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).

Teaching

ECE 4700

Computer Architecture for Engineering Applications, Fall 2025

ECE 4750

Digital Signal Processing, Fall 2025

ECE 3760

Electronic Systems, Fall 2025

Scholarly/Creative Works

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.
Serikbay, Arailym , Bagheri, Mehdi , Zollanvari, Amin , (2024) "A Convolutional Neural Network Ensemble Model for High-Voltage Insulator Surface Image Classification" .
Serikbay, Arailym , Nurmanova, Venera , Mukhamediya, Azamat , Zollanvari, Amin , Bagheri, Mehdi , (2024) "Assessment of Insulator Surface Pollution Severity Using Frequency Domain Spectroscopy (FDS)" .
Serikbay, Arailym , Bagheri, Mehdi , Zollanvari, Amin , Phung, BT , (2024) "Ensemble Pretrained Convolutional Neural Networks for the Classification of Insulator Surface Conditions" (Issue: 22, vol. 17). Energies.
Keutayeva, Aigerim , Zollanvari, Amin , Abibullaev, Berdakh , (2024) "Evolving Trends and Future Prospects of Transformer Models in EEG-Based Motor-Imagery BCI Systems" . Springer Nature.