====== Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani ======
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Projects:\\
- Data assimilation of rodent sleep-wake behavior into computational models of sleep\\
- Exploring relationship of various sleep-wake states with seizure likelihood\\
- Low-frequency electric field modulation to probe preseizure dynamics
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Contact Information:\\
212 Earth-Engineering Sciences Building (EESB)\\
University Park, PA 16802\\
mus236@psu.edu\\


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Education:\\
Harvey Mudd College   B.S. in Engineering, May 2005.
Penn State University Ph.D. in Engineering Science (Neural Egnineering Specialization), Nay 2013 (expected).
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Experience:\\
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, November 2007- August 2008\\
BioSTAR West, Claremont, CA, October 2005- October 2007 \\

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Awards:\\
-NIH/NINDS National Research Service Award (2010-2013): 'Active Probing and Sleep State Modeling for Seizure Prediction'\\
-4th International Seizure Prediction Workshop (2009): Best Clinical Poster

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Publications:

Observing the sleep-wake regulatory system to improve prediction of seizures. M. Sedigh-Sarvestani, B.J. Gluckman. (In press) (To be published as book chapter in: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Seizure Prediction. World Scientific, 2013.)\\

Reconstructing mammalian sleep dynamics with data assimilation. M. Sedigh-Sarvestani, S.J. Schiff, B.J. Gluckman. PLoS Comp Biol 8(11):e1002788, 2012.\\

Data assimilation of glucose dynamics for use in the intensive care unit. M. Sedigh- Sarvestani, D.J. Albers, B.J. Gluckman. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2012.\\

Analyzing large data sets acquired through telemetry from rats exposed to organophosphorous compoundsy. M. De Araujo Furtado, A. Zheng, M. Sedigh-Sarvestani,L.  Lumley, S.  Lichtenstein,D. Yourick. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 184(1):176-83, 2009.