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Farzaneh Ahmadi

Farzaneh Ahmadi BSc, PhD

Biotechnology, Neuroscience, Research and Clinical Research
Penrith, New South Wales, Australia

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Dr. Farzaneh Ahmadi is a postdoctoral research fellow in our Bioelectronics and Neuroscience (BENS) group. Farzaneh is a BSc. graduate of Electronics Engineering from University of Tehran (the highest ranked university of Iran). She started her research career as an industrial R&D project manager in Iran where she was nationally acknowledged for successful delivery of multiple pilot R&D projects. In 2007 she returned to academia to work as a Research Associate at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) of Singapore and started her PhD in Biomedical Engineering developing a Bionic Voice prosthesis for patients who lose their voice box due to larynx cancer.

Her publications are as follows:
Bio-effects and safety of low-intensity, low-frequency ultrasonic exposure F Ahmadi, IV McLoughlin, S Chauhan, G ter-Haar Progress in biophysics and molecular biology 108 (3), 119-138.
Reconstruction of normal sounding speech for laryngectomy patients through a modified CELP codec HR Sharifzadeh, IV McLoughlin, F Ahmadi Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on 57 (10), 2448-2458.
Voiced speech from whispers for post-laryngectomised patients HR Sharifzadeh, IV McLoughlin, F Ahamdi IAENG International Journal of Computer Science 36 (4), 367-377.
The use of low-frequency ultrasonics in speech processing F Ahmadi, I McLoughlin INTECH Open Access Publisher.
Regeneration of speech in voice-loss patients HR Sharifzadeh, IV McLoughlin, F Ahmadi 13th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, 1065-1068.
Human Mouth State Detection Using Low Frequency Ultrasound F Ahmadi, M Ahmadi, I McLoughlin Interspeech 2013.
Linear predictive analysis for ultrasonic speech F Ahmadi, IV McLoughlin, HR Sharifzadeh Electronics letters 46 (6), 387-388.
Talking ultrasound H Dyball, A F., ML I. Electronics Letters 46 (6), 383-383.
Speech reconstruction in post-laryngectomised patients by formant manipulation and pitch profile generation HR Sharifzadeh, F Ahmadi, IV McLoughlin Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2, 1838-1843.
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