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 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awardee and has been selected as an ASME Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Taebi is an Associate Editor in BMC Research Notes, an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports, and a Guest Editor in several journals including Bioengineering. The goal of his research is to develop noninvasive and remote methods and devices for cardiovascular monitoring. His research has been supported by local, state, and federal agencies, including the NSF and Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning.
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 is a member of several professional societies including, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Heart Association, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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, where he was a member of the Luigi Divieti Laboratory for Analysis of Posture and Movement. Before joining Polimi, 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 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.