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RAHIM RAHIMI
PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR - ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

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Purdue Faculty Profile
Rahim Rahimi is an Assistant Professor in the School of Materials Engineering and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He earned his B.S. (2008) and M.S. (2011) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology, and his Ph.D. (2017) degree and post-doctoral (2018) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Purdue University, USA. His research has explored development of innovative, scalable, multifunctional, microsystem platforms for medical applications, with emphasis on smart wearable and autonomous devices for wound monitoring and therapy. His research on smart dressing for burn victims and stretchable embroidered electronics has been featured in various news media, including Science Nation, Science360, The Computer World, and Science X. During his graduate and post-graduate career, he has co-authored over 50 publications in world renowned journals and international conferences as well as book chapter and patents. Dr. Rahimi has also has led research teams on multi-institutional research endeavors focused on developing scalable manufacturing processes of flexible electronic devices that can empower technologies for health-care and environmental monitoring.​

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Current Members

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Sarath Gopalakrishnan

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PhD student
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research focus:
  • Wireless sensor for environmental and healthcare monitoring applications.
  • ​Smart ingestible electronics.
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Sina Nejati

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PhD student
Materials Engineering
Research focus:
  • Smart capsule for targeted Microbiome sampling throughout the GI tract.
  • Responsive polymers for biosensing
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Sotoudeh Sedaghat

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PhD student
Materials Engineering
Research focus:
  • Laser induced functional metal oxides for sensors and biomedical applications. 
  • Low cost sensors precision agriculture and environmental monitoring.
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Ulisses Rivera

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PhD student
Materials Engineering
Research focus:
  • Conductive polymers for flexible wireless radiation sensing.
  • Cold atmospheric plasma deposition of functional conductive polymers.
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Venkat Kasi

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PhD student
Materials Engineering
Research focus:
  • Robust packaging of flexible hybrid electronics or wearable applications
  • Cold atmospheric plasma deposition corrosion protection barriers.
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Akshay Kishnakumar

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PhD student
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research focus:
  • Robust packaging of flexible hybrid electronics or wearable applications
  • Cold atmospheric plasma deposition corrosion protection barriers.
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Devendra Sarnaik

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PhD student
Materials Engineering
Research focus:
  • Smart ingestible capsule for targeted sampling and sensing throughout GI tract
  • Antibacterial coatings for implantable and wearable biomedical devices
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Masud Rana

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PhD student
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research focus:
  • Remote monitoring platfroms for real-time physical and chemical signals in soil
  • ​Low power wireless electronics for monitoring early signs of UTI
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Rithu Thomas

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MS student
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research focus:
  • Design and integration of low power electronics for smart ingestible devices
  • Remote wide area distribution of sensor for precision agriculture applications
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Former Members

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Dr. Amin Zareei

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PhD in Materials Engineering
Research focus:
  • Scalable additive manufacturing and nondestructive sintering of printed circuit for flexible hybrid electronics.​​
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Current position:

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Dr. Jose Fernando Waimin

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PhD in Materials Engineering
Research focus:
  • ​​Integration of stimuli responsive polymers with electrochemical sensors for monitoring microbial activity in agriculture and healthcare applications.
Current position: 
R&D engineer at Intel 
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Dr. Alexander Graber Roth

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​PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Research focus:
  • ​​Wearable portable ozone delivery system for treatment of infected wounds.
  • Portable sensors for rapid detection of food borne pathogens.
Current position: 
Assistant Professor at Taylor University
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Dr. Rupesh Kumar Mishra

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PostDoc in Materials Engineering
Research focus:
  • Scalable additive manufacturing of biosensors for COVID detection

Current position:
Lead Research Scientist at IdentifySensors
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Dr. Sachin Kadian

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PostDoc in Materials Engineering
Research focus:
  • Scalable manufacturing of graphene quantum dots for delivery of therapeutic

Current position:
Postdoc at North Carolina State University​
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Dr. Vidhya Selvamani

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PostDoc in Materials Engineering
Research focus:
  • Laser Nanotexturing of implantable devices for enhance bone mineralization an antibacterial properties
Current position:
Specialist at Thermo Fisher Scientific 
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Dr. Hongjie Jiang

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PostDoc in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research focus:
  • Scalable manufacturing of low cost electrochemical sensors for monitoring water runoff in precision agriculture
Current position:
Assistant Professor at ​Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering
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Spencer Dylan Hagaman

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Rachel Hurby

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Allison Thornton

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Nicholas Kerr

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Ethan Binkley

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Allison Thornton

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 Lucia Alexandre

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Natalie Carter

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Simon Ray

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Zuha Adeel

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Sookyoung Jeong

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Julia White

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