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Dr. Neda Karami joined the MD´«Ã½Èë¿Ú Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2024. She earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 2021, where her dissertation focused on elastic wave propagation in soft periodic magnetoactive laminates. She also conducted ONR-funded research as a research associate in the Printed Electronics Laboratory at UW–Madison, where she worked on optimizing the electromechanical performance of tunable, wearable coplanar pressure sensors. 

She received several fellowships and scholarships during her education, including the Chester E. & Flora Jane LeRoy Fellowship and an 2021 NSF fellowship for “Mechanistic Machine Learning and Digital Twins for Computational Science." She also collaborated on NSF NRI–funded research at IIT focused on high-integrity navigation for unmanned robots. She earned multiple honors, including ranking 1st in her graduate studies, recognition as a Distinguished Member of the university’s libraries, Best Paper in the Dynamics and Vibrations theme, and Poster Award Winner at Soft Matter (2021). She was further recognized as one of 29 outstanding Rising Stars at the 2018 Stanford–MIT–CU Boulder Women in Aerospace Symposium, and as one of 30 outstanding women in the U.S. selected for the 2021 Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering workshop hosted by MIT. 

Dr. Karami is a Beach Mentor with broad experience in both industry and academia. She has presented and published her work at numerous international conferences and in peer-reviewed journals. Her current research focuses on integrating soft smart materials into human–machine interaction and developing flexible, wearable sensors and actuators. Her work also encompasses the dynamics and control of autonomous, human-compatible, AI-driven robotic systems. She currently serves as a member of the MD´«Ã½Èë¿Ú Institutional and Program Assessment Council (IPAC) and as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals.