Arash Mohammadi

Associate Professor

Contact

Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext. 2712
Email: arashmoh@encs.concordia.ca

Arash Mohammadi

Associate Professor, CIISE

I received B.Sc. degree form ECE Department at University of Tehran in 2005, the M.Sc. degree from BME Department at Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) in 2007, and Ph.D. degree from EECS department at York University in 2013. From 2013 to 2015, I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Multimedia Lab, in the ECE Department, at the University of Toronto working with Professor K.N. Plataniotis.

I am currently an Associate Professor with Concordia Institute of Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. I have joined CIISE at the Rank of Assistant Professor in December 1st 2015 and have been promoted to the Rank of Associate Professor with tenure effective June 1st, 2020 (after 4 years and 6 months).

I am serving IEEE Signal Processing Society at the capacity of Director Membership-Services. I am also the Vice-Chair of IEEE Signal Processing Montreal Chapter, and; Serving as the General Chair of Symposium on Advanced Bio-Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Medical Cyber-Physical Systems under 2018 IEEE Global Signal Processing Conference (GlobalSIP).

I was the Lead Guest Editor for an Special Issue in IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing Over Networks entitled "Distributed Signal Processing for Security and Privacy in Networked Cyber-Physical Systems"; General Chair of Symposium on Advanced Bio-Signal Processing and Rehabilitation and Assistive Systems under 2017 IEEE Global Signal Processing Conference (GlobalSIP); Organizing Committee of Special Session on Bio Signal Processing for Movement Assessment, Neuro-Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies, under 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, and; Organizing Committee Chair of "IEEE Signal Processing Society Winter School on Distributed Signal Processing for Secure Cyber-Physical Systems".

I am a Senior Member of the IEEE; A member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Membership Board; IEEE Signal Processing Society Publication Board, and IEEE Signal Processing Society Conference Board.

CV

  • Associate Professor (June 2020- Present), Concordia University, Concordia Institute of Information Systems Engineering (CIISE).
  • Assistant Professor (Dec. 2015- May 2020Present), Concordia University, Concordia Institute of Information Systems Engineering (CIISE).
  • Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2015), University of Toronto, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

  • Ph.D. 2013, in Electrical Engineering, York University Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • M.Sc. 2007, Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering mirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)Boston University.
  • B.A. 2005, Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran.

  • Technical Program Committee (TPC): International Conference on Current Research in Signal Processing & Communications (SPC 2016).<\li>
  • Technical Program Committee (TPC): 2015 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD 2015).
  • Technical Reviewer:
    • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
    • IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
    • IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
    • IEEE Computer Magazine.
    • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
    • IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
    • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
    • IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks.
    • Signal Processing.
    • Journal of the Franklin Institute.
    • International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems.
    • Asian Journal of Control.

Book Chapters
[B1] Arash Mohammadi and Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, "Secure State Estimation in Industrial Control Systems," submitted to: Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems: from the Viewpoint of Close-Loop, Editords: Peng Cheng, Heng Zhang, and Jiming Chen, 2015.
[B2] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "Consensus-based Particle Filter Implementations for Distributed Non-linear Systems," chapter 9 in Nonlinear Estimation and Applications to Industrial Systems Control, Editor G. Rigatos, 2011.
Journal Publications

[J15] Arash Mohammadi and Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, "Event-Based Estimation With Information-Based Triggering and Unsupervised Update," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, November 2015.
[J14] Arash Mohammadi and Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, "Secure Estimation via Distance Measures for Cyber-Physical Systems under Non-Circular Attacks," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, September 2015.
[J13] Arash Mohammadi, Xiao-Ping Zhang, and Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, "Systematic Risk Estimation in Financial Econometrics via Interactive Gaussian-Sum Filtering," submitted to Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, June 2015.
[J12] Arash Mohammadi and Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, "Distributed Widely Linear Multiple-Model Adaptive Estimation," Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, April 2015.
[J11] Arash Mohammadi and Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, "Improper Complex-Valued Bhattacharyya Distance," accepted in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, May. 2015.
[J10] Arash Mohammadi and Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, "Structure-Induced Complex Kalman Filter for Decentralized Sequential Bayesian Estimation," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 1419-1423, 2015.
[J9] Arash Mohammadi and Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, "Improper Complex-Valued Multiple-Model Adaptive Estimation," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 1528-1542, 2015.
[J8] Arash Mohammadi and Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, "Complex-Valued Gaussian Sum Filter for Nonlinear Filtering of Non-Gaussian/Non-Circular Noise," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 440-444, 2015. In the list of most popular papers of October, and November, 2014.
[J7] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "Distributed Consensus + Innovation Particle Filtering for Bearing/Range Tracking with Communication Constraints," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 620-635, 2015. In the list of most popular papers of January, 2015.
[J6] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, " Consensus-based Distributed Dynamic Sensor Selection in Decentralised Sensor Networks Using the Posterior Cramer-Rao Lower Bound," Signal Processing, vol. 108, pp. 558-575, 2015.
[J5] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "Full and Reduced-order Distributed Bayesian Estimation: Analytical Performance Bounds," IEEE Transaction on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 50, issue 4, pp. 2468-2488, 2014.
[J4] Xionghu Zhong, Arash Mohammadi, A. B. Premkumar, and Amir Asif, "A Distributed Particle Filtering Approach for Multiple Acoustic Source Tracking Using an Acoustic Vector Sensor Network," Signal Processing, 108, pp. 589-603, 2015.
[J3] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "Distributed Particle Filter Implementation with Intermittent/Irregular Consensus Convergence," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 2572-2587, May 15, 2013.
[J2] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "Decentralized Conditional Posterior Cramer-Rao Lower Bound for Nonlinear Distributed Estimation," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 165-168, Feb. 2013.
[J1] Arash Mohammadi and Farshad Almasganj, "Reconstruction of Missing Features by Means of Multivariate Laplace Distribution (MLD) for Noise Robust Speech Recognition," Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 3918-3930, 2011.
Conference Publications

