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Ali Fele-Paranj · MSc, MASc, BSc

alifele@student.ubc.ca · alifele.github.io

Education

• PhD in Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada — 2025–present.
  Advisors: Miranda Holmes-Cerfon and Lior Silberman.
  Research: statistical physics and stochastic processes.
• MSc in Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada — 2023–2025.
  Advisor: Leah Edelstein-Keshet. Research: mathematical biology.
• MASc in Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada — 2021–2023.
  Advisor: Arman Rahmim. Research: systems biology.
• BSc in Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran — 2016–2021.
  Research: experimental physics.

Research Experience

• Remote Research Project, CERN, Remote — Jul 2020–Mar 2021.
  Worked on developing a Paul trap. Project report.
• Summer Student, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland — Jul–Aug 2019.
  Used numerical simulations to study an antimatter beamline. Project report.

Teaching Experience

• Senior Teaching Assistant, Math Learning Centre, University of British Columbia — 2023–present.
  Teaching support for undergraduate and graduate mathematics courses.

Expository Notes

Selected lecture and self-study notes (linked PDFs).

• Probability I and Stochastic Processes
• Smooth Manifolds — self-study, summer 2024
• Real Analysis I and II
• Partial Differential Equations
• Dynamical Systems

Awards and Honours

• Early Career Award — 2022.
  Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
• First place, CERN Webfest Hackathon — 2020.
  Developed a platform addressing heart issues in patients with COVID-19 symptoms.
• CERN Research Fund — 2019.

Publications

Preprints

1. Tighe McAsey, Sushrut Tadwalkar, Ali Fele-Paranj, Miranda Holmes-Cerfon. Optimal interactions for addressable self-assembly. arXiv:2606.31838, 30 June 2026.

Journal articles and book chapters

1. Jupiter Algorta, Ali Fele-Paranj, Jack M. Hughes, Leah Edelstein-Keshet. Modeling and Simulating Single and Collective Cell Motility. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives volume on Cell Migration, 2024.
2. Ali Fele-Paranj, Babak Saboury, Carlos Uribe, Arman Rahmim. Physiologically based radiopharmacokinetic (PBRPK) modeling to simulate and analyze radiopharmaceutical therapies: studies of non-linearities, multi-bolus injections, and albumin binding. EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry, 2024.
3. Hamid Abdollahi, Fereshteh Yousefirizi, Isaac Shiri, Julia Brosch-Lenz, Elahe Mollaheydar, Ali Fele-Paranj, Kuangyu Shi, Habib Zaidi, Ian Alberts, Madjid Soltani, and others. Theranostic digital twins: Concept, framework and roadmap towards personalized radiopharmaceutical therapies. Theranostics, 2024.
4. Hamid Abdollahi, Ali Fele-Paranj, Arman Rahmim. Model-Informed Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Optimization: A Study on the Impact of PBPK Model Parameters on Physical, Biological, and Statistical Measures in 177Lu-PSMA Therapy. Cancers, 2024.
5. Arman Rahmim, Julia Brosch-Lenz, Ali Fele-Paranj, Fereshteh Yousefirizi, Madjid Soltani, Carlos Uribe, Babak Saboury. Theranostic digital twins for personalized radiopharmaceutical therapies: Reimagining theranostics via computational nuclear oncology. Frontiers in Oncology, 2022.
6. Hoda Sadeghzadeh, Somayyeh Koohi, Ali Fele-Paranj. Free-space Optical Neural Network Based on Optical Nonlinearity and Pooling Operations. IEEE Access, 2021.

Work in Preparation

1. Ali Fele-Paranj, Leah Edelstein-Keshet. Multiscale Quantification of Vascular Networks: Angiogenesis, Remodeling, and Radiation Effects. Draft.
2. A Data Set of Graph Structure of Human Retina Images. Dataset repository.

Theses

• MSc thesis in Mathematics, University of British Columbia — 2025.
  Form, function, and remodeling of vascular networks.
  Advisor: Leah Edelstein-Keshet.
• MASc thesis in Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia — 2023.
  Use of physiologically based radiopharmacokinetic (PBRPK) models to simulate radiopharmaceutical therapies.
  Advisor: Arman Rahmim.

Selected Conferences and Talks

1. Ali Fele-Paranj, Leah Edelstein-Keshet. Generation and Evolution of Vascular Networks. Canadian Society of Mathematics, 2024.
2. Hamid Abdollahi, Ali Fele-Paranj, Arman Rahmim. Enhancing Dose Predictions in Radiopharmaceutical Therapies by Applying Machine Learning to Time-Activity Curve Features: A Simulation Study using PBPK Modeling. Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2024.
3. Ali Fele-Paranj, Carlos Uribe, Hamid Abdollahi, Elaheh Mollaheydar, Niloufar Zakariaei, Md Shahriar Rahim Siddiqui, Babak Saboury, Arman Rahmim. In Silico Investigation of The Effect of Multi-Bolus Injections in Absorbed Doses to Organs and Tumors in Radiopharmaceutical Therapies. Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2023.
4. Ali Fele-Paranj, Julia Brosch-Lenz, Carlos Uribe, Babak Saboury, Arman Rahmim. Non-linearities in the transition from imaging radiotracers to therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals. Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2022.
5. Ali Fele-Paranj, Julia Brosch-Lenz, Carlos Uribe, Arman Rahmim, Babak Saboury. Modular model architecture for radiopharmaceutical therapy planning: Physiologically-Based RadioPharmacoKinetics (PBRPK) implementation. Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2022.

Selected Projects

• LED-operated photocatalytic reactor — 2021.
  Designed a reactor with a tunable spectrum using a PyQt interface and STM32 (ARM Cortex-M), for semiconductor-based decomposition of dyes and harmful chemicals in research led by A. Z. Moshfegh.
• White-light OCT data acquisition system — 2020.
  Programmed an FPGA and STM32 microcontroller for high-speed data acquisition and developed a graphical user interface.
• Neuro Land — 2019.
  Educational neural simulation platform with a graphical interface and extensible measurement capabilities.
• Modular pulsatile heart pump.
  Modular pneumatic pulsatile heart-pump concept for use alongside continuous-flow pumps in operating rooms.

Skills

• Programming: Python, C/C++, Java, MATLAB; embedded systems (STM32, embedded Linux).