Narges Bani Asadi Ph.D. candidate Electrical Engineering Stanford University Advisor: Prof. Wing H. Wong Co-Advisor: Prof. Teresa H. Meng

Contact Information

Education

• Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2006-present
  


• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2006
  


• B.S., Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 2004
  

Research Interests

• Reconfigurable Computing
  


• Machine Learning, Probabilistic Modeling
  


• Computaional Biology, Personalized Genomics
  

Publications

• N. Bani Asadi, T. H. Meng, and W. H. Wong, "Reconfigurable Computing for Learning Bayesian Networks", Proceedings of 16th international ACM/SIGDA symposium on Field programmable gate arrays, Monterey, CA, 2008.
  


• N. Bani Asadi, I. Rish, K. Scheinberg, D.Kanevsky, B. Ramabhadran, "A Bayesian Approach to Learning Sparse Gaussian Markov Networks", Submitted, September 2008.
  


• B. Choi, N. Bani Asadi,and W. H. Wong, "Efficient Learning of Gaussian Networks",In prepration.
  


• R. A. Reijo Pera, N. Bani Asadi et al, "Gene Expression Profiles of Human Inner Cell Mass Cells and Embryonic Stem Cells", submitted 2008.
  


• H.Kakavand, N. Bani Asadi, S. Nagel, "A Statistical Study of Momentum Runs in Financial Markets: Size, Trading Horizon, and Reputation" , in preparation for Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2008.
  


• W. Bridewell, N. Bani Asadi, P. Langley, and L. Todorovski, "Reducing overfitting in process model induction", ICML, Bonn, Germany, 2005.
  

Invited Talks

• Intel, Microarchitecture Research Lab, "Reconfigurable Computing for Personalized Medicine", October 2008.
  


• IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Computational Biology Department, "Learning Sparse Markov Networks in High Dimensional Problems with Application to fMRI Analysis", September 2008.
  


• NextBio, "Reconfigurable Computing for Systems Biology", April 2008.
  


• Stanford University Integrative Cancer Biology Program, "Bayesian Structure Learning on Berkeley Emulation Engine 2", June 2007.
  

Links

• Stanford University
  


• Stanford EE Department
  


• Stanford Bio-X Program
  


• Wong Lab
  


• University of Tehran
  



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• Persian Student Association at Stanford University