Profile

I'm a third-year Ph.D. student with the STIM Lab at the University of Houston, where I am advised by Dr. David Mayerich. My current research focuses on creating GPU-accelerated computational methods for modeling and analyzing gigavoxel-scale data. My work is supported by the NIH Graduate Research Fellowship. I earned my B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Control Systems from Tehran Polytechnic University in 2021.

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

Teaching


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

Certificates


Machine Learning
Issued: September 2021

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