Hadi Zaatiti

Hadi Zaatiti

Portrait of Hadi Zaatiti

Research scientist
NYU Abu Dhabi
MEG and EEG labs

I'm a research scientist in the MEG and EEG labs at NYU Abu Dhabi, where I help design experiments, look after the instruments and write analysis code. My background is in the modelling and simulation of dynamical systems, which I worked on at the CEA, IRT SystemX and Airbus Defence and Space before moving to neuroscience.

Nine simulated sensor traces running left to right. Around two thirds of the way along, a sharp spike followed by a slow wave appears on most of them, pointing up on the upper traces and down on the lower ones.

What I'm working on

With Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Epilepsy in the brain

A joint project between the MEG lab at NYU Abu Dhabi and the epilepsy team at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. Magnetoencephalography picks up the magnetic fields of brain activity from outside the head, which makes it a way to look closely at where epileptic activity starts.

NYU Abu Dhabi, since 2024

NeuroWaves

The documentation, experiment code and processing pipelines behind the MEG and EEG labs. It covers how data is recorded, checked against the BIDS standard and analysed, so that a study can be rerun by someone who was not in the room.

With Stanford and Inria, 2018 to 2022

Geomstats

An open-source Python package for geometry and statistics on manifolds. I was its third contributor, working on graph-structured data and on learning methods for automata.

Before neuroscience

2022 to 2024

System designer, MBSE and simulation specialist
Airbus Defence and Space

Model manager for the Future Combat Air System and EuroDrone programmes. I also taught model-based systems engineering and simulation at Airbus Academy.

2018 to 2022

System architect for autonomous vehicles, data scientist
IRT SystemX

Designed, specified and modelled an autonomous shuttle system with RATP, Transdev, SNCF, Renault and others. In the same years I taught system modelling and simulation at CentraleSupélec.

2015 to 2018

Research engineer and doctoral student
CEA and Université Paris-Saclay

My thesis was on the modelling and qualitative simulation of hybrid systems: finite state machines coupled with differential equations, checked for safety with SMT solvers.

The CV has the full record, with education and teaching.

Tools I work with

Neuroscience

MNE-Python, FieldTrip, BESA, BIDS

Programming

Python, C and C++, Java, PyTorch, NumPy, Git, Linux, Jenkins

Formal methods

SAT and SMT solving, UPPAAL, Z3, QepCAD, dReach

Systems engineering

MBSE, UAF, Cameo Systems Modeler, Enterprise Architect, DOORS, MATLAB and Simulink, LabVIEW

Geometry and learning

Riemannian geometry, manifolds, graph learning, automata learning

Contact

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

I'm glad to hear about research collaborations and about modelling or simulation problems, in neuroscience or outside it.

hadizaatiti@gmail.com