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Nov 02, 2024 I gave an invited talk titled Common Neural Signature of Sleep and Depression at the life sciences conference 2024 organized by the Scientific Arab Forum.
Sep 16, 2024 I was awarded the 2024 The Neuro - Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prize - International Trainee Prize.
Sep 12, 2024 Our paper Identifying Psychosocial and Ecological Determinants of Enthusiasm In Youth: Integrative Cross-Sectional Analysis Using Machine Learning was published at JMIR Public Health and Surveillance.
Sep 11, 2024 I gave a lecture at the Ibn Sina Neurotech Summer School titled Machine Learning in BCIs and Healthcare.
Sep 11, 2024 Our paper Effect of machine learning models on clinician prediction of postoperative complications: the Perioperative ORACLE randomised clinical trial was published at the British Journal of Anaesthesia.
Jul 16, 2024 Our paper Social vulnerability and surgery outcomes: a cross-sectional analysis was published at BMC Public Health.
Jul 12, 2024 My application for the Canadian Neuroanalytics Scholars Program was accepted for funding.
Jun 20, 2024 I gave a plenary talk at the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry Research Day.
May 10, 2024 I was awarded the CAMH Discovery Fund for the year 2024.
May 02, 2024 I gave a talk at the Canadian Neuroscience Seminars – Post-doc series.
May 01, 2024 I received the Canada Brain Stars Award from the Canadian Association for Neuroscience.
Apr 15, 2024 Applications for Arabs in Neuroscience’s Introduction to Computational Neuroscience summer school are now open.
Apr 14, 2024 I presented a poster titled Shared longitudinal neural representations of sleep, depression, and cognition at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting.
Mar 01, 2024 Our paper Ten simple rules for pushing boundaries of inclusion at academic events was just published.
Feb 10, 2024 Our paper Multi-view representation learning for tabular data integration using inter-feature relationships was just published.
Jan 28, 2024 I participated at the Imbizo Computational Neuroscience Summer School as a Teaching Assistant.
Dec 05, 2023 I presented a poster titled Uncovering the Visual Processing Imbalance in Schizophrenia Using Deep Neural Network Representations at the CVR and VISTA Vision Conference at York University.
Dec 04, 2023 I received the Society of Biological Psychiatry Travel Award.
Dec 01, 2023 Our paper Opposing brain signatures of sleep in task-based and resting-state conditions has been published at Nature Communications
Nov 28, 2023 We have a new preprint of our paper Social Vulnerability and Surgery Outcomes: A Cross-sectional Analysis online on Research Square
Nov 15, 2023 Our paper Reconstructing visual illusory experiences from human brain activity was published in the journal Science Advances
Oct 13, 2023 I gave a talk at the T-CAIREM AI in Medicine conference.
Oct 05, 2023 I gave a talk at the Canadian Computational Neuroscience Spotlight
Oct 02, 2023 I gave a webinar titled “Computational neuroscience and neural modelling” with NeuroPedia
Sep 28, 2023 Arabs in Neuroscience won the IBRO meeting support grant
Sep 22, 2023 We published our ACTFAST-3 clinical trial in JAMA Network Open
Sep 18, 2023 I gave two workshops at the statistics bootcamp organized by American Academy of Neurology - Egypt Student Chapter
Aug 21, 2023 I was invited to give a talk about my work at the American University in Cairo
Aug 18, 2023 Arabs in Neuroscience course “Introduction to Computational Neuroscience” has concluded successfully.
Jul 27, 2023 I presented a poster at the Organization of Human Brain Mapping Conference 2023.
Jul 10, 2023 I am teaching at the project week of the KCNI Summer Academy.
Jun 22, 2023 I gave a lecture on machine learning at the KCNI Summer Academy.
Jun 14, 2023 The preprint of our study Reconstructing visual illusory experiences from human brain activity is now available on BioRxiv
Jun 14, 2023 I gave an oral talk at the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry Research Day titled Sleep and Depression Show Contradicting Neural Signatures During Task-engaged and Resting States.
May 14, 2023 The preprint of our study Sleep-insomnia superposition: opposing brain signatures of sleep in task-based and resting-state conditions is now available on BioRxiv
Apr 29, 2023 I presented a poster at the Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting.
Apr 17, 2023 My poster abstract Shared Neural Representations Between Sleep and Depression and Their Effect on Visual Perception was published at the journal Biological Psychiatry.
Apr 02, 2023 My paper A Modulation Layer to Increase Neural Network Robustness Against Data Quality Issues was accepted at the journal Transactions on Machine Learning Research.
Mar 12, 2023 I attended the COSYNE conference.
Mar 10, 2023 Our initiative Arabs in Neuroscience was just awarded the Simons Foundation SCGB award.
Jan 26, 2023 I attended the CAMH womenmind breakfast.
Dec 14, 2022 I attended the Montreal AI & Neuroscience Conference where I was invited to a panel discussion on the future of NeuroAI.
Nov 16, 2022 I am presenting virtually at the Society for Neuroscience 2022 annual meeting.
Nov 05, 2022 I gave a workshop on whole person modelling at the IBRO-ARC School on Impact of Lifestyle Modification on Neurodegenerative Disorders from Preventive and Therapeutic Perspectives.
Oct 31, 2022 My paper An in vivo assay to study locomotion in Caenorhabditis elegans was recently published in the Journal MethodsX.
Oct 30, 2022 I was selected as a top-reviewer for NeurIPS Conference 2022.
Sep 25, 2022 Check out Arabs in Neuroscience flash talk at the Neuromatch Conference 5.0 titled: Computational Neuroscience in the Arab World.
Sep 25, 2022 Our paper Sex-specific associations between lifetime diagnosis of bipolar disorder and cardiovascular disease: A cross-sectional analysis of 257,673 participants from the UK Biobank was recently published in the Journal for Affective Disorders.
Sep 04, 2022 I served as a teaching assistant at the IBRO-Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo Summer School.
Jul 31, 2022 I had a interview on the Instagram show PhD - The Philosophical Drama about networking and community building in academia.
Jul 10, 2022 I gave an online talk titled “What can human and computer vision reveal to us about brain health?!” at Simply Neurocon Conference 2022.
Jun 13, 2022 Our course Introduction to Computational Neuroscience has kicked off today.
Jun 06, 2022 I became a member of the Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine
May 06, 2022 My application to the womenmind 2022 Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition was successful.
May 05, 2022 I gave an online workshop introducing computational neuroscience to American University of Sharjah.
May 04, 2022 Our Arabs in Neuroscience Initiative was awarded the IBRO Diversity Grant for our upcoming Introduction to Computational Neuroscience Summer School.
Apr 22, 2022 I was selected as a Highlighted Reviewer of ICLR 2022.
Apr 09, 2022 I gave a talk about Computational Neuroscience with Egypt Scholars. Video recording and slides available
Mar 15, 2022 We finally publicly launched the Arabs in Neuroscience Initiative
Dec 06, 2021 I was selected as a teaching assistant for isiCNI 2022
Dec 02, 2021 My mentee Omar Elsherif presented his flash talk at Neuromatch Conference 4.0
Nov 18, 2021 Our paper Machine Learning–Based Predictive Modeling of Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms During 8 Months of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic: Repeated Cross-sectional Survey Study was published at JMIR Mental Health
Aug 02, 2021 I joined TAIK