Somaieh Amraee
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Somaieh Amraee is a postdoctoral research fellow at Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI. Somaieh earned her PhD in computer engineering from the University of Isfahan in 2018, following her Master of Science in 2010 from Isfahan University of Technology and her Bachelor of Science in 2006 from Alzahra University. From 2018 to 2023, she served as an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Jundi-Shapur University of Technology in Dezful, Iran.
Somaieh’s research focuses on machine vision and image processing with an emphasis on health-related applications, such as multimodal AI for healthcare and remote patient monitoring.
At the Institute for Experiential AI, she collaborates with health and medical researchers to advance deep learning-based computer vision techniques for discovering and monitoring biomarkers of children's health and development. Her work includes video-based analysis of challenging behaviors in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), multi-person tracking in complex videos, and human pose estimation and action recognition.
Ph.D. Area: Computer Engineering
Lead Mentor: Sarah Ostadabbas
Project Name: Learning Visual Representations of Challenging Behavior in Individuals with Autism to Enhance Functional Analysis