Amin Alam's CV

• Email: ma.alamalhoda@gmail.com
• Location: Vienna, Austria
• Website: aminalam.info
• LinkedIn: Amin-Alam-765702168
• GitHub: AminAlam

Summary

Engineering Lead (Neurotech) at Syntropic delivering trial-ready end-to-end systems (HW/FW/app/cloud/AI) for at-home depression treatment using flickering light therapy.

Led a 3‑engineer team and shipped 3 product versions for 3 clinical trials in 18 months; owned system integration from embedded device → cloud data → ML hooks toward commercial deployment.

Research + applied AI background: built a 3D cell-segmentation foundation model at ISTA with 400× speedup, secured a €100k EIT Health commercialization grant, and published in PLOS One (2025); first-author on 4 papers (incl. PLOS One, 2025).

Education

Sharif University of TechnologyTehran, Iran

Sept 2018 – June 2023

BSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

• GPA: 3.78/4.00.

• National university entrance exam (Konkour): top 0.1% (150,000+ participants).

• Relevant focus: signal processing, machine learning, and systems engineering.

Experience

Engineering Lead

Vienna, Austria (On-site)

Mar 2024 – present

Syntropic

• Owned technical architecture and delivery across hardware, mechanics/frame, firmware, mobile apps, cloud infrastructure, and AI integration.

• Shipped 3 product versions supporting 3 clinical trials within 18 months, from prototype → trial-ready iterations.

• Deployed 30 devices across 3 clinical trials (n=14, 30, 30); processed >1 TB of device/app data; maintained 99.99% cloud uptime.

• Architected end‑to‑end integration spanning embedded hardware, real‑time data processing, and ML pipeline hooks; drove technical roadmap toward commercial deployment.

Founder & Developer

Vienna, Austria (Remote)

July 2025 – present

Tessera (Self-employed)

AI-powered incident mapping platform for real-time global news monitoring.

• Side project (bootstrapped): built an AI-powered incident mapping platform for real-time global news monitoring.

• Agent fleet ingests and classifies incidents by location/category, serving ~1,000 news/day to 500+ daily viewers.

AI Engineer

Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria, Austria

July 2022 – Mar 2024

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

• Designed and developed a foundational AI model for 3D cell segmentation delivering a 400× speed improvement while maintaining accuracy across entire retinal structures.

• Secured a €100,000 EU grant (EIT Health) supporting model commercialization.

Teaching Assistant

Tehran, Iran

Sept 2019 – Dec 2022

Sharif University of Technology

Electrical Engineering & Physics Departments

• Deep Learning (MSc) — Spring 2022

• Digital Image Processing (MSc) — Spring 2022

• Neuroscience (BSc, Physics Dept.) — Fall 2021

• Cognitive Neuroscience (MSc) — Fall/Spring 2020–2021

• Signals and Systems (BSc) — Spring 2020

• C/C++ Programming (BSc) — 2019–2021

Research Assistant

Tehran, Iran

June 2020 – Mar 2022

Sharif University of Technology

• Studied effects of natural songs on brain oscillations and Alzheimer’s therapy using amplitude/phase coupling.

• Studied cortical traveling waves during SSVEP/SSAEP.

• Developed an algorithm for predicting inhalation timing using capacitive sensors.

Research Assistant (Part-time)

Tehran, Iran

Feb 2022 – Nov 2022

Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)

• Brain source localization using simultaneous EEG and fMRI.

• Developed a transformer model to convert EEG data to fMRI.

Data Science and Image Processing Intern (Part-time)

Tehran, Iran (Hybrid)

June 2021 – Sept 2021

Nabzgroup

• Researched deep-learning methods for ultrasound image denoising.

• Developed a resolution enhancement model for ultrasound images.

Software Engineer (Part-time)

Tehran, Iran (Hybrid)

Apr 2020 – May 2021

Acochain

• Built an automated crypto trading bot using Binance APIs; used BERT-based forecasting for a 1-week horizon and executed buy/sell per client preferences.

• Owned Red Hat Linux server setup/maintenance; used Ansible automation, MySQL, and Docker.

Web Programming Intern (Part-time)

Tehran, Iran (On-site)

June 2019 – Sept 2019

Bonusco.ir

• Built web features and learned production tooling (Git, Docker, NGINX, Apache HTTP server) alongside HTML/CSS/JS.

Projects

Tessera

July 2025 – present

AI-powered incident map for real-time global news monitoring.

• Agent fleet ingests and classifies ~1,000 news/day for 500+ daily viewers.

ElecPhys

Dec 2022 – present

Python package for electrophysiology preprocessing and analysis tooling.

• Efficient workflows for large-scale datasets and common analysis pipelines.

Data Manager

July 2022 – June 2023

Web app for storing, searching, and annotating research data.

• API + UI for search/annotation workflows to support lab data management.

Deep-Object

Dec 2021 – Feb 2022

Joint deep neural networks for simultaneous object and depth detection.

• Research prototype exploring multi-task learning for perception.

Publications

trAIce3D: A Prompt-Driven Transformer Based U-Net for Semantic Segmentation of Microglial Cells from Large-Scale 3D Microscopy Images

July 2025

Prompt-driven 3D segmentation model for microglia (somas + branches) designed for robustness and generalization on large-scale microscopy volumes.

Amin Alam (first author), et al.

arxiv.org/abs/2507.22635 (arXiv (preprint, first author))

Exploring neural entrainment and synchrony in response to repeated 60 Hz flickering white light in healthy volunteers

July 2025

Human EEG study measuring neural entrainment/synchrony during repeated 60 Hz flicker sessions, including longitudinal habituation effects.

Amin Alam (first author), et al.

10.1371/journal.pone.0332310 (PLOS One (peer-reviewed, first author))

Optic nerve crush does not induce retinal ganglion cell loss in the contralateral eye

Mar 2025

Quantification of retinal ganglion cell density post-ONC using existing tools plus a deep-learning-based RGC-Quant approach.

Amin Alam (co-author), et al.

10.1101/2024.09.16.613181 ((co-author))

Traveling waves induced by gamma entrainment can explain its therapeutic effects for Alzheimer’s disease

June 2023

Analysis linking gamma entrainment to traveling wave dynamics that may explain therapeutic effects in Alzheimer’s disease models.

Amin Alam (first author), et al.

10.1002/alz.066261 (ALZ (first author))

A Natural Stimulus for Entraining Brain Oscillations in Alzheimer's Disease Therapy: Canary Song

July 2021

Study of naturalistic auditory stimulation and its relationship to entrainment and cross-frequency coupling relevant to Alzheimer’s therapy research.

Amin Alam (first author), et al.

(ALZ (first author))

Selected Honors

• ViennaUp Hackathon — 1st place (2025): built a conversational speech-to-speech AI agent for end-to-end travel booking and assistance.

• OëAD Scholarship (IST Austria summer internship; ~2% acceptance rate) (2022).

• Award of Extracurricular Activities, Sharif University of Technology (2020).

• Ranked top 0.1% (143/150,000+) in Iranian Mathematics & Physics university entrance exam (Konkour) (2018).

Skills

Core (depth): Python, ML system design, device-to-cloud integration, signal processing

ML / Data: PyTorch, TensorFlow, deep learning, foundation models, PCA/UMAP, time-frequency analysis (STFT/Wavelets), CFC

Product / Infra: AWS, Linux, Docker, Ansible, SQL/MySQL, Flask, React, NGINX, Flutter

Languages: C/C++, Rust, MATLAB, JavaScript/TypeScript

Languages

Persian: Native

English: Full professional proficiency

German: Basic