ECE Alumna Rose Faghih (’08) Honored by IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)

Rose Faghih (’08) has been honored with the 2024 IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Early Career Achievement Award. She was nominated “for pioneering transformative algorithms for next generation health-aware and brain-aware wearable technologies that enable inferring and tracking hidden health and cognitive states dynamically to improve quality of life for all.”

Faghih is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Director of Dr. Rose Faghih NYU’s Computational Medicine Laboratory. After completing her degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, she earned both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Specializing in Biomedical and Neural Signal Processing, Faghih’s research is focused on two main goals: developing algorithms for designs titled MINDWATCH and HEALTHWATCH. The first project, MINDWATCH, is focused on the development of algorithms for wearable technology that can monitor brain activity to improve mental health and performance. HEALTHWATCH focuses on algorithms for another type of wearable sensing devices that will infer heath states such as inflammation, fatigue and metabolism.

In 2022, Faghih was inducted into the A. James Clark School of Engineering Early Career Distinguished Alumni Society. Last year she was awarded the National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators.

She has also received a 2020 National Science Foundation CAREER Award and has been listed by MIT Technology Review’s global list of 35 Innovators Under 35, and by IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine as a “Woman to Watch”. Her additional accolades include a 2016 IEEE-USA New Face of Engineering Award and selection by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering for the 2019 U.S. and the 2023 E.U.-U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Programs and by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for the 2024 U.S.-Africa Frontiers Program. She is a Senior Member of IEEE and earlier this year, she senior-authored an open access book titled "Bayesian Filter Design for Computational Medicine: A State-Space Estimation Framework", published bySpringer.

The IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award is an annual award presented to individuals who are within 10 years of completion of their highest degree and have shown significant contributions to the field of biomedical engineering through innovative research design, product development, patents, and/or publications.

Published September 23, 2024