- May 2024: Received Ph.D. student travel award from UMASS BME.
- December 2023: Received a travel grant from SPIE for participation in the SPIE West Conference scheduled to take place in San Francisco in January 2024.
- November 2023: Our research paper “comparing different Machine Learning techniques for experimental data analysis” has been published by arXiv!
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02522
- Obtaining the professional reviewer certification from OPTICA publications
- October 2023: The pre-print version of our submitted paper to Communications Engineering (A Nature Portfolio journal) is now available online. https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3385622/v1
- September 2023: Obtaining EXPLO Experiential Learning and Teaching certification
- August 2023: Finished Biomedical Lead Instructor for pre-college students at Wellesley College (EXPLO Program)
- July 19th, 2023: UMASS, College of Engineering, has interviewed for the Pulse Oximetry project: https://www.umass.edu/engineering/news/moradi-dissertation-award
- May 24th, 2023: Our paper titled “Monte Carlo Simulation of Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy for 3D Modeling of Dental Tissues” has been accepted in Sensors (IF=3.9).
- April 14, 2023: Recognized for excellence in research for the “Pulse Oximetry and Different Skin Tones” project. Received a $1,000 grant from UMASS Center for Research on Families.
- March 2023: Our paper titled “Deep ensemble learning for automated non-advanced AMD classification using optimized retinal layer segmentation and SD-OCT scans” has been published in Computers in Biology and Medicine (IF=7.7).
- March 3rd, 2023: Presented our research in pulse oximetry at the Campus Three Minute Final Competition.
- May 5th, 2022: Presented AMD research at ARVO Virtual Conference, 2022.
- June 2nd, 2022: Presented research on “Multi-Grade AMD Detection with Ensemble Learning on Retina OCT Scans”, Department of Ophthalmology and visual sciences, UMASS Medical School seminar.
- January 24th, 2022: Presented research on “Feasibility of robotic-assisted optical coherence tomography with extended scanning area for pre-transplant kidney monitoring”, SPIE West Photonic Conference, San Francisco.
- January 25th: SPIE/Photonic West Best Student Paper Award Finalist.
- January 2022: Our paper titled: “Feasibility of the soft attention-based models for automatic segmentation of OCT kidney images” has been published in Biomedical Optics Express (IF=3.8).
- September 2020: UMass Dean Fellowship, awarded to 5 Ph.D. Engineering students.
- September 2020: Presented research on “High Temporal Resolution PGA-based Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for Neuroimaging Studies”, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, San Diego.
- July 2019: Merit-based James Southerland Garvey International Scholarship, Wichita State University.
- May 2019: BME MS Scholarship Award (selected among 250 students) –Wichita State University.
- July 2017: Presented research on “Designing and fabricating of programmable Switching High Voltage Power Supply for Nuclear Medicine Devices”, International Conference in Applied Research on Electrical, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Tehran, Iran.
- August 2015: Presented research on “Assessment of radiation dose due to radio frequency emitted from medical high voltage modules”, IUPESM World Congress on Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Toronto, Canada.