Chemometrics Lab

 

Ph.D. Student & member of Prof. Jalali research group

 

 

 

 

Ahmad Mani

 

Chemometrics Lab., Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

 

 

 

 

Ahmad.mani.varnos@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

Science is a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898-1988)

 

 

 

Main research interests and projects:

 

 

Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship

 

 

Application of Artificial Neural Networks for modeling of the biological activities of drug like molecules

 

 

Application of Spline functions for the model development

 

 

Development of the optimization  methods for variable selection and pattern recognition studies

 

 

 

Classification of anti-HIV compounds

 

 

 

Awards and honors:

 

 

 

Rank four for MS entrance exam in the field of analytical chemistry

 

 

Rank four for the eleventh national Olympiad of chemistry held in Iran.

 

 

Rank three for MS entrance exam in the field of inorganic chemistry

 

 

 

 

 

Journal Publications:

M. Jalali-Heravi, A. Mani-Varnosfaderani, SAR. QSAR. Env. Res. 22, 2011, 293-314.

 

 

M. Jalali-Heravi, A. Mani-Varnosfaderani, QSAR. Comb. Sci, 28, 2009, 946-958.

 

 

 

M. Jalali-Heravi, M. Asadollahi-Baboli, A. Mani-Varnosfaderani, Pharm. Biomed. Anal. 50, 2009, 853-860.

 

Conferences:

 

1- M. Jalali-Heravi, A. Mani-Varnosfaderani, A. Bigdeli, Application of robust nonlinear

regression techniques for unraveling quantitative structure activity relationships in drug design,

241st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA.

2- M. Jalali-Heravi, A. Mani-Varnosfaderani, A. Bigdeli, M. R. Lotfi, Classification and

similarity analysis of leads and drug-like molecules using artificial neural networks, decision

trees and virtual screening methods, 241st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA.

3- M. Jalali-Heravi, A. Mani-Varnosfaderani, M. M. Mahmoodi, M. Taherinia, P. E. Jahromi,

A molecular library for classification and similarity analysis of anti-HIV compounds, ACS

symposium, ACS, March 21-25, 2010 San Francisco, California, USA.

4- A. Mani-Varnosfaderani, M. Jalali-Heravi, Combination of local search methods with

Bayesian regularized genetic neural networks: QSAR study of α4β7 and α4β1 integrin

antagonists, 11Th conference of chemometrics, Budapest, Hungary, 2009, September.

5- M. A. Baboli, A. Mani-Varnosfaderani, M. Jalali-Heravi, Application of spline functions for

modeling the activity of SARS inhibitors, 11Th conference of chemometrics, Budapest, Hungary,

2009, September.

6- M. Jalali-Heravi, A. Mani-Varnosfaderani, Classification of glutamate inhibitors using

decision trees and counter propagation artificial neural networks, Oral presentation, 17 th

symposium of analytical chemistry, Kashan, Iran, 2010, September.

7- M. Jalali-Heravi, A. Mani-Varnosfaderani, Application of Bayesian adaptive regression

splines for QSAR modeling of glutamate inhibitors, Oral presentation, Biannual seminar of

chemometrics, Urumiah, Iran, 2009, December.

8- M. Jalali-Heravi, A. Mani-Varnosfaderani, Combination of pattern search optimization and

fuzzy inference system as a method for rule extraction from complex systems, Poster

Presentation,16th seminar of analytical chemistry, Hamedan, Iran, 2009, June.

9. A. Mani-Varnosfaderani, M. Jalali-Heravi, Exploring general structure-activity relationships:

Classification of acetyl cholinesterase and β-secretase inhibitors, Accepted as oral presentation,

18 th symposium of analytical chemistry, Zahedan, Iran, 2011, May.

10. A. Bigdeli, A. Mani-Varnosfaderani, M. Jalali-Heravi, QSAR study of anti-diabetic

inhibitors using artificial neural network modeling assisted with linear and non-linear variable

selection methods, Accepted as poster presentation, 18 th symposium of analytical chemistry,

Zahedan, Iran, 2011, May.