Biography

Mehdi Shokoueinejd got his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). Mehdi’s research has focused on the development of noninvasive physiological measurement, IoT medical devices, and biomedical signal processing methods for assessment of the cardiovascular and respiratory system (sensors, identification algorithms, and therapeutic devices). After his position at UW-Madison, he served as a R&D scientist at Boston Scientific, and technical lead at few healthcare-related startup Companies.

Mehdi has managed teams and projects in industrial and academic settings, where he has published over 30 peer reviewed scientific papers and patent records. Mehdi developed and implemented dynamic and successful engineering and clinical procedures and programs for multiple medical device programs from concept to commercialization – medical capital equipment, IoT medical devices, implantable and wearable devices (complete product life cycle).

Mehdi was the recipient of the 2016 IEEE-EMBS, NSF Young Professionals Contributing to Smart and Connected Health, FL. Mehdi won the First Place Grand Award at the 2014 Qualcomm Innovation competition, WI. Mehdi has been extensively involved in organizing and contributing to American research societies. For instance, he has served as the Student Representative of the UW-Madison at the Annual Biomedical Society Meetings.