[C24] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "Distributed Particle Filter Implementations with Minimal Consensus Runs ," accepted in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 4-9, Florence, Italy, 2014.
[C23] Amir Asif, Arash Mohammadi and S. Saxena, " Reduced Order Distributed Particle Filter for Electric Power Grids ," accepted in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 4-9, Florence, Italy, 2014.
[C22] Xionghu Zhong, Arash Mohammadi, A. B. Premkumar, and Amir Asif, "A Distributed Particle Filter for Acoustic Source Tracking Using an Acoustic Vector Sensor Network ," accepted in IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), 2014.
[C21] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "Full Order Nonlinear Distributed Estimation in Intermittently Connected Networks ," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 6327-6331, May 26-31, Vancouver, Canada, 2013.
[C20] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "Decentralized Computation of the Conditional Posterior Cramer-Rao Lower Bound: Application to Adaptive Sensor Selection ," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 5278-5282, May 26-31, Vancouver, Canada, 2013.
[C19] Xionghu Zhong, Arash Mohammadi, W. Wan, A. B. Premkumar, and Amir Asif, "Acoustic Source Tracking in a Reverberant Environment Using a Pairwise Synchronous Microphone Network ," IEEE International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Istanbul, Turkey, 2013.
[C18] Arash Mohammadi, Amir Asif, Xionghu Zhong, and A. B. Premkumar, "Decentralized Bayesian Estimation with Quantized Observations: Theoretical Performance Bounds ," IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Cambridge, MA, pp. 149-156, 2013.
[C17] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "Decentralized Sensor Selection based on the Distributed Posterior Cramer-Rao Lower Bound, ," IEEE International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Singapore, pp. 1668-1675, 2012. (Won one of the Top 10 Best Student Paper Awards)
[C16] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "Theoretical Performance Bounds for Reduced-order Linear and Nonlinear Distributed Estimation ," IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Anaheim, CA, pp. 3929–3935, 2012.
[C15] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "A Constraint Sufficient Statistics based Distributed Particle Filter for Bearing Only Tracking ," IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), Ottawa, Canada, pp. 3670-3675, June 12-15, 2012.
[C14] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "Distributed State Estimation for Large-scale Nonlinear Systems: A Reduced Order Particle Filter Implementation ," IEEE Statistical Signal Processing (SSP), Arbor, MI, pp. 249-252, 2012.
[C13] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "Full Order Distributed Particle Filters for Intermittent Connections: Feedback From Fusion Filters to Local Filters Improves Performanc ," IEEE Statistical Signal Processing (SSP), Arbor, MI, pp. 524-527, 2012. [C12] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "Distributed Posterior Cramer-Rao Lower Bound for Nonlinear Sequential Bayesian Estimation, ," IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (SAM), pp. 509-512, 2012.
[C11] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "A Consensus/Fusion based Distributed Implementation of the Particle Filter ," IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, San Juan, Puerto Rico, pp. 285-288, Dec. 2011. (Selected among the seven winners of the student travel grants)
[C10] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "Consensus-Based Distributed Unscented Particle Filter ," IEEE Statistical Signal Processing (SSP), Nice, France, pp. 237-240, 2011.
[C9] Arash Mohammadi and Amir Asif, "Distributed Particle Filtering for Large Scale Dynamical Systems ," IEEE International Multi-topic Conference (INMIC), vol. 1, pp. 1-5, Dec. 2009.
[C8] Arash Mohammadi, Farshad Almasganj, A. Taherkhani, and F. Naderkhani, "Missing Feature Reconstruction with Multivariate Laplace Distribution (MLD) for Noise Robust Phoneme Recognition ," IEEE International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing (ISCCSP), pp pp 836-840, March 12-14, 2008.
[C7] Arash Mohammadi Farshad Almasganj, S.N. Sadrieh, and A. Zandi, "Incomplete Spectrogram Reconstruction with Kalman Filter for Noise Robust Speech Recognition ," IEEE International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing (ISCCSP), pp 814-818, March 12-14, 2008.
[C6] Arash Mohammadi, Farshad Almasganj, A. Taherkhani, and F. Naderkhani, "Using Phoneme Segmentation in Conjunction with Missing Feature Approaches for Noise Robust Speech Recognition ," IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), pp 297-301, December 15-18, 2007.
[C5] Arash Mohammadi and Farshad Almasganj, "Investigation of Probability Distribution of Speech Signals in Mel Filter Bank Domain ," Proceeding of (IKT), 2007.
[C4] A. Taherkhani, S. A. Seyyedsalehi, Arash Mohammadi, and H. Davande, "Design of Chaotic Neural Network for Robust Phoneme Recognition ," IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IWCCI), pp 3500-3504, June 1-6, 2008
[C3] A. Taherkhani, S. A. Seyyedsalehi, Arash Mohammadi and M.H. Moradi, "Design of a Chaotic Neural Network by Using Chaotic Nodes and NDRAM Network ," IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), pp 1171-1175, December 15-18, 2007.
[C2] S. N. Sadrieh1, R. Saadat and Arash Mohammadi,"A New Method for Summation of short time CAF's Based on RLCS Motion ," IEEE ICEE, 2008.
[C1] A. Taherkhani, S. A. Seyyedsalehi and Arash Mohammadi, "Design of Chaotic Neural Network for Robust Phoneme Recognition ," IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT) , 2008.