Reza Sameni

Reza Sameni is an Associate Professor at Emory University's Department of Biomedical Informatics and Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology's Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. He serves as Scientific Director of Emory's Medical Imaging, Informatics, and AI (MIIAI) Core.

• PhD in Biomedical Engineering (Sharif University of Technology)
• PhD in Signal Processing & Telecommunications (INPG)
• MSc in Biomedical Engineering (Sharif University)
• BSc in Electronics Engineering (Shiraz University)

His research spans biomedical signal processing and model-based machine learning, with applications in cardiovascular diagnostics, maternal-fetal health, psychiatry, and global health equity. The Alphanumerics Lab develops explainable AI tools for multimodal physiological monitoring and open-access platforms like OSET.

Current article trends focus on AI-driven diagnostics, cross-modal ECG/PCG analysis, edge computing for rural healthcare, and algorithmic reproducibility in biomedical applications. The lab actively recruits graduate students and postdocs.

• Georgia Institute of Technology (adjunct appointment)
• Emory University (tenured associate professor)
• Former Chair at Shiraz University
• Former Senior Researcher at GIPSA-lab

Lab initiatives include: open-source toolboxes (OSET), crowdsourced AI frameworks for arrhythmia detection, and bias mitigation in clinical AI systems. Research integrates FPGA/ embedded systems for biomedical hardware development.