Newcastle University

Background

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Bioelectronics

Qualifications

PhD (Cardiff), MSc (KNTU Tehran), and BSc (KNTU Tehran) all in Electrical Engineering

Previous Positions

Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, 2007-2009

Memberships

IEEE

SfN

Grants

2012: Principal Investigator, Royal Society

     “Recursive Estimation of Higher Order Statistics for Hand Prosthesis Control”

2011-2013: Principal Investigator, Leverhulme Trust

      “Imaging and optimisation techniques for co-adaptive myoelectric prosthetics”

2010-2012: Co-Investigator, Wellcome Trust

      “Optimal control of neuromotor interfaces”

2010: Principal Investigator, Wellcome Trust VIP Fellowship

       “EMG prediction from motor cortical recordings via a non-negative point process filter”

2006-2008: Research Investigator, Leverhulme Trust 

       “Hybrid factorisation – BSS approach for BCI”

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, 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 2011, PP(99), 1.
• Nazarpour K, Jackson A. Biomimetic and biofeedback approaches for brain machine interface. In: APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference 2010. 2010, Singapore: APSIPA.
• 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.