People

Principal Investigator
Amir M. Rahmani
Professor
Susan and Henry Samueli Endowed Chair in Integrative Health
Nursing and Computer Science, UC Irvine

Co-Director
Institute for Future Health, UC Irvine

Current Graduate Students & Researchers
Nitish Nagesh
Ph.D. Student
CS, UC Irvine
Email
Mahyar Abbasian
Ph.D. Student
CS, UC Irvine
Email
Elahe Khatibi
Ph.D. Student
CS, UC Irvine
Email
Ziyu Wang
Ph.D. Student
CS, UC Irvine
Email
Yutong Song
Ph.D. Student
CS, UC Irvine
Email
Chenhan Lyu
Ph.D. Student
CS, UC Irvine
Email
Saba A. Farahani
Ph.D. Student
EECS, UC Irvine
Email
Hoomaan Sajjadi
Ph.D. Student
EECS, UC Irvine
Email
Hamidreza Alikhani Koshkak
Ph.D. Student
CS, UC Irvine
Email
Li-Chen Cheng
Ph.D. Student
CS, UC Irvine
Email
Yasamin Moghaddas
Ph.D. Student
EECS, UC Irvine
Email
Arshia Ilaty
Ph.D. Student
CS, UC Irvine
Email

Summer Students

Anandika Carthikeyan
Summer Intern
Undergraduate Student
UC Santa Barbara

Summer 2026


Alumni

Ph.D. Alumni

Delaram Amiri

Ph.D. Alum

Dept. of CS

Seyed Amir Hossein Aqajari

Ph.D. Alum

Firmware Engineer, ASR Microelectronics International

Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California, Irvine

Rui Cao

Ph.D. Alum

Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California, Irvine

Maximilian Götzinger

Ph.D. Alum

Dept. of Future Technology, University of Turku, Finland

Yong Huang

Ph.D. Alum

Goldman Sachs

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

Tom Hughes

Ph.D. Alum

Nursing, UC Irvine

Salar Jafarlou

Ph.D. Alum

Meta

Mingzhe Jiang

Ph.D. Alum

Dept. of Future Technology, University of Turku, Finland

Sina Labbaf

Ph.D. Alum

Research Software Engineer, Google

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

Sajad Mallahzadeh

Ph.D. Alum

Dept. of Future Technology, University of Turku, Finland

Milad Asgari Mehrabadi

Ph.D. Alum

University of California Irvine

Emad Kasaeyan Naeini

Ph.D. Alum

University of California Irvine

Mohammad-Reza Nakhkash

Ph.D. Alum

Dept. of Future Technology, University of Turku, Finland

Mahkameh Rasouli

Ph.D. Alum

Ph.D. Candidate, RN, CRNA, UC Irvine School of Nursing

Tarsus Pharmaceuticals

Ali Rostami

Ph.D. Alum

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

Sina Shahhosseini

Ph.D. Alum

University of California Irvine

Ajan Subramanian

Ph.D. Alum

Chief Scientist, Kubo Technologies

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

Elise Syrjälä

Ph.D. Alum

Dept. of Future Technology, University of Turku, Finland

Zhongqi Yang

Ph.D. Alum

Meta

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

M.S. Alumni

Salar Hashemi

M.S. Alum

University of California Irvine

Yucheng Hu

M.S. Alum

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Irvine

Sirui Li

M.S. Alum

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Irvine

Phuc Hoang Tran

M.S. Alum

University of California Irvine

Bushra Zafar

M.S. Alum

Dept. of Future Technology, University of Turku, Finland

Haoyu Zhou

M.S. Alum

UCI MECPS

Postdoctoral Alumni

Iman Azimi

Postdoctoral Alum

Assistant Director, Thrive AI Health

Anil Kanduri

Postdoctoral Alum

Researcher, University of Turku

Hannakaisa Niela-Vilen

Postdoctoral Alum

Senior Researcher, University of Turku

Former Visiting & External Researchers

Arman Anzanpour

Former Visiting Researcher

Researcher, University of Turku

Seongsil Heo

Former Visiting Researcher

Kookmin University, South Korea

Namhyun Kim

Former Visiting Researcher

Kookmin University, South Korea

Riitta Mieronkoski

Former Visiting Researcher

University of Turku

Johanna Saarikko

Former Visiting Researcher

Turku University Hospital

Fatemeh Sarhaddi

Former Visiting Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Turku

Dongju (Alex) Seo

Former Visiting Researcher

Kookmin University, South Korea

Salar Shakibhamedan

Former Visiting Researcher

Ph.D. Candidate, TU Wien

Machine Learning Engineer, Thalos AI Fitness Coach GmbH