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<h1 class="content-listing-header sans">About</h1>

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Hi! I'm Rami and I am currently working as a Research Engineer under the supervision of Prof. Wenzel Jakob at the <b><i><a href="https://rgl.epfl.ch">Realistic Graphics Lab (RGL)</a></i></b> at <i>EPFL</i> in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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In another life I was a mathematician, completing a Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics at the <i>University of Melbourne</i>, Australia. I have over 10 years of industry experience spanning a wide-range of domains including medical imaging, geospatial intelligence and game development. Immediately prior to joining RGL, I was a Software Engineer in Rendering at <i>Electronic Arts</i>, working on their in-house game engine, <a href="https://www.ea.com/frostbite">Frostbite</a>.
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<h1 class="content-listing-header sans">Industry experience</h1>

<h3 class="content-listing-header sans">Game development</h3>
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<b>Software Engineer in Rendering</b> at <i>Electronic Arts (Frostbite)</i> - Melbourne, Australia
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<b>Senior Software Engineer</b> at <i>Wargaming</i> - Sydney, Australia
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<b>Senior Software Engineer</b> at <i>Fugro</i> - Brisbane, Australia
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<b>Research Engineer</b> at <i>The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health</i> - Melbourne, Australia
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<h3 class="content-listing-header sans">Other</h3>
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<b>Software Engineer</b> at <i>Xamarin</i> - Melbourne, Australia
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<h3 class="content-listing-header sans">Medical Imaging</h3>

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  <i>Tabbara, R., Connelly, A., & Calamante, F.</i> Multi-stage automated local arterial input function selection in perfusion MRI. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine (2019): 1-9.
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  <i>Tournier, J. D., Smith, R., Raffelt, D., Tabbara, R., Dhollander, T., Pietsch, M., ... & Connelly, A.</i>  MRtrix3: A fast, flexible and open software framework for medical image processing and visualisation. NeuroImage (2019): 116137
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  <i>Tabbara, R., Calamante, F. & Connelly, A.</i> Automatic selection of local arterial input functions in perfusion MRI using cluster analysis and priority-flooding. 26th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Paris, France. (2018)
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<h3 class="content-listing-header sans">Mathematical Physics</h3>

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<i>Tabbara, R., A. L. Owczarek, and A. Rechnitzer.</i> An exact solution of three interacting friendly walks in the bulk. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 49.15 (2016): 154004.

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<i>Tabbara, R., Owczarek, A. L., and Rechnitzer, A.</i> Counting two interacting friendly walks near an attractive surface. Discrete Maths Seminar, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Science, Vancouver, Canada. (2014)
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<i>Tabbara, R., A. L. Owczarek, and A. Rechnitzer.</i> An exact solution of two friendly interacting directed walks near a sticky wall. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 47.1 (2013): 015202.
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<i>Tabbara, R., Owczarek, A. L., and Rechnitzer, A.</i> Multiple interacting directed walks. The Australian and New Zealand Association of Mathematical Physics Annual Meeting, Mooloolaba, Australia. (2013)
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<i>Tabbara, R., and A. L. Owczarek. Pulling a polymer with anisotropic stiffness near a sticky wall.</i> Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 45.43 (2012): 435002.
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<i>Tabbara, R., and Owczarek, A. L.</i> Exact solution of a simple adsorption model of denaturating DNA. The Australian and New Zealand Association of Mathematical Physics Annual Meeting, Lorne, Australia. (2012)
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<i>Tabbara, R., and Owczarek, A. L.</i> The adsorption of an asymmetric stretched semi-flexible polymer. Annual Statistical Mechanics Meeting, Melbourne, Australia. (2011)
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<i><b><a href="https://www.mrtrix.org">MRtrix3</a></b></i> : A fast, flexible and open software framework to perform advanced diffusion MRI analyses
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<i><b><a href="https://www.mono-project.com">Mono Project</a></b></i> : An open source implementation of <i>Microsoft's .NET</i> framework 
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