Courses

I am teaching two neuroscience courses at upper undergraduate and one course at graduate level in spring and fall semesters as a part of initiative to start a neuroscience curriculum at Electrical Engineering Department in Sharif University of Technology. I also teach upper undergraduate course Foundations of Biomedical Engineering for BME majors.

Foundations of Systems and Computational Neuroscience (Foundations Neuro) - Fall Semesters

This is an upper-level undergraduate course on biological and computational principles in neuroscience. Students will learn the basic physiology of neurons and neural circuits, neuroanatomy and its relation to behavior in primate nervous system. For each topic they also learn the mathematical models of neurons, circuits and behavior.

Prerequisites: Probability theory, Signals and Systems, Differential Equations, Electronic Circuits I

References:

  1. Principles of Neural Science,
    Fifth Edition, Kandel et al
  2. Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems, Dayan and Abbott

Advance Neuroscience (Current Topics in Systems and Computational Neuroscience) - Spring Semesters

This is an graduate level course on biological and computational principles in neuroscience. As a sequel of the Foundations Neuro the students will get a more focused review by of key papers multiple neural systems ranging from perceptual and motor domain to decision making, motivation and attention.

The course consists of lectures and weekly homeworks for analyzing data and simulations related each lecture.

Prerequisites: Foundations Neuro

References:
  1. Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition, Kandel et al
  2. Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain 4th Edition, Bear et al
  3. Fundamentals of Computational Neuroscience 2nd Edition, Trappenberg
  4. Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems, Dayan and Abbott

Neuroscience Laboratory Course - Spring Semesters

This is an upper-level undergraduate laboratory course covering various data acquisition and data analysis techniques in cognitive and systems neuroscience.

Prerequisites: Foundations Neuro

Foundations of Biomedical Engineering - Fall Semesters

This is an upper-level undergraduate course which serves to introduce students with the fundamentals needed to understand the various concepts and techniques used in the BME field including basics of cell physiology, electrical and volume conduction properties of live tissue and basics of techniques such as EEG, EMG and EKG. The course also introduces state-of-the-art topics in instrumentation, genetic engineering and imaging using student presentations.