Kayvan Samimi, Ph.D

Research Assistant

Department Affiliations

Medical Physics

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Education

• B.S., Electrical Engineering,University of Tehran, Iran,2009
• M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011
• Ph.D.,Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016

Research

Research Interests:

Ultrasound Imaging, Ultrasound Elastography

Doctoral Research Advisor:

Tomy Varghese, Ph.D

Doctoral Dissertation:

Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging during Ablation Procedures, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Positions

• 01/2010-12/2011, Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics
• 01/2014-01/2017, Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics

02/2017-Present, Post Doctoral Fellow, Morgridge Institute for Research

Awards and Honors

Memberships

• Student Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Student Member, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM)

Publications @ UW

• K. Samimi, Tomy Varghese, "Performance evaluation of the spectral centroid downshift method for attenuation estimation", IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol. 62, No. 5, pp. 871-880, 2015. [Abstract]
• K. Samimi, Tomy Varghese, "Optimum Diffraction-Corrected Frequency-Shift Estimator of the Ultrasonic Attenuation Coefficient", IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control,Vol. 63, No. 5, pp. 691-702, doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2016.2538719, 2016. [Abstract]

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