Curriculum Vitae – Saeid Rezaei Afshar

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Education

Ph.D. Candidate in Neuroscience

Laval University, Quebec City, Canada
Expected: May 2026 – November 2031

Master of Science in Cognitive Science

Shahid Beheshti University, ICBS, Tehran, Iran
September 2023 – November 2025 | GPA: 4.0/4.0

Bachelor of Science in Applied Linguistics (English)

Shahid Madani Azerbaijan University (Tarbiat Moallem), Tabriz, Iran
September 2018 – July 2021 | GPA: 4.0/4.0

Research Interests

Computational Neuroscience
Dynamic network modeling of brain circuits
Computational psychiatry
Machine learning for neural decoding

Publications

Coevolutionary balance of resting-state brain networks in autism
Rezaei Afshar, S., Jafari, R.
Nature Scientific Reports
Submission ID: 2f892ad7-f773-43c0-b239-7acd9469a8fc
Under Review

Coupling Potential: Predicting Functional Connectivity from Structural Network Motifs
Rezaei Afshar, S., Jafari, R.
Network Neuroscience
Submission ID: NETNEURO-26-0016
Under Review

Survivorship Bias Masks True Network Aging: Longitudinal Evidence from Structural Connectome Analysis
Rezaei Afshar, S., Jafari, R.
Under Preparation

Persistent Homology Reveals Topological Alterations in Resting-State Brain Networks of Autism Spectrum Disorder
M. Mozaffari, S. Roshandel, S. Rezaei Afshar, F. Farahpour, and G.R. Jafari
Under Preparation

Projects

Designing a Raspberry Pi Based Assistance tool for Autism Diagnosed Children (2023)
Tools: Python, Office, EndNote
Statistical Data Analysis Using R Language (2023)
Tools: R, Python
Designing Behavioral Cognitive Tasks (2023)
Tools: Python, Psychopy

Certifications

Academic IELTS, Overall Band 8 – British Council, December 2024
Google Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer
Python for Data Science
Processing fMRI Data Using CONN Toolbox – CCNSD, Shahid Beheshti University
Calculus, Statistics and Probability – Khan Academy
Introduction to Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences – Coursera, University of Edinburgh
Neurolinguistics – Saint Petersburg State University

Experience

Senior Python Developer & DevOps Engineer
Safron System Company, Tehran, Iran
November 2025 – Present

Python Developer & DevOps Engineer
Baduno GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany (Remote)
July 2025 – November 2025

Researcher
Center for Complex Networks & Social Data Science (CCNSD)
September 2024 – Present

Secretary
Scientific Association, ICBS, Tehran, Iran
November 2024 – April 2025

Intern Researcher
Computational Psychology Lab, ICBS, Tehran, Iran
September 2023 – March 2024

English Language Teacher
National Institute for English Language Teaching, Urmia, Iran
September 2019 – September 2021

Voluntary High School Biology Teacher to Financially Incapable Students
Shahindezh, West Azerbaijan, Iran
December 2021 – May 2022

Voluntary English Language Teacher to Financially Incapable Students
Shahindezh, West Azerbaijan, Iran
July 2019 – November 2021

Skills

Programming Languages

Python
R
Bash

Applications and Tools

Linux
Matlab
Microsoft Office
Mendeley
CONN
SPM
FSL

References

Reza Jafari
Professor of Physics
Department of Physics and Institute for Cognitive Science and Brain, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
(+98) 21 2990 2773
g_jafari@sbu.ac.ir | gjafari@gmail.com
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Dr. Reza KhosrowAbadi
Professor
Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
r_khosroabadi@sbu.ac.ir | R.khosrowabadi@gmail.com

S. Ali Hosseiny Esfidvajani
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Physics, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
(+98) 21 2990 5043
al_hosseiny@sbu.ac.ir