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Curriculum Vitae |
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SAIF AHMAD |
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Home Address: |
Office Address: 800 King Edward |
Contact Information: Fax: +1 613.562.5664 E-Mail: sahmad@site.uottawa.ca
Web: www.saifahmad.com |
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Education |
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Computer Science, University
of Surrey, Computer Science, University
of Birmingham, Electrical Engineering, Aligarh Muslim
University, |
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Appointments |
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1. Research
Associate, School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa,
2. Postdoctoral
Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, 3. Electrical
Engineer, Tata Chemicals Ltd., |
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Research Summary |
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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 blood pressure, heart failure, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), based on the development, application, and evaluation of concepts and computational paradigms derived from complex systems science. |
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Publications |
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R.G. Armstrong, S. Ahmad, A.J.E. Seely, S. Ahmad, M. Bolic, H. Dajani, V. Groza, S. Ahmad, S. Chen, K.
Soueidan, I. Batkin, M. Bolic, H. Dajani, and V. Groza, "A
prototype of an integrated blood pressure and electrocardiogram device for
multi-parameter physiologic monitoring," IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement
Technology Conference Proceedings, Austin, TX, USA, 3-6 May, 2010.
S. Ahmad, A. Tejuja,
K.D. Newman, R. Zarychanski, and A.J.E Seely,
"A Review and Analysis of Heart Rate Variability and the
Diagnosis and Prognosis of Infection," Critical Care
13 (6): 232, doi:10.1186/cc8132, November 2009. S. Ahmad, T. Ramsay, L. Huebsch,
S. Flanagan, S. McDiarmid, I. Batkin, L. McIntyre, S.R. Sundaresan,
D.E. Maziak,
F.M. Shamji,
P. Hebert, D. Fergusson, A. Tinmouth, and A.J.E. Seely, "Continuous Multi-Parameter Heart Rate Variability Analysis
Heralds Onset of Sepsis in Adults," PLoS One 4 (8): e6642.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006642, August 2009. S. Ahmad, M. Bolic, H. Dajani, and V.
Groza, "Wavelet
Estimation of Pulse Rate Variability from Oscillometric Blood Pressure
Measurements," IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and Applications
(MeMeA 09), Cetraro, S. Ahmad, S. Flanagan, L.
McIntyre, T. Ramsay, D. Fergusson, D. Maziak, F.M. Shamji,
R.S. Sundaresan,
L. Huebsch,
and 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," ICSC Congress on
Computational Intelligence Methods and Applications (CIMA 05), 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 04), 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 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 04), 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
04), 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, 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
02), Nancy, France, August 28-30, 2002. <= Presentation |
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Doctoral Thesis (PhD) |
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S. Ahmad, "A Temporal Pattern Identification and
Summarization Method for Complex Time Serial Data," Unpublished
PhD Thesis, |
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Other Reports and Presentations |
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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 07), S. Ahmad, A. Popoola,
and K. Ahmad, "Wavelet-based Multiresolution Forecasting,"
UniS
Technical Report, 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, |
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Research Projects (June 2006 - Present) |
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BPMS - Blood Pressure Measurement Systems WAVE - Weaning and
Variability Evaluation VAREX - Cardiopulmonary Variability During Exercise |
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Professional Activities |
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Presentations at Professional Meetings |
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2007 |
Seventh Annual OHRI Research
Day, Hellenic Banquet Centre, |
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2007 |
International Conference on
Complexity in Acute Illness, |
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2004 |
International Conference on
Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, |
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2004 |
PhD Conference, Department of
Computing, |
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2003 |
PhD Conference, Department of
Computing, |
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2002 |
International Conference on Terminology and Knowledge
Engineering, |
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House of Commons
(British Parliament), Reuters
PLC, |
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HONOURS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND AWARDS |
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Ottawa Health Research Institute (OHRI)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Computing Merit Scholarship, Winner, PhD Conference,
Department of Computing, University of Surrey, Winner, PhD Conference, Department of Computing,
University of Surrey, |
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References |
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Professor Andrew J. E. Seely The Tel: +1 613.737.8899 Fax: +1 613.737.8668 E-Mail: aseely@toh.on.ca |
Professor Steve Schneider Head, Department of Computing Tel: +44 1483.68.9637 Fax: +44 1483.68.6051 E-Mail: s.schneider@surrey.ac.uk |
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Dr. Andrew Salway E-Mail: andrew@bbrel.co.uk |
Professor Tim Ramsay The Tel: +1 613.737.8899 Fax: +1 613.739.6266 E-Mail: tramsay@ohri.ca |
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© Saif Ahmad |
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