Curriculum Vitae

 

SAIF AHMAD

University of Ottawa

Faculty of Medicine

Home Address:

Apartment # 411

91 Valley Stream Drive

Nepean, ON

K2H 9G8, CANADA

Office Address:

Room # 6371

Ottawa General Hospital

501 Smyth Road 6NW-6356

Ottawa, ON

K1H 8L6, Canada

Contact Information:

Office: +1 613.737.8899 Extension: 73262

Fax: +1 613.737.8668

E-Mail: sahmad@toh.on.ca

Web: www.saifahmad.com

Education

PhD

MSc

BEng

Computer Science, University of Surrey, UK, June 2007.

Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK, October 2001.

Electrical Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, India, August 1996.

Appointments

1.       Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada, June 2006 – Present.

2.       Electrical Engineer, Tata Chemicals Ltd., India, May 1997 – September 2000.

Research Summary

Physiologic systems exhibit great complexity and variety in health and illness. The temporal behaviors and structural patterns characterizing these systems defy the laws of linearity, reductionism, and classical homeostasis. The study of physiologic systems based on theories and insights adapted from the study of complex systems, for example, nonlinear dynamics, fractals, and “chaos theory”, promises to have a far-reaching influence on biology and medicine. My specific focus is on this emerging area of biomedical research which involves the prediction, diagnosis, and prognosis of life threatening diseases such as congestive heart failure, lung cancer, leukemia, sepsis and septic shock, based on the development, application, and evaluation of concepts and computational paradigms derived from complex systems science.  

Publications

S. Ahmad, S. Flanagan, L. McIntyre, T. Ramsay, D. Fergusson, D. Maziak, F.M. Shamji, R.S. Sundaresan, L. Huebsch, A.J.E. Seely, “Early detection of infection with continuous heart rate variability analysis in neutropenic patients,” Journal of Critical Care (Elsevier) 23 (2): 266, June 2008.

 

S. Ahmad, and A.J.E Seely, "Cardiopulmonary Variability During Staged Incremental Exercise Utilizing a Novel Continuous Individualized Multiorgan Variability Analysis (CIMVA) System," Journal of Critical Care (Elsevier) 22 (4): 338-339, December 2007.

 

A. Popoola, S. Ahmad, and K. Ahmad, "Multiscale Wavelet Preprocessing for Fuzzy Systems," IEEE Congress on Computational Intelligence Methods and Applications (CIMA 05), Istanbul, Turkey, December 2005.

 

A. Popoola, S. Ahmad, and K. Ahmad, "A Fuzzy-Wavelet Method for Analyzing Non-Stationary Time Series," Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing (RASC), Nottingham, UK, December 16-18, 2004.

 

K. Ahmad, T. Taskaya, D. Cheng, L. Gillam, S. Ahmad, H. Traboulsi, and J. Nankervis, "FinGrid: Financial Information Grid – an ESRC e-Social Science Pilot Project for the Financial Markets," Proceedings of UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM), Nottingham, UK, August 31-September 3, 2004.    <= Presentation

 

S. Ahmad, T. Taskaya, and K. Ahmad, "Summarizing Time Series: Learning Patterns in ‘Volatile’ Series," In Yang Z.R., Everson R., Yin H. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL), Exeter, UK, volume 3177 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Heidelberg: © Springer-Verlag, Germany, August 25-27, 2004.    <= Presentation

 

S. Ahmad, P. Oliviera, and K. Ahmad, "Summarization of Multimodal Information," Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Lisbon, Portugal, May 26-28, 2004.    <= Presentation

 

K. Ahmad. T. Taskaya, D. Cheng, P. Manomaisupat, S. Ahmad, L. Gillam, H. Trablousi, and M. Casey, "Fundamental Data to SATISFI the Chartist," The Technical Analyst Magazine, UK, April 2004.

 

K. Ahmad, D. Cheng, T. Taskaya, S. Ahmad, L. Gillam, P. Manomaisupat, H. Traboulsi, and A. Hippisley, "The mood of the (financial) markets: In a corpus of words and of pictures," Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference, Lancaster University, UK, March 28-31, 2003.

