Farid Hamzei-Sichani

Farid Hamzei-Sichani is an Assistant Professor at UMass Chan Medical School in the Neurological Surgery department. His academic journey includes a BS in Biochemistry from Columbia University, an MD from State University of New York Downstate Medical College, and a PhD in Neural & Behavioral Science from State University of New York Health Sciences Center.

• Primary affiliation: Neurological Surgery, UMass Chan Medical School
• Departmental colleagues: Peter Amenta, Rona Carroll, Rachael Sirianni, Madhav Sukumaran, Hongwei Yang

Research interests focus on Neurology, Neurosurgery, Hemodynamics, and Neural Networks, with particular emphasis on cerebral aneurysms, brain network dynamics, and synaptic architecture. His publications span computational modeling of aneurysm rupture probability, hemodynamic stress analysis, neuropharmacology of speech lateralization, and hippocampal synaptic connectivity.

Co-authors include Aaron Remenschneider, Judith Kempfle, and multidisciplinary collaborators in neuroimaging, vascular surgery, and computational neuroscience. His work has been cited over 500 times across PubMed Central, with Science and Neuron as high-impact publication venues.