360.
• Nazarpour K, Ethier C, Paninski L, Rebesco JM, Miall RC, Miller LE. EMG prediction from motor cortical recordings via a Non-Negative Point Process Filter. IEEE Transactions Biomedical Engineering 2012, 59(7), 1829-1838.
• Jackson A, Nazarpour K. Motor learning explored with myoelectric and neural interfaces. In: Gollhofer, A., Taube, W., Nielsen, J.B, ed. Routledge Handbook of Motor Control and Motor Learning. Routledge, 2012, pp.71-89.
• Ghaderi F, Nazarpour K, McWhirter JG, Sanei S. Removal of Ballistocardiogram Artifacts Using the Cyclostationary Source Extraction Method. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2010, 57(11), 2667-2676.
• Lo JL, Sanei S, Nazarpour K. An adaptive source-channel coding with feedback for progressive transmission of medical images. International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications 2009, 519417.
• Praamstra P, Kourtis D, Nazarpour K. Simultaneous preparation of multiple potential movements: opposing effects of spatial proximity mediated by premotor and parietal cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 2009, 102(4), 2084-2095.
• Nazarpour K, Praamstra P, Miall RC, Sanei S. Steady-state movement related potentials for brain-computer interfacing. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2009, 56(8), 2104-2113.
• Mohseni HR, Nazarpour K, Wilding EL, Sanei S. The application of particle filters in single trial event-related potential estimation. Physiological Measurement 2009, 30(10), 1101-1116.
• Nazarpour K, Mohseni HR, Hesse CW, Chambers JA, Sanei S. A novel semiblind signal extraction approach for the removal of eye-blink artifcat from EEGs. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2008, 2008, Article no. 98.
• Nazarpour K, Wongsawat Y, Sanei S, Chambers JA, Oraintara S. Removal of the eye-blink artifacts from EEGs via STF-TS modeling and robust minimum variance beamforming. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2008, 55(9), 2221-2231.
• Nazarpour K, Sharafat AR, Firoozabadi SM. Application of higher order statistics to surface electromyogram signal classification. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2007, 54(10), 1762-1769.