Dr. Abbas Samani

Dr. Abbas Samani received his B.Sc degree from Amirkabir University of Technology and M.Sc. degree from Tehran University in 1987 and 1991 respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo in 1997. Dr. Samani held Post-Doctoral Fellowship and Research Associate positions at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto until 2003. In 2003, he joined the University of Western Ontario as an Assistant Professor where he holds a joint faculty position in the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Medical Biophysics at the University of Western Ontario where he is Undergraduate Chair. Dr. Samani is also a core faculty member of the newly established Western’s Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, and is an Associate Scientist of the Imaging Research Laboratories at Robarts Research Institute. His research interests are biological tissue modeling and its applications in medical imaging and intervention, and image analysis