Principal Investigator

Neda Maghsoodi
WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics (2024-27)
Chair of 37th Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Sound, ASME IDETC 2025
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- Postdoc., California Institute of Technology (2020-2022).
- Postdoc., Harvard University (2019-2021)
- Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (2015-2019).
- M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (2015-2017).
- M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (2011-2013).
- B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran (2007-2011).
Honors and Awards:
- 2025 Future Technology Leader Award, The Engineers’ Council.
- 2024 Invited to the Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering.
- 2023 Charles Lee Powell Faculty Research Award, USC.
- 2022 WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professorship, USC.
- 2020 Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering, UC-Berkeley.
- 2018 Rackham Graduate Research Grant, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
- 2016 Best Paper Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
- 2015 Rackham Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
- 2012 Best B.Sc. Thesis of the Year, Iranian Society of Acoustics and Vibration.
Ph.D. Students

Alireza Ahmadi
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
email: alirezaa@usc.edu

Arian Hosseini
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
email: arianhos@usc.edu
Past Members
Sungmo Park (Master student, 2023)
Arvind Rajasekaran (Master student, 2023)
Regan Son (SHINE student, summer 2023)
Marcus Pegal (SHINE student, summer 2023)