Zahra Navabi
Graduate Student
PhD
University of Minnesota, Mechanical Engineering (2024)
MS
University of Minnesota Duluth, Mechanical Engineering (2018)
University of Tabriz, Iran, Mechatronics (2013)
BS
Shahid Behesdi University, Iran, Atomic Physics (2010)
Biosketch
Zahra received an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, in 2018, an M.S. in Mechatronics from the University of Tabriz, Iran, in 2013, and her B.S. in Physics from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, in 2010. For her Ph.D. in the Biosensing and Biorobotics Laboratory, she is developing a novel method for minimally invasive deep brain neuromodulation as well as a multi-modal whole cortex sensing technology, which combines See-Shells with transparent ink-jet printed ECoG electrodes.
Publications
Navabi ZS, Ryan Peters, Beatrice Gulner, Arun Cherkkil, Eunsong Ko, Farnoosh Dadashi, Jacob O Brien, Michael Feldkamp, Suhasa B Kodandaramaiah. Computer vision guided rapid and precise automated cranial microsurgeries in rodents.bioRxiv. 2024
Navabi, Z.S.*, Donaldson, P.D.*, Carter, R.E., Fausner, S.M.L., Ghanbari, L., Ebner, T.J. and Swisher, S.L., 2021. Polymer skulls with integrated transparent electrode arrays for cortex-wide opto-electrophysiological recordings.
Hu, J., Hossain, R.F., Navabi, Z.S., Tillery, A., Laroque, M., Donaldson, P.D., Swisher, S.L. and Kodandaramaiah, S.B., 2023. Fully desktop fabricated flexible graphene electrocorticography (ECoG) arrays. Journal of neural engineering, 20(1), p.016019.
Mathew L Rynes, Daniel Surinach2, Samantha Linn , Michael Laroque , Vijay Rajendran , Judith Dominguez, Orestes Hadjistamolou, Zahra S Navabi, Leila Ghanbari, Gregory W Johnson , Mojtaba Nazari , Majid Mohajerani, Suhasa B Kodandaramaiah, . "Miniaturized head-mounted microscope for whole-cortex mesoscale imaging in freely behaving mice." Nature Methods 18.4 (2021): 417-425.
Rynes ML, Ghanbari L, Schulman DS, Linn S, Laroque M, Dominguez J, Navabi ZS, Sherman P, Kodandaramaiah SB. Assembly and operation of an open-source, computer numerical controlled (CNC) robot for performing cranial microsurgical procedures. Nature Protocols. 2020 May 13:1-32.
Peer-reviewed conference papers
Ridwan Fayaz Hossain, Jia Hu, Zahra S. Navabi, Alana Tillery, Suhasa B. Kodandaramaiah “High-performance, Conformable, Stencil Fabricated Graphene μ-ECoG Array” BIOCAS 2021
Zahra S. Navabi *, Jia Hu*, Jacob O’Brien*, Amey S. Joshi*, Andrew D. Alegria*, Suhasa B. Kodandaramaiah, "Automated Device for Public Elevator Control Panel UVC Sanitization." Frontiers in Biomedical Devices. Vol. 84812. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021.
* These authors contributed equally to the paper
Navabi, Z. S., & Zhou, D. A Novel Soft Actuator for Continuum Soft Robot Arm. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics (pp. 138-143). ACM.
HOnors and awards
2017 University of Minnesota, Duluth, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Summer Fellowship
2016-2017 University of Minnesota, Duluth, Best Graduate Teacher Assistant in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
2015 2nd Placement in Iran’s national PhD entrance exam for Machine Intelligence and Robotics