Functional dedifferentiation of the brain during healthy aging
Rakesh, Divyangana, Kavisha B. Fernando, and Sina Mansour L. "Functional dedifferentiation of the brain during healthy aging." Journal of neurophysiology 123.4 (2020): 1279-1282.
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Career and Education 👨‍🎓
- B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2017
- B.Sc. in Computer Sciences, Sharif University of Technology, 2017
- Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, 2022
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne, 2022–2023
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National University of Singapore, 2023–2024
Other experiences ✨
- 2023: Project Instigator (Cerebro); OHBM Brainhack 2023
- 2023: Hackathon co-chair elect; OHBM Brainhack 2023
- 2022: Project Instigator (Cerebro); Brainhack Global 2022 (Australiasia Hub)
- 2022: Hackathon Organizer; Brainhack Global 2022 (Australiasia Hub)
- 2021: Q&A co-host (volunteer); OHBM Brainhack 2021
- 2020–2021: Chair; IEEE student branch at The University of Melbourne
- 2020: Traintrack tutor; OHBM Brainhack 2020
- 2020: Victorian Section Ambassador; IEEEXtreme 14.0 Programming competition
- 2019–2020: Vice-chair; IEEE student branch at The University of Melbourne
- 2018–2019: Secretary; IEEE student branch at The University of Melbourne
- 2017–2018: Research assistant; Sharif University of Technology (Supervisor: Prof. Hadi Foroughmand)
- 2016–2017: Research Intern; LSIR, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne - EPFL (Supervisors: Prof. Karl Aberer & Dr. Martin Benjamin)
- 2015–2017: Full stack web developer; Maktabkhooneh (part time)
Awards 🌟
- 2023: Awarded the Runner-Up Open Science Trainee Prize from the Neuro-Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation.
- 2022: Awarded the Best Student Paper Prize from the IEEE Victorian Section.
- 2021: Awarded the best poster ECR award at Maths in the Brain 2021.
- 2021: Awarded the Open Science fellowship from the OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group.
- 2021: Awarded the IEEE Special Recognition Award (Student Branch Category) from the IEEE Region 10 (as the branch chair).
- 2020: Awarded the Student Engagement Grant (SEG) 2020 as part of the IEEE student branch University of Melbourne (In collaboration with Dr. Nandakishor Desai, Amount funded: $4,200). This grant partly supported the IEEE Unlock Xtreme 14.0 workshop series.
- 2019: Best poster presentation and graphical abstract, SOBR 2019 student symposium
- 2019: Awarded a GSA grant to support the Programming for Neuroimaging Data Analysis (PNDA) workshop series under SONR (In collaboration with D. Rakesh, Amount funded: $200)
- 2018: Melbourne Research Scholarship for postgraduate research
- 2017: 2nd among participants in nationwide graduate university entrance exam for masters degree in computer sciences
- 23rd in the IEEEXtreme 9.0 worldwide programming contest as a member of team CoDeFX (3rd in Iran)
- 2011: 41 st among 350000 participants in nationwide undergraduate university entrance exam for mathematical sciences
- 2010: Silver medal in 20th national chemistry Olympiad
- Since 2010: Member of the Iranian National Foundation of Elites
- Since 2004: Member of the Iranian National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET)
Publications 🗞️
ABNORMAL BRAIN AGING IN YOUTH WITH SUBCLINICAL PSYCHOSIS AND OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE SYMPTOMS
Cropley, Vanessa, et al. "O2. 3. ABNORMAL BRAIN AGING IN YOUTH WITH SUBCLINICAL PSYCHOSIS AND OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE SYMPTOMS." Schizophrenia Bulletin 46.Suppl 1 (2020): S4.
Brain-Predicted Age Associates With Psychopathology Dimensions in Youths
Cropley, Vanessa, et al. "Brain-Predicted Age Associates With Psychopathology Dimensions in Youths." Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging (2020).
High-resolution connectomic fingerprints: Mapping neural identity and behavior
Mansour L., Sina, et al. "High-resolution connectomic fingerprints: mapping neural identity and behavior." NeuroImage (2021): 117695.
Temporal complexity of fMRI is reproducible and correlates with higher order cognition
Omidvarnia, Amir, et al. "Temporal complexity of fMRI is reproducible and correlates with higher order cognition." NeuroImage (2021): 117760.
Brainhack: Developing a culture of open, inclusive, community-driven neuroscience
Gau, RĂ©mi, et al. "Brainhack: Developing a culture of open, inclusive, community-driven neuroscience." Neuron (2021).
Centering inclusivity in the design of online conferences–An OHBM–Open Science perspective
Levitis, Elizabeth, et al. "Centering inclusivity in the design of online conferences--An OHBM--Open Science perspective." GigaScience (2021).
Connectome spatial smoothing (CSS): Concepts, methods, and evaluation
Mansour L., Sina, et al. "Connectome spatial smoothing (CSS): Concepts, methods, and evaluation." NeuroImage 250 (2022): 118930.
