I am a 5th-year PhD candidate in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Irvine, where I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Rahim Esfandyarpour. I earned my BSc from the University of Tehran, and I’m very proud to be part of its alumni🎓.
🔥News
Dec. 2025: ***
That HUGE stress-assessment wearable project I’ve been leading? 🤯 The paper just got accepted into Nature Communications! 🤩 Best PhD day: 12/08/2025! 🗓️
And get this: this is our research team’s FIRST EVER Nature paper! 🥇 I’m talking about the Nature Communications! 📰 Seriously the best news ever. Time to celebrate hard! 🍾🥳🎉🚀
- Sept. 2025: I succesfully completed my Internship at Nokia Bell Labs Artificial Intelligence Research Team! 🎯 Where I desinged TrackAgent a comprehensive AI agent for real-time pose-aware tracking and reasoning for industrial safety under occlusion and visual similarity 😎!
- June 2025: Our paper “Development of a Functional 3D Colon Model for the Induction and Monitoring of Diseases” was accepted in Advanced Science 😎
- March 2025: We won the best poster award at Flexible Microelectronics in Bioelectronics symposium for my paper “Optimization of process parameters in 3D-nanomaterials printing for enhanced uniformity, quality, and dimensional precision using physics-guided artificial neural network” 🏆🎉!
- Nov. 2024: I’m so excited and honored to be chosen as a 2024-2025 Public Impact Fellow 🏆😍! Such an incredible opportunity!
- Oct. 2024: Yay! I’ve been awarded the SPIE Photonics West 2025 Student Conference Support 🏅🤩! See you all in San Francisco 🌉🚃!
- Sept. 2024: Our team got three paper accepted in SPIE Photonics West 2025!
- Aug. 2024: I recieved the IEEE BSN 2024 Student Travel Award! Next stop: Chicago🌃
- July 2024: Excited to share that four of our papers have been accepted for IEEE BSN 2024! 💪😎
- July 2024: Part of our collaborative work on HealthCam project with Mitsubishi Electric have been accepted for IEEE BSN 2024!
Selected Publications
- The Role of Large Language Models in Emergency Care: A Comprehensive Benchmarking Study, Borna Naderi, Longsha Liu, Anita Ghandehari, Neil Bhavsar, Darius Khoshons, Shriman Balasubramanian, Christian Davidson, Robert Tanouye, Justin Norden, Andrew Taylor, Rahul Sharma, Alexander Fortenko, Under Review In NEJM AI 😍
- Machine-Learning Based Multi-Modal Battery-less Wearable Patch for Stress Monitoring, Anita Ghandehari*, Xiaochang Pei*, Jerome Rajendran, Sang Won Lee, Shingirirai Michael Chakoma, Sahar Najafi Khoshnoo, Qian Yi, Rahim Esfandyarpour, Under review in Nature Communication 💥😁
- In-Situ Regenerable, Environmentally Stable, Multimodal Molecular Sensing Wearable Bioelectronics for Long-Term Health Assessment in Everyday Settings, Jerome Rajendrana, Xiaochang Peia, Shingirirai chakomaa, Anita Ghandehari, Sahar NajafiKhoshnooa, Jorge A. Tavares-Negrete, and Rahim Esfandyarpour Under Review In Nature Biomedical Engineering 🔥😎🤞
- Optimization of process parameters in 3D-nanomaterials printing for enhanced uniformity, quality, and dimensional precision using physics-guided artificial neural network, Anita Ghandehari, Jorge A Tavares-Negrete, Jerome Rajendran, Qian Yi, Rahim Esfandyarpour, In Discover Nano
- Optimizing NFC-Based Wearable Sensors for Arterial Pulse Monitoring: A Comparative Study of Sampling Rates and Machine Learning Models, Anita Ghandehari, Jorge Alfonso Tavares-Negrete, Xiaochang Pei, Jerome Rajendran, Shingirirai Chakoma, Rahim Esfandyarpour, In BSN 2024
- EEMD. VMD, DMD, and FFT in Remote Photoplethysmography for Contactless Heart Rate and Respiration Rate Measurement, Matthew Lo, Jingfeng Chen, Siana Jimenez, Francisco Aguirre, Anita Ghandehari, Zafer Sahinoglu, Farzad Ahmadkhanlou, In BSN 2024
- A passive, reusable, and resonating wearable sensing system for on-demand, non-invasive, and wireless molecular stress biomarker detection, Shingirirai Chakoma*, Xiaochang Pei*, Huiting Qin*, Anita Ghandehari, Sahar NajafiKhoshnoo, Jerome Rajendran, Rahim Esfandyarpour, In Nano Research