Mohsen Annabestani, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
Mohsen Annabestani, Ph.D., is a biomedical engineer and researcher specializing in soft robotics, artificial intelligence, and wearable medical technologies. He earned his M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (2013) and his Ph.D. in Electrical/Biomedical Engineering (2018), focusing on Machine Learning-based models for soft wearable actuators. During his Ph.D., he conducted research at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology on soft robotic catheters.
From 2018 to 2021, he worked at Sharif University of Technology, developing wearable biosensors and AI-reinforced microfluidic chips for point-of-care applications. In 2021, he joined the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy as a postdoctoral fellow, contributing to bio-inspired self-growing robots and soft stretchable actuators.
Currently, Dr. Annabestani is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Weill Cornell Medicine, focusing on the design, fabrication, and development of extended reality-based hardware for minimally invasive interventions, alongside the AI and Machine Learning algorithms required to enhance their functionality. His work aims to bridge AI-driven systems with innovative medical devices to address healthcare challenges.