Mahmud Mufti, PhD

• Extracellular Neuronal Signal Processing & Analysis
• Intelligent System Development for Neuroscience Applications
• Brain-Machine Interfacing
• Neuronal Modeling
• NeuroInformatics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bio NEMS-MEMS

• Awarded travel grant by the Brains in Dialogue (BID) Project, to attend the third bid workshop - brains in dialogue on deep brain stimulation; 20-21 September 2010 in Warsaw, Poland.
• Awarded travel grant by the Centre for Neural Dynamics, University of Ottawa, Canada to attend the 4th University of Ottawa Summer School in Computational Neuroscience 2010 from 13-25 June 2010.
• Awarded the Student Scholarship by the Organizing Committee of ISSNIP Biosignals and Biorobotics Conference 2010 to attend the conference at Vitoria, Brazil from January 4-6, 2010.
• Awarded the BCBT Best Project award for the project entitled “a-Coaster: A Game Based on Human Brain – Robot Interface” at the BCBT Summer School 2008 organized and sponsored jointly by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain the euCognition network.
• Awarded the euCognition scholarship by the European Union Cognition Network to attend the Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School 2008 from 8 - 22 September 2008.

• 2011: Post Doctoral Fellowship awarded by NeuroChip Lab of University of Padova, Italy (duration: 1 year).
• 2008-2010: CARIPARO Fellowship for Doctoral Studies at University of Padova, Italy (duration: 3 years).
• 2007-2011: Predoctoral Research Grant by Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (duration: 4 years, unavailed).
• 2006-2007: Master’s Scholarship by University of Trento and FBK-irst (duration: 16 months).
• 1998-2001: Cultural Exchange Programme (CEP) Scholarship by the Government of India (duration: 3 years).
• 1992-1995: Talentpool Scholarship by Government of Bangladesh (duration 2 years).

• Since 01/2011: Postdoctoral Fellow at NeuroChip Laboratory, University of Padova - Italy.
• 01/2008 — 12/2010: Research Collaborator at NeuroChip Laboratory, University of Padova - Italy.
• 06/2007 — 12/2007: Staff Scientist at Molecular Stamping, Trento - Italy.
• Since 03/2006: Lecturer, Dept. of CSE, Daffodil International University, Dhaka - 1207, Bangladesh.
• 03/2005 — 02/2006: Lecturer, Dept. of CSE, Prime University, Dhaka - 1216, Bangladesh.
• 07/2003 — 12/2004: Software Engineer, Studio Graphix, Mysore, India.

2011

1. Mahmud M, Bertoldo A, Girardi S, Maschietto M, Pasqualotto E, Vassanelli S, "SigMate: A Comprehensive Software Package for Extracellular Neuronal Signal Processing and Analysis," The 5th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (IEEE EMBS-NER2011), Cancun, Maxico, April 27 - May 1, 2011 (Accepted).


2. Rahman M M, Mahmud M, Vassanelli S, "Self-Gating of Sodium Channels at Neuromuscular Junction," The 5th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (IEEE EMBS-NER2011), Cancun, Maxico, April 27 - May 1, 2011 (Accepted).


3. Girardi S, Maschietto M, Zeitler R, Mahmud M, Vassanelli S, "High Resolution Cortical Imaging Using Electrolyte-(Metal)-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors," The 5th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (IEEE EMBS-NER2011), Cancun, Maxico, April 27 - May 1, 2011 (Accepted).


4. Mahmud M, Travalin D, Bertoldo A, Girardi S, Maschietto M, Vassanelli S, "An Automated Method for Clustering Single Sweep Local Field Potentials Recorded from Rat Barrel Cortex," Proceedings of the ISSNIP Biosignals and Biorobotics Conference 2011 (BRC2011), Vitoria, Brazil, 6-8 January 2011.


2010

1. Mahmud M, Pasqualotto E, Bertoldo A, Girardi S, Maschietto M, Vassanelli S, "An Automated Method for the Detection of Layer Activation Order in Information Processing Pathways of Rat Barrel Cortex under Mechanical Whisker Stimulation," Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Vol. 196, No. 1, March 2011, pp. 141-150.


2. Mahmud M, Travalin D, Bertoldo A, Girardi S, Maschietto M, Vassanelli S, "A Contour Based Automatic Method to Classify Local Field Potentials Recorded from Rat Barrel Cortex," 5th Cairo International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (CIBEC2010), Cairo, Egypt, December 2010, pp. 163-166.


3. Mahmud M, Hawellek D, Bertoldo A, "EEG Based Brain-Machine Interface for Navigation of Robotic Device," Proceedings of the Third IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (IEEE BioRob2010), Tokyo, Japan, September 2010, , pp. 168-172.


4. Mahmud M, Bertoldo A, Girardi S, Maschietto M, Vassanelli S, "SigMate: A MATLAB-based Neuronal Signal Processing Tool," Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC2010), Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2010, pp. 1352-1355.


5. Mahmud M, Bertoldo A, Maschietto M, Girardi S, Vassanelli S, "Automatic Detection of Layer Activation Order in Information Processing Pathways of Rat Barrel Cortex under Mechanical Whisker Stimulation," Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC2010), Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2010, pp. 6095-6098.


6. Mahmud M, Girardi S, Maschietto M, Bertoldo A, Vassanelli S, "Processing of Neuronal Signals Recorded by Brain-Chip Interface from Surface of the S1 Brain Cortex," Proceedings of the 36th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference 2010 (NEBEC2010), New York, USA, 25-28 March 2010.


7. Mahmud M, Bertoldo A, Vassanelli S, " A Brain-Machine Interface Model Based on EEG for Automated Navigation of Mobile Robotic Device," Proceedings of the ISSNIP Biosignals and Biorobotics Conference 2010 (BRC2010), Vitoria, Brazil, 4-6 January 2010, pp. 236-239.


2009

1. Mahmud M, Girardi S, Maschietto M, Rahman MM, Bertoldo A, Vassanelli S, "Noise Characterization of Electrophysiological Signals Recorded from High Resolution Brain-Chip Interface," Proceedings of the International Symposium on Bioelectronics and Bioinformatics (ISBB2009), Melbourne, Australia, 9-11 December 2009, pp. 84-87.


2. Mahmud M, Girardi S, Maschietto M, Rahman MM, Bertoldo A, Vassanelli S, "Slow Stimulus Artifact Removal through Peak-Valley Detection of Neuronal Signals Recorded from Somatosensory Cortex by High Resolution Brain-Chip Interface," IFMBE Proceedings of the World Congress 2009 in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC2009). Munich, Germany, 7-12 September 2009, vol. 25/IV, pp. 2062-2065.


3. Mahmud M, Hawellek D, Valjamae A, "A Brain-Machine Interface Based on EEG: Extracted Alpha Waves Applied to Mobile Robot,"  Proceedings of the 2009 ECSIS Symposium on Advaced Technologies for Enhanced Quality of Life (AT-EQUAL 2009), Iasi, Romania, July 22 - 26, pp. 28-31.


4. Maschietto M, Mahmud M, Girardi S, Vassanelli S, "A High Resolution Bi-Directional Communication through a Brain-Chip Interface," Proceedings of the 2009 ECSIS Symposium on Advaced Technologies for Enhanced Quality of Life (AT-EQUAL 2009), Iasi, Romania, July 22 - 24, pp. 32-35.