Profile

I'm a third-year Ph.D. student with the Scalable Tissue Imaging and Modeling Lab at the University of Houston, advised by Dr. David Mayerich. My current research includes developing 3D tensor voting algorithms and visualization tools for surface reconstruction and feature extraction, with a focus on scalable, high-dimensional parallel implementations. I earned my Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (with a focus on Control Systems) from Tehran Polytechnic University in 2021.

You can explore some of my work including interactive 3D visualizations and recent publications below!


Publications


Segmentation and Modeling of Large-Scale Microvascular Networks: A Survey
Helya Goharbavang, Joshua D. Wythe, Guoning Chen and David Mayerich
Manuscript submitted for publication
Closed-Form GPU-Accelerated Tensor Voting with Refinement
Helya Goharbavang, Omar Baig, Guoning Chen and David Mayerich
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2025
GPU-Accelerated RSF Level Set Evolution for Large-Scale Microvascular Segmentation
Meher Niger, Helya Goharbavang, Taeyong Ahn, Emily K. Alley, Joshua D. Wythe, Guoning Chen and David Mayerich
Manuscript under review

Certifications


Machine Learning
Issued: September 2021

Teaching


GPU and Heterogeneous Programming
Teaching Assistant
UH, Spring 2024
Advanced Computer Programming
Teaching Assistant
Tehran Polytechnic, Fall 2017

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