Hello 👋

I’m Alireza Habibzadeh (in Persian: علیرضا حبیب زاده), an electrical engineering PhD student at USC and a research assistant with Professor Maryam Shanechi in the Neural Systems Engineering & Information Processing Lab. We develop machine learning and dynamical systems methods for modeling and decoding brain activity, and we’re currently building a foundation model trained on iEEG neural recordings.

1. Au

   2019

   Iranian Physics Olympiad

   Gold medalist in the 31^st national competition.

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   2020

   European Physics Olympiad

   Silver medalist at the 4^th EuPhO.

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   2020–2025

   Sharif University of Technology

   Double major in Computer Engineering and Physics.

4. Summer 2023

   Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL)

   E3 research intern at LPQM.

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   2025–present

   University of Southern California

   PhD student and research assistant in the NSEIP Lab.

Outside the lab, I enjoy movies, video games, swimming, photography, and coding. You can find my movie ratings on IMDb and my game collection on Notion. I volunteer with the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, Science Olympiad, and USC’s student mentoring program. I also edited Persian Wikipedia for years, but I retired from that journey because AI does a better job than me.

Contact

• 1002 Childs Way, Los Angeles CA 90089
• +1 (213) 862-1042
• ahabibza@usc.edu
• alirezahabib@icloud.com
• https://alirezahabib.me