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Calligrapher, artist, biomedical engineer,
scientific visualization expert and passionate with in silico neuroscience.

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Marwan Abdellah, born in Cairo, Egypt in 1987. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Biomedical Engineering with distinction from the Biomedical Engineering Department, School of Engineering at Cairo University in 2009 and 2012 respectively. After his graduation, he worked as a Research Engineer at IBE Technologies R&D Department in a 4D ultrasound machines project. Then he moved to work as an Associate Software Engineer at the Biomedical Department in Symbyo Technologies, currently 360imaging. In 2010, he joined the Multimedia Laboratory team in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) to conduct a research on H.264 & Reconfigurable Video Coding. In 2011, he joined the Blue Brain Project at EPFL as a Scientific Collaborator and Visualization Engineer to assist neuroscientists to visualizae large scale brain circuitry that is digitally reconstructed, in silico. In 2012, he started his PhD in Neuroscience at the Blue Brain Project (EPFL) under the supervision of Henry Markram and Felix Schürmann, where he successfully obtained in 2017. Currently, he is working as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow and Scientific Visualization Expert in the Blue Brain Project (EPFL). He focused in his M.Sc. thesis research on implementing high performance volume rendering techniques for large scale medical data on heterogeneous platforms. He succeeded in constructing a high performance Fourier Volume Render running entirely on CUDA-capable GPUs. His Ph.D. was focused on building computational models of several brain imaging techniques using physically-plausible models. Among his research interests are High Performance Computing, Heterogeneous Computing, Visualization, Scalable Rendering, Computer Graphics & Modeling, Medical Image Processing, Medical Imaging and In Silico Neuroscience. In 2009, Abdellah was awarded a graphics card from NVIDIA for accelerating a 4D ultrasound reconstruction software in a workshop on High Performance Computing at the International Center of Theoretical Physics (ICTP) held in Trieste, Italy. His graduation project was awarded by ITIDA and Egyptian ministers of Telecommunications & Higher Education during a celebration organized by ITIDA in March 2010.

الدكتور مروان عبداللاه هو مهندس أبحاث ومهندس برمجيات ومسؤول البحث والتطوير بقسم التصور والحوسبة في مشروع الدماغ الازرق. ولد في القاهرة عام ١٩٨٧ وحصل على درجتي البكالوريوس والماجستير في الهندسة الطبية من قسم الهندسة الطبية الحيوية والمنظومات بكلية الهندسة جامعة القاهرة تحت إشراف الدكتور ياسر قدح والدكتور أيمن الديب. كما نال درجة الدكتوراه في علوم الأعصاب من المعهد التقني الفدرالي السويسري بلوزان EPFL تحت إشراف العالم البارز في مجال علوم الأعصاب الدكتور هنري ماركرم مدير مشروع الدماغ الأزرق ومؤسس مشروع الدماغ البشري ومعهد العقل والدماغ بالمعهد التقني الفدرالي بلوزان. بعد التخرج عمل عبداللاه كمهندس برمجيات بقسم البحث والتطوير بشركة IBE Technologies لتطوير أجهزة تصوير السونار رباعية الأبعاد. ثم التحق بقسم البرمجيات الحيوية بشركة Symbyo Technologies للمساهمة في تطوير برامج زراعة الإسنان. في عام ٢٠١١ أنضم عبداللاه لمشروع الدماغ الأزرق كمهندس برمجيات وباحث مشارك للمساهمة في تطوير الأنظمة البرمجية المستخدمة لتصوير النماذج العصبية المطورة والتي تستخدم لمحاكاة الوظائف العضوية لأدمغة القوارض بإستخدام أجهزة الحواسيب العملاقة.


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Interestes

  • Visualization
  • Rendering
  • High Performance Computing
  • Computational Geometry
  • High Fidelity Mesh Reconstruction
  • In Silico Neuroscience
  • Medical Imaging

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  • Briefings in Bioinformatics (Oxford Academic), February 2022
  • Briefings in Bioinformatics (Oxford Academic), August 2023
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier), January 2023
  • IEEE Transactions of Computational Imaging, December 2022
  • STAR Protocols: Cell Press, July 2022
  • Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, June 2022
  • Frontiers in Surgery, December 2021
  • Neuroinformatics (Springer), August 2021
  • STAR Protocols: Cell Press, May 2021
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, February 2021
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience, February 2020
  • Journal of Electronic Imaging (SPIE), July 2019
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, February 2019
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, December 2018
  • Journal of Electronic Imaging (SPIE), April 2018
  • BMC Bioinformatics, February 2018
  • Journal of Electronic Imaging (SPIE), January 2018
  • Journal of Medical Imaging (SPIE), February 2017
  • Journal of Electronic Imaging (SPIE), May 2016
  • Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics & Visualization (EGPGV) 2016, March 2016
  • SoftwareX (Elsevier), January 2016
  • Design Automation for Embedded Systems, August 2015
  • Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics & Visualization (EGPGV) 2015, July 2015
  • Journal of Medical Imaging & Health Informatics, March 2015
  • Computer Graphics Forum, January 2014
  • IEEE, Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC) 2012, August 2012
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