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My name is Ahmed Eladly. I am a neuroengineer with expertise in neural stimulation, small animal surgeries, and advanced mathematical and statistical analysis of neural data. I did my PhD in information and communication technologies under the tutelage of Prof. Antoni Ivorra in the Biomedical Electronics Research Group BERG at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. Prior to this I obtained my Masters in bioengineering degree from the University College Dublin. I was trained at the Surface Engineering Lab led by Prof. Denis Dowling.

I am a research scientist at the Vestibular Neuroscience Lab headed by Prof. Larry Hoffman at UCLA, where my research focuses on using Bayesian inference to model sensory information processing in the vestibular system in animals. Before this, I held a postdoc position at the University of Manchester where I used computational analysis methods and animal models to validate a closed-loop deep brain stimulatior for neuromodulation applications in collaboration with a Spanish BCI start-up called INBRAIN Neuroelectronics.
I like spending time with my wife and when I am not doing that I like to study math and read computer code.

My research interests include:

1- Sensorimotor processing.
2- Computational and biological learning and inferencing.
3- Brain computer interfaces.
4- Advanced probabilistic machine learning methods for neural data analysis and modeling.
5- Decision making under uncertainty.


### Skills

1- Neurostimulation and recording in awake and anesthetized animals
2- Behavioral animal testing
3- Deep learning frameworks (BNN,CNN,RNN,VAE,GANs,RL,SNN) for modeling and decoding of
neural signals (Tensorflow-Keras, Pytorch)
4- Probabilistic machine learning (TFP,JAX, Pyro, pymc, scikit-learn) .
5- Computational and biological Inferencing (Monte Carlo Markov Chains, variational, normalized flow).


### Academic Genealogy

My academic tree dates back to as far as 1943:
>José García Santesmases (physics school/department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1943)
> Antonio Vaquero Sanchez (physics school/department Universidad Complutense de Madrid, year unknown)
> Jordi Aguiló Llobet (UAB, year unknown)
> Antoni Ivorra Cano (UPC, 2005)
> Ahmed Eladly (UPF, 2021)


### Research Highlights


- **Interleaved intramuscular stimulation with minimally overlapping electrodes evokes smooth and fatigue resistant forces.** [2020 J. Neural Eng Aug 25;17(4):046037.]( https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/aba99e)
A. Eladly, J. Del Valle, J. Minguillon, B. Mercadal, L. Becerra-Fajardo, X. Navarro, A. Ivorra

- **Charge and topography patterned lithium niobate provides physical cues to fluidically isolated cortical axons**
[ Applied Physics Letters, vol. 110, no. 5, p. 053702, 2017 ](https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4975304)
D. Kilinc, A. Blasiak, M. Baghban, N. Carville, A. Al-Adli, R. Al-Shammari, J. Rice, G. Lee, K. Gallo and B. Rodriguez

### Under preparation

- **Novel mechanically-flexible, graphene-based, 8-channel, microelectrodes for simultaneous recording and electrical stimulation of deep brain microstructures**
A. Eladly, N. Ria, E. Masvidal-Codina, X. Illa, A. Guimerà-Brunet, J.A Garrido , K. Kostarelos , R.C. Wykes,

- **Mapping the continuum of Spreading Depolarisation induced haemodynamic responses in the post-stroke brain using graphene micro-transistor arrays and blood flow imaging**
S. M. Flaherty, A. Eladly, K. Hills, J. Merlini, E. Masvidal-Codina, E. Fernandes, X. Illa, E. Prats-Alfonso, J. Meents, C. Jeschke, K. Kostarelos, S. M. Allan, J. A. Garrido, A. Guimerà-Brunet, R.C. Wykes
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