Javad Paknahad

Javad is a PhD student at the Viterbi School of Engineering (Electrical Engineering) at the University of Southern California. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, in 2013. He was a Researcher with the Power Quality Laboratory, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, until 2016. He was also a Graduate Research Assistant with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, from 2016 until the end of 2017.

His main research focus was on biomedical electromagnetics, with particular interest to the application of biomedical devices, and electromagnetic neurostimulations. He was part of a team working on the safety assessment of wireless biomedical devices. He developed a multi-scale computational model to be used for biomedical devices, such as retinal prosthesis to restore partial sight to the blind, and hippocampal prosthesis.

Javad now works at Boston Scientific Neuromodulation in Valencia, CA.