Dr. Amirtahà Taebi

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Principal Investigator

Dr. Amirtahà Taebi is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Lehigh University. 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.

Dr. Taebi received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, in 2018. He holds an M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2013, where he was a member of the Luigi Divieti Laboratory for Analysis of Posture and Movement. 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 creating educational content for free online courses.