Talk: Dr. Rahim Esfandyar-Pour "Smart and Integrated Nanomaterials-Based Electronic Skins: Augmenting Interactive Wearables and Implantable Nanoelectronics for Health & Human-Machine Interactions"
Abstract: Despite remarkable progress in semiconductor technologies, engineering, materials science, manufacturing, medicine, and artificial intelligence, substantial interdisciplinary gaps remain. These gaps constrain the evolution of smart nano-micro electronics, limiting advancements in human-machine interactions, patient monitoring/diagnostics/therapeutics, and remote sensing. Bridging these gaps is
essential to fully realize precision medicine and enable seamless integration into a digitally connected world.
Our interdisciplinary research aims to address these challenges through fundamental studies and investigating the key properties of semiconductor and multifunctional nanomaterials, alongside the development of innovative, next-generation, and smart wearable and implantable nano-micro electronic devices. By harnessing the unique electronic, optical, and mechanical properties of semiconductor materials and multifunctional nanomaterials, we develop state-of-the-art, cost-effective, scalable, wireless, and self-powered next generation nano-micro electronic devices. These devices are engineered to precisely monitor physiological and molecular profiles, acquiring dynamic and specific information from both human and robotic systems in real time. In our research we also develop and integrating state-of-the-art fabrication techniques, including 3D-4D multi-nanomaterial printing and clean-room-based manufacturing, alongside intelligent computing paradigms, such as neuromorphic computing, and energy-efficient electronic system designs. We aim to achieve high-performance, power-efficient, wireless, and real-time data collection and in-sensory processing. Doing so can enable immediate, on-chip decision-making and interactive feedback. Such capabilities will significantly advance personalized healthcare, early anomaly detection, remote sensing, and smart human-machine/robots’ interactions.
This presentation highlights our key achievements and illustrates the transformative potential of our innovative, smart, and next-generation semiconductor and nanomaterial-based nano-micro electronic devices. By enabling robust, scalable, accurate, wireless, and intelligent acquisition and smart analysis, our research paves the way toward the next generation of precision medicine, remote sensing, and
interactive human-machine collaborations.
Short Speaker Bio: Dr. Esfandyar-Pour earned both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, followed by a postdoctoral scholarship and a subsequent role as an engineering research scientist at Stanford Medical School. He now serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine, holding appointments in the Departments of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, Materials & Manufacturing, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering.
His interdisciplinary research group focuses on Smart NanoBioElectronics and has produced 71 high-impact, peer-reviewed publications in prestigious outlets, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nano Energy, and Nano Research. Dr. Esfandyar-Pour has received numerous honors, such as the “DARPA
Young Faculty Award”, the “Early Career Investigator Award” from the International Society for Biofabrication, the “ITSA Award”, “Best Paper Award” at SPIE Photonics West 2025, and “Best Poster Award” at Flexible Microelectronics in Bioelectronics 2025, among others. He was also recognized as one of the “25 Irvine Innovators Making an Impact” in 2023. His research has also attracted international attention and been featured by media outlets such Nature News, New Scientist, Popular Science, NPR Radio, BBC news, among many others.