Meet Our Team
Amirtahà Taebi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of
Biomedical Engineering
130 Creelman St.
222 J. Charles Lee Agricultural & Biological Engineering Building
Mississippi State, MS 39762
+1 (662) 325 - 5987
Dr. Amirtahà Taebi is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Mississippi State University. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award and was named an ASME Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering. He was also recognized with an honorable mention for the Skalak Award by the ASME Bioengineering Division. His work focuses on developing AI-powered sensing technologies, wearable and contactless monitoring systems, and digital twin modeling to advance noninvasive cardiovascular diagnostics. His research has been supported by local, state, and federal agencies, including the NSF, NIH, and Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning.
Dr. Taebi serves as an Associate Editor for BMC Research Notes and an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports. He is an active member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Heart Association, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a voting member of the IEEE EMBS Technical Community on Wearable Biomedical Sensors & Systems.
Before joining MSU, he completed his postdoctoral training in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he had the pleasure of working with Dr. Simon Cherry and Dr. Emilie Roncali from 2018 to 2021. In the industrial setting, he led the Advanced Signal Processing team at Infrasonix, Inc., a biomedical engineering start-up based in GA, from 2020 to 2021.
Dr. Taebi received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, in 2018. He holds an M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2013, where he was a member of the Luigi Divieti Laboratory for Analysis of Posture and Movement. He earned his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, in 2010.
Outside of work, he enjoys hiking, cooking, playing the piano, gaming on Xbox, and spending time with family and friends. He also enjoys creating educational content for free online courses.