Faculty Member

Amin Zollanvari

Biography

Amin Zollanvari received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Shiraz University, Iran, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 2010. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, from 2010 to 2012, and an Assistant Research Scientist with the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University from 2012 to 2014. He then served as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, from 2015 to 2025. In 2025, he joined Utah Valley University, where he is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is an IEEE Senior Member and the author of the textbook Machine Learning with Python, Theory and Implementation (Springer, 2023).

Education

PhD, Texas A&M University, 2010

Major: Electrical Engineering

MS, Shiraz University, 2006

Major: Electrical Engineering

BS, Shiraz University, 2003

Major: Electrical Engineering

Teaching

ECE 4750

Digital Signal Processing, Spring 2026

ECE 3760

Electronic Systems, Spring 2026

ECE 4850

Machine Learning, Spring 2026

Presentations

Morris, Riley (Presenter & Author), Rodriguez, Axell (Co-Author), Roberts, Jared (Co-Author), Ferrier, Michael (Presenter & Author), Zollanvari, Amin (Co-Author), i-ETC 2026, "Beebo: AI Robot​", IEEE, Provo. (May 9, 2026)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Ramazanova, Zamart , Matkarimov, Bakhyt , Nabavi, Sheida , Crape, Byron , Zollanvari, Amin , (2026) "SNP-based prediction of schizophrenia using machine learning" . Bioinformatics Advances.
Aidarkhan, Assanali , Nurmanova, Venera , Zollanvari, Amin , Bagheri, Mehdi , (2026) "Vibration-based distribution transformer fault prognosis using recurrent neural networks with self-attention" . Results in Engineering.
Keutayeva, Aigerim , Zollanvari, Amin , Abibullaev, Berdakh , (2026) "Visual Evoked Potentials in Neurofeedback_ Advancing Cognitive Control in ADHD Through Therapeutic Gaming" . Bridging the Gap between Mind and Machine_ Exploring the Future of Human-AI-Neurotechnology Integration.
Serikbay, Arailym , Nurmanova, Venera , Akhmetov, Yerbol , Zollanvari, Amin , Bagheri, Mehdi , (2025) "A Systematic YOLO-Specific Model Selection for Mechanical Fault Identification in High-Voltage Insulators" (Issue: 1, vol. 2025). International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems.
Mukhamediya, Azamat , Zollanvari, Amin , (2025) "AdaBoost.SDM: Similarity and dissimilarity-based manifold regularized adaptive boosting algorithm" . Pattern Recognition Letters.
Mukhamediya, Azamat , Sameni, Reza , Zollanvari, Amin , (2025) "Efficient active learning using recursive estimation of error reduction" (vol. 638). Neurocomputing.