 

L. Gillam, K. Ahmad, S. Ahmad, M. Casey, D. Cheng, T. Taskaya, P. Oliveira, and P. Manomaisupat, "Economic News and Stock Market Correlation: A Study of the UK Market," Proceedings of the Workshop on Making Money in the Financial Services Industry, at the 6th International Conference on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering (TKE), Nancy, France, August 28-30, 2002.    <= Presentation

Doctoral Thesis (PhD)

S. Ahmad, "A Temporal Pattern Identification and Summarization Method for Complex Time Serial Data," Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Surrey, UK, June 2007.

Other Reports and Presentations

S. Ahmad, and A.J.E Seely, "Cardiopulmonary Variability During Staged Incremental Exercise Utilizing a Novel Continuous Individualized Multiorgan Variability Analysis (CIMVA) System," Poster Presentation at the 6th International Conference on Complexity in Acute Illness (ICCAI), Long Beach, California, USA, October 5-7, 2007.

 

S. Ahmad, A. Popoola, and K. Ahmad, "Wavelet-based Multiresolution Forecasting," UniS Technical Report, University of Surrey, UK, June 2005.

 

S. Ahmad, and K. Ahmad, "An Automatic Analysis of Volatile Financial Time Series," Poster Presentation at the House of Commons, under the auspices of Presentations by Britain’s Younger Scientists, Engineers and Technologists at the House of Commons, London, UK, March 15, 2004.

 

K. Ahmad, and S. Ahmad, "Brand Protection: Comparing the Provenance of two Time Series," A study performed for Reuters PLC, London, UK, November 21, 2003.

Research Projects (June 2006 - Present)

THRIVE - Temperature and Heart Rate Investigation along with Variability Evaluation

 

WAVE – Weaning and Variability Evaluation

 

VAREX – Cardiopulmonary Variability During Exercise

Professional Activities  

Presentations at Professional Meetings

2007

Seventh Annual OHRI Research Day, Hellenic Banquet Centre, Ottawa, Canada (presenter).

2007

International Conference on Complexity in Acute Illness, Long Beach, California, USA (presenter).

2004

 

International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, Exeter, UK (presenter).

2004

 

PhD Conference, Department of Computing, University of Surrey, UK (presenter).

2003

 

PhD Conference, Department of Computing, University of Surrey, UK (presenter).

2002

International Conference on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering, Nancy, France (presenter).

 

Invited Presentations

Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India (2008).

House of Commons (British Parliament), London, UK (2004).

Reuters PLC, London, UK (2003).

 

HONOURS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND AWARDS

Ottawa Health Research Institute (OHRI) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Canada, June 2006 – Present.

Department of Computing Merit Scholarship, University of Surrey, UK, January 2002 – December 2005.

Winner, PhD Conference, Department of Computing, University of Surrey, UK, 2004.

Winner, PhD Conference, Department of Computing, University of Surrey, UK, 2003.

References

Professor Andrew J. E. Seely

The Ottawa General Hospital

501 Smyth Road 6NW-6356

Ottawa, ON

K1H 8L6, Canada

Tel: +1 613.737.8899

Fax: +1 613.737.8668

E-Mail: aseely@toh.on.ca   

Professor Steve Schneider

Head, Department of Computing

University of Surrey

Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

Tel: +44 1483.68.9637

Fax: +44 1483.68.6051

E-Mail: s.schneider@surrey.ac.uk

 

Dr. Andrew Salway

Burton Bradstock Research Labs      

31 Middle Street     

Burton Bradstock     

Dorset, DT6 4QR, UK

Tel: +44 1308.89.7492  

E-Mail: andrew@bbrel.co.uk

 

Professor Ekram Husain

Department of Electrical Engineering

Aligarh Muslim University

Aligarh, UP, India

Tel: +91 571.272.1178

E-Mail: ehusain2001@yahoo.com

© Saif Ahmad

Last Modified: June 22, 2008