Sara Abdollahi (E 2018)
(she/her)
About
Sara Abdollahi graduated with her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University in 2018. Her thesis, “Soft Material 3D Printing Toward Patient-Specific Wearable Medical Devices,” studied the use of additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing) using soft and liquid materials. Specifically, she used 3D printing to develop the cuff for a wearable pulse oximeter with pressure sensing for continuous health monitoring. In doing so, she established a unique optimization strategy for 3D printing called the Expert-Guided Optimization (EGO) method to search the parameter space and find the optimum combination setting. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. While there, her research has spanned several projects, including a focus on cardiac tissue engineering and neurodegenerative disorders.
Selected Publications & Conferences during PhD
Abdollahi, S., Markvicka, E.J., Majidi, C., & Feinberg, A.W. (2020). 3D printing silicone elastomer for patient‐specific wearable pulse oximeter. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 9(15), 1901735. https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.201901735
Abdollahi, S., Davis, A., Miller, J.H., & Feinberg, A.W. (2018). Expert-guided optimization for 3D printing of soft and liquid materials. PLOS ONE, 13(4). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194890
Abdollahi, S., Markvicka, E.J., Majidi, C., & Feinberg, A.W. (2018, April 11–14). Patient-Specific 3D Printed Elastomeric Wearable Medical Devices. In Society for Biomaterials (SFB) 2018 Annual Meeting & Exhibition. Atlanta, GA.