Golabbakhsh

Marzieh Golabbakhsh

Tel: 09131291055
marzgol@gmail.com
Professional Profile
• 3 years experience in electrical engineering in the following fields:
• Biomedical Engineering, Clinical Data Management; Analysis;
      Reporting & Coding, Medical Imaging
• Digital Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Automatic Speech Recognition, Telecommunications, Electronic circuits
• Master in Electrical Engineering
• English, Farsi, Functional Arabic
• Computer Skills: UNIX, Perl, Matlab, Lab View, C,C++, VXML
• Quick learner, Ability to multitask, Flexible and calm

Work Experience

Instructor at khomeinishahr azad university                                                                    2008-2010

Software Programmer (internship)                                                                             2006 
Nuance Communications, Montreal,Canada

Contributed to the development of Nuance’s Directory Assistance (DA) application:
• Developed software for supporting tools and components to the DA application
• Tested and improved software units

Research Assistant                                                                                                2005-2006
McGill University, Telecommunication & Signal Processing Lab, Montreal,Canada

• Implemented Automatic Speech Recognition and Language Modeling with HTK Toolkit
• Investigated different methods of Speaker Adaptation
• Utilized Classification and Decision Theory, Information Theory and Statistics
• Performed Comparative Experimental Study of Naive Bayes and SVM for Text Classification

Research Assistant                                                                                                     2002-2004
University of Manitoba, Biomedical Research Lab, Winnipeg,Canada

 Performed data collection with biological instrumentation amplifiers/filters, different sensors, and custom-made equipment for respiratory acoustical assessment
• Involved analysis of respiratory sounds using digital signal processing techniques, neural networks, adaptive filters, pattern recognition as well as nonlinear identification approaches
• Conducted a MATLAB simulation of automatic detection of patient’s motion with Image Processing techniques

Electrical Engineer                                                                                                 2001-2002
EPRAD Co, Isfahan, Iran

• Prepared Quality Assurance reports
• Indexed electrical engineering periodicals, journals, references
• Implemented tests on PCB and power electronics circuits
• Translated professional documents from English to Farsi

Other Experience

Teaching Assistant                                                                                                2003-2004
University of Manitoba, Microprocessing Lab, Winnipeg,Canada

Education

Graduate studies in Electrical Engineering                                                       2005-2006
McGill University, Montreal,Canada

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering                                                      2002-2005
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg,Canada

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunication)              1998-2002
Isfahan University of Technology, Iran

Publications

Golabbakhsh M, “Respiratory Flow-Sound Relationship and Estimation by Parametric and Nonparametric Methods using Features of Tracheal Sound”, Master thesis
University of Manitoba, 2005.

Golabbakhsh M, Moussavi Z. and Aboofazeli M, “Respiratory Flow Estimation from Tracheal Sound by Adaptive Filters”, IEEE-EMBS Conf Proc, Sept 2005.

Golabbakhsh M., and Moussavi Z., “Relationship between Airflow and Frequency-Based Features of Tracheal Respiratory Sounds”, Proc. IEEE CCECE , pp. 751-4, May 2004.