Aida Ebrahimi

Dr. Ebrahimi is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering (BME; courtesy), and holds the Thomas and Sheila Roell Early Career Professorship in Electrical Engineering. She also serves as a MatSe and BME faculty of the Intercollege Graduate Degree Program (IGDP) at Penn State. Dr. Ebrahimi’s research revolves around developing novel bioanalytical platforms (electronic, electrochemical, and optical), printable/stretchable/wearable sensors, studying low-dimensional materials for biochemical sensing, and convergence of data analytical tools (e.g. machine learning) for advanced sensing. Applications are diverse, ranging from in vitro cell studies and point-of-care diagnostics (especially infectious diseases) to human-computer interface, rehabilitation, drug screening, in situ study of bacterial phenotypes, among others.

Dr. Ebrahimi is a recipient of several awards and scholarships for outstanding research performance, including NSF CAREER Award (2023), IEEE Senior Member, Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award (2022), NIH: NIBIB Trailblazer Award (2021), SPARC Clinical-Research Exchange Fellowship (Penn State, 2020), Scialog Fellow in Microbiome, Neurobiology and Disease (Research Corporation for Science Advancement, 2020-2023), Dean’s Certificate of Excellence (Penn State, since 2019), Multidisciplinary Research Award (Penn State College of Engineering, 2019), the Materials-Life Science Convergence Award (Penn State, 2018), the Humanitarian Materials Award (Penn State, 2017), Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship Award (Purdue University, 2015), Rising Star in EECS (MIT, 2015), Meissner Fellowship Award (Purdue University, 2011), among others. Dr. Ebrahimi is a member of the IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS), the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), the Electrochemical Society (ECS; Member-at-Large: Sensor Division; Faculty Advisor for Penn State Student Chapter), the American Chemical Society (ACS), and the Materials Research Society (MRS).