As a member of NMSU’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Associate Professor Mahdi Haghshenas-Jaryani explores the world of robotics.
“As humanity’s future increasingly intertwines with robots and intelligent machines, my research aims to enable robots, in close collaboration with humans, to tackle humanity’s most pressing challenges,” he said. “Specifically, I focus on advancing applications in health care, agriculture and the exploration of new worlds.”
In his Bioinspired and Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory, Haghshenas-Jaryani leads a research team focused on dynamic modeling, control, design and development of unconventional shape-morphing soft robotic systems with applications in locomotion, manipulation and physical human-robot interaction such as wearable robotics and exoskeletons.
“My favorite aspect of working at NMSU is the incredible opportunity to collaborate on multidisciplinary robotics and AI research,” he said. “This environment allows us to bring diverse expertise together to achieve innovative results.”
In 2019, Haghshenas-Jaryani joined the NMSU faculty as an assistant professor after spending five years at the University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute. This year, he was promoted to associate professor.
Haghshenas-Jaryani earned all three of his degrees in mechanical engineering, with his Ph.D. from the UT Arlington in 2014, master’s degree from Sharif University of Technology in 2009 and bachelor’s degree from the University of Tehran in 2005.