Shaerdan studied Mechanical Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology in his undergraduate years and finished a master degree on Aerospace Engineering, specializing Computational Aerodynamics. He attended a postgraduate course at University of Bristol during Sep 2013 to January 2014 doing Computational Fluid Dynamics before coming to Bath.

Research project title:
Inverse problems for brain imaging

Supervisor(s):
Chris Budd

Project description:
Imaging is a fast growing area driven by its importance in real life application as well as its mathematical challenge. In the field of brain research, imaging brain activity serves as part of the ambition to understand some fundamental questions about cognition and perception. Mathematically, the problem could be perceived as two levels of the inverse problem: first to solve the source intensity image from the scalp measurement, second to infer the cause of source activity from source intensity image solved from the first part. Shaerdan worked to locate the active sources of brainwaves, given measurements of EEG on the surface of the scalp.