Dr. Nasim Montazeri

Biography

Nasim Montazeri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen's University. She is an expert in smart textiles, biomedical signal processing, acoustic technologies, and wearables. Dr. Montazeri completed a double PhD in signal processing and biomedical engineering from the University of Rennes 1 in France and Sharif University of Technology in Iran. Furthermore, she has a Bachelor’s degree in biomedical control engineering and a Master’s degree in biomedical engineering. Before joining Queen's, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Sunnybrook Research Institute, University Health Network. As a woman entrepreneur, she co-founded BioSenseTex, a start-up focusing on the development of innovative medical textile-based wearables. Dr. Montazeri has received multiple entrepreneurship awards, including the Borealis AI/RBC award for innovative research in respiratory system analysis and the Entrepreneurship Cardiovascular Health Opportunities (ECHO) award for developing textile-based sensors to measure lung edema in heart failure patients. With over 40 published articles in journals and presentations at major scientific conferences, her research focuses on the development of medical wearables that promote remote health monitoring and the analysis of health data using artificial intelligence, particularly in the realm of sleep analysis.

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