Dr. Amirtahà Taebi is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Mississippi State University. He is an Associate Editor in BMC Research Notes and a Guest Editor in several journals including Bioengineering. Before joining MSU, he was a postdoctoral fellow 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 after completing his M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2013. Before joining Polimi, he earned his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the 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 hosting coffee hours with scientists to help promote diversity in academia by providing a forum in which researchers of different backgrounds can comfortably share ideas. Additionally, he creates educational content for free online courses.