Niema Pahlevan

Niema Pahlevan serves as Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Medicine at the University of Southern California, holding the Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair in Engineering since 2022. He joined USC in 2017 with dual appointments in the Viterbi School of Engineering and Keck School of Medicine, following a postdoctoral position at Caltech and clinical research role at Huntington Medical Research Institutes.

His academic credentials include:

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Tehran
• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Northridge
• Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Caltech (2013)

Dr. Pahlevan's research bridges engineering principles with cardiovascular medicine, focusing on hemodynamic modeling and medical device innovation. His work integrates computational fluid dynamics with clinical cardiovascular diagnostics to address challenges in:

• Biomechanics of blood flow
• Cardiovascular device design
• Non-invasive diagnostic methods
• Cardiovascular system modeling
• Medical technology translation
• Physiological fluid mechanics

His research program has been recognized through:

• NSF CAREER Award
• American Heart Association Career Development Award

These competitive awards provide critical grant funding supporting his interdisciplinary research at the engineering-medicine interface.