Shahram Shirani

Dr. Shahram Shirani is a Professor and holds the L.R. Wilson/Bell Canada Chair in Data Communications in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at McMaster University. He also serves as Acting Chair of the department. His research focuses on multimedia communications, image/video processing, medical imaging, and hardware architectures. He teaches courses like Image Processing (COMPENG 4TN4) and 3D Image Processing and Computer Vision (ECE 736).

Shirani earned his B.Sc. from Isfahan University of Technology (1989), M.Sc. from Amirkabir University of Technology (1994), and Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia (2000). His achievements include the Faculty of Engineering Leadership Fellowship (2014–15) and leadership roles in editorial boards for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

Research interests include video quality assessment, biomedical signal processing, and edge computing for traffic monitoring. His lab develops algorithms for multimedia representation, compression, and hardware implementation. Recent work includes AI-driven medical sound datasets, real-time noise removal in MRI, and efficient CNN pruning techniques.

He advises over 15 graduate students and collaborates on projects like the HLS-CMDS dataset and cardiac segmentation reviews. His lab’s contributions span biomedical engineering, autonomous systems, and smart sensor technologies.