Dr. Rose T. Faghih is an associate professor of Biomedical Engineering at the New York University where she directs the Computational Medicine Laboratory. She received a bachelor’s degree (summa cum laude) in Electrical Engineering (Honors Program Citation) from the University of Maryland, and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from MIT, where she was a member of the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems as well as the MIT Harvard Neuroscience Statistics Research Laboratory. She completed her postdoctoral training at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT as well as the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Faghih is the recipient of various awards including a 2023 National Institutes of Health’s Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award for Early Stage Investigators, an MIT Technology Review 2020 Innovator Under 35 award, a 2020 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a 2020 Research Excellence award as well as a 2020 Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering, a 2016 IEEE-USA New Face of Engineering award, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, an MIT Graduate Fellowship, and the University of Maryland’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chair’s Award. In 2020, she was featured by the IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine as a “Woman to Watch”. Her research interests include wearable technologies, medical cyber-physical systems, neural and biomedical signal processing, as well as control, estimation, and system identification of biomedical and neural systems.
Selected Awards and honors:
2023 Selected by the National Academy of Engineering for the E.U.-U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
2023 NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award for Early Stage Investigators
2023 Faghih laboratory won first place (Areas of Excellence Category), NYU Tandon Research Excellence Exhibit
2022 Selected for the Inaugural Class of the Early Career Distinguished Alumni Society, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
2021 Elected to the grade of Senior Member of IEEE
2020 MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 (visionary category)
2020 National Science Foundation CAREER award
2020 University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering Junior Faculty Research award
2020 University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering Teaching Excellence award
2020 Featured as “Woman to Watch” by IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine
2020 Selected by the New York Academy of Sciences and Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development for the 2020-2021 Interstellar Initiative
2019 Selected by the National Academy of Engineering for the U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (one of the 87 early-career engineers aged 30-45 selected nationwide)
2016 New Face of Engineering, an award for engineers aged 30 years or younger by DiscoverE: One of DiscoverE’s 12 New Faces of Engineering and the IEEE-USA’s New Face of Engineering
2015 Massachusetts General Hospital Clinical Research Day Team Award (contributed as one of the 8 lead authors of TRANSFORM DBS team’s submissions for this award)
2013 Featured on IEEE TV, “I Change the World. I am an Engineer”, Special Series
