63502-Pashaei, Elnaz

Elnaz Pashaei, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical & Molecular Genetics

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Bio

Elnaz Pashaei is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the IU School of Medicine, Department of Medical & Molecular Genetics, Indianapolis, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, and an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science and Software Engineering from universities in Iran.

Dr. Pashaei has previously held academic roles, including Assistant Professor at Istanbul Aydin University, where she made substantial contributions to teaching and research.

Her research focuses on developing computational algorithms to address challenges in bioinformatics, particularly in genomic data analysis, gene selection, cancer detection, and biomarker discovery. 

Key Publications

     

Elnaz Pashaei, Sheng Liu, Kailing Li, Yong Zang, Lei Yang, Tim Lautenschlaeger, Jun Huang, Xin Lu, Jun Wan, DiCE: differential centrality-ensemble analysis based on gene expression profiles and protein–protein interaction network, Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 53, Issue 13, 2025, gkaf609, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf609
Elnaz Pashaei, Elham Pashaei, and Nizamettin Aydin, “Biomarker Identification for Alzheimer’s Disease Using a Multi-Filter Gene Selection Approach,” International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 26, 2025, no. 5: 1816. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms26051816.
Elnaz Pashaei, Elham Pashaei, and Seyedali Mirjalili, “ Binary Hiking Optimization for Gene Selection: Insights from HNSCC RNA- Seq Data,” Expert Systems with Applications, Expert Systems with Applications, vol 268, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.126404
Sheng Liu, Hye Seung Nam, Ziyu Zeng, Xuehong Deng, Elnaz Pashaei, Yong Zang, Lei Yang, Chenglong Li, Jiaoti Huang, Michael K Wendt, Xin Lu, Rong Huang, Jun Wan, CDHu40: a novel marker gene set of neuroendocrine prostate cancer, Briefings in Bioinformatics, vol 25, Issue 6, November 2024, bbae471, https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbae471

Elnaz Pashaei and Elham Pashaei, “Gene selection using hybrid dragonfly black hole algorithm: a case study on RNA-seq COVID-19 data,” Analytical Biochemistry, vol. 627, pp. 114242, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2021.114242.

Elnaz Pashaei and Nizamettin Aydin, “Binary Black Hole Algorithm for Feature Selection and Classification on Biological Data,” Applied Soft Computing, vol. 56, pp. 94–106, 2017.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2017.03.002

Elnaz Pashaei, Elham Pashaei, Maryam Ahmady, Mustafa Ozen, Nizamettin Aydin, “Meta-analysis of miRNA Expression Profiles for Prostate Cancer Recurrence following Radical Prostatectomy,” PLoS ONE, vol. 12, no. 6, 2017, Art. no e0179543. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179543

 

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