Dr. Amirtahà Taebi is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Bioengineering at Lehigh University. He joined Lehigh in August 2025. 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 ASME Journal of Medical Diagnostics as well as 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 Lehigh, he was an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Mississippi State University from 2021 to 2025. He completed his postdoctoral training in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Davis 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.
To learn more about Amirtahà and his group at Lehigh, visit their website at taebilab.lehigh.edu.
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