Network communication models narrow the gap between the modular organization of structural and functional brain networks
Seguin, Caio, et al. "Network communication models narrow the gap between the modular organization of structural and functional brain networks." NeuroImage 257 (2022): 119323.
Communication dynamics in the human connectome shape the cortex-wide propagation of direct electrical stimulation
Seguin, Caio, et al. "Communication dynamics in the human connectome shape the cortex-wide propagation of direct electrical stimulation." Neuron 111.9 (2023): 1391-1401.
An open code pledge for the neuroscience community
Smout, Cooper, et al. "An open code pledge for the neuroscience community." Aperture Neuro (2023): Proceedings of the OHBM Brainhack 2021.
Parameter estimation for connectome generative models: Accuracy, reliability, and a fast parameter fitting method
Liu, Yuanzhe, et al. "Parameter estimation for connectome generative models: Accuracy, reliability, and a fast parameter fitting method." Neuroimage 270 (2023): 119962.
Tractography passes the test: Results from the diffusion-simulated connectivity (DiSCo) challenge
Girard, Gabriel, et al. "Tractography passes the test: Results from the diffusion-simulated connectivity (DiSCo) challenge." Neuroimage 277 (2023): 120231.
“Puberty age gap”: new method of assessing pubertal timing and its association with mental health problems
Dehestani, N., Vijayakumar, N., Ball, G., Mansour L, S., Whittle, S., & Silk, T. J. (2023). “Puberty age gap”: new method of assessing pubertal timing and its association with mental health problems. Molecular Psychiatry, 1-8.
Connectomes for 40,000 UK Biobank participants: A multi-modal, multi-scale brain network resource
Mansour L., S., Di Biase, M. A., Smith, R. E., Zalesky, A., & Seguin, C. (2023). Connectomes for 40,000 UK Biobank participants: A multi-modal, multi-scale brain network resource. NeuroImage, 283, 120407.
Talks & conferences đź’ˇ
Emojitalianobot and EmojiWorldBot - New online tools and digital environments for translation into emoji
Poster at Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, Napoli, Italy
DUCKS in a Row: Aligning open linguistic data through crowdsourcing to build a broad multilingual lexicon
Poster at 5th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), Honolulu, Hawaii
Network alignment
Poster at 6th biennial Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference (CanaDAM), Honolulu, Hawaii
Structural Connectome Fingerprinting
Poster at Students of Brain Research (SOBR) 2019 Student Symposium, The Melbourne Brain Centre in Parkville, Victoria, Australia
High-resolution connectivity analyses
Poster at 29th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Organization for Computational Neuroscience (OCNS), Online
Prediction-Identification Landscape for Brain Structure and Connectivity
Poster at ISMRM & SMRT Virtual Conference, Online
High-resolution connectivity; A novel biomarker of brain-behavior associations
Talk at OHBM; Australian Chapter Webinar, Online
Challenges and impacts of spatial smoothing on high-resolution structural connectomes
Poster at OHBM 2021, Online
High-resolution Connectomics
Talk at Melbourne-Berlin Brain Connectivity and Machine Learning Meeting, Online
Connectome-Based Smoothing (CBS) for structural connectomes
Poster at Maths in the Brain 2021, Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University Clayton Campus
Workshop on white-matter tractography
Workshop at Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, Monash University, Clayton Campus
Spectral connectome analysis across modalities and resolutions
Talk at Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting (OHBM 2022), Scottish Event Center, Glasgow, Scotland
Topological Cluster Statistic: Structural connectivity guided fMRI cluster enhancements
Poster at Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting (OHBM 2022), Scottish Event Center, Glasgow, Scotland
An introduction to High-resolution Human Connectomics & its applications
Talk at Neuroanatomy and Tractography Laboratory (Natbrainlab), King's College London
Computational models of High-resolution Human Connectomics, a tale of two disciplines
Talk at Mathematics of The Interactions Between Brain Structure and Brain Functions, MATRIX House, Creswick
Topological Cluster Statistic (TCS): fMRI cluster enhancement using anatomically-guided inference
Poster at Maths in the Brain 2022, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University
Cerebro: One tool to view them all!
Talk at Global Brainhack: Australasia 2022, Sydney, Australia
High-resolution Connectomics, a tale of two disciplines
Talk at Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
Charting the human brain; toward resolution-independent, interpretable, and reusable normative brain models
Talk at Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
Charting the human brain; toward resolution-independent reusable normative brain models
Talk at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Cerebro: One tool to view them all!
Talk at OHBM Brainhack 2023, Montreal, Canada
Connectomes for 40,000 UK Biobank participants: A multi-modal, multi-scale dataset for network neuroscience
Poster at OHBM 2023, Montreal, Canada
Topological Cluster Statistic (TCS): Linking tractography and brain activation to make anatomically-informed inference
Talk at OHBM 2023, Montreal, Canada
Teaching 🎓
Skills 🎯
- Programming:
- Python
- bash
- C/C++
- Matlab
- Javascript
- Git
- Latex
- Web development