Niema Pahlevan

Niema Pahlevan is the Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair in Engineering and Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and Medicine at the University of Southern California. He earned his PhD from the California Institute of Technology (2013), following an M.S. from California State University, Northridge (2007) and a B.S. from the University of Tehran (2001). His research focuses on cardiovascular fluid dynamics, heart-aorta-brain coupling, and arterial waveform analysis for noninvasive diagnostics, with recent breakthroughs including the wave-pumping effect of aortic stretch and time-frequency machine learning for central pressure waveforms. A Fellow of the American Heart Association and Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors, he received the 2025 ASME Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering award and an NSF CAREER grant. His collaborations span institutions across the US, France, Switzerland, China, and Germany.