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, 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.
Elnaz Pashaei, Esra Guzel, Mete Emir Ozgurses, Goksun Demirel, Nizamettin Aydin, Mustafa Ozen, “ A Meta-Analysis: Identification of Common Mir-145 Target Genes that have Similar Behavior in Different GEO Datasets,” PLoS ONE, vol. 11, no. 9, 2016, Art. no. e0161491.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161491
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, 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 and Elham Pashaei, "An efficient binary chimp optimization algorithm for feature selection in biomedical data classification," Neural Computing and Applications, vol. 34, pp. 6427–6451, 2022. 10.1007/s00521-021-06775-0.
Elnaz Pashaei, "An efficient binary sand cat swarm optimization for feature selection in high-dimensional biomedical data," Bioengineering, vol. 10, no. 10, p. 1123, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering10101123

 

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