Dr. Ghoraani

Dr. Ghoraani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and serves as the Co-Director of the Center for SMART Health at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Before joining FAU, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) from 2012 to 2016. Dr. Ghoraani has been a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Library of Medicine (NLM) since 2023. She actively contributes to the academic community as a reviewer for multiple journals and international conferences and as a grant reviewer for national and international agencies. Dr. Ghoraani holds positions as Associate Editor for both the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics and BioMedical Engineering OnLine and frequently serves as a guest editor for various journals. In addition to her editorial roles, Dr. Ghoraani is deeply involved in professional societies. She has chaired the Women in Signal Processing Committee and the Young Professional Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She also serves as the Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Newsletter and has held significant roles in organizing technical programs for major conferences, including IEEE EMBC, IEEE ICASSP, and IEEE COINS. Throughout her career, Dr. Ghoraani has received numerous accolades, including the Scholar of the Year Award in 2020, the Service and Outreach Award in 2022, the Distinguished Researcher of the Research Park at FAU in 2022, and most recently, the Engineering Educator of the Year from The Engineers' Council in 2024.

Dr. Ghoraani has received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2020. Her research has been supported by federal and state grants from the NIH, NSF, and the Florida Department of Health. Her research primarily focuses on generating clinically relevant engineering solutions to tackle significant bottlenecks in data analytics, with an emphasis on computer-aided clinical decision-making, long-term and continuous health monitoring, remote and personalized therapeutic management, non-stationary and multidimensional signal analysis, adaptive signal feature extraction, and both traditional and deep learning machine learning techniques. Dr. Ghoraani has authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, one book, two book chapters, and holds two patents.

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Postdoc, Cardiac Electrophysiology, Medicine, University of Toronto
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University
M.Sc., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology
B.Sc., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

Deep Learning
Digital Signal Processing
Biomedical Signal Analysis
Numerical and Statistical Analysis of Complex Biosystems
Biomedical signals and Systems Analysis
Computations in Genetic Engineering
Electronics and Biomedical Sensors