I'm Zahra Navabi, a mechanical engineer and researcher specializing in medical and neural technologies. My work involves developing tools like robotic surgical systems and neural recording devices to integrate engineering solutions into healthcare.
Journal articles
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. Science Advances
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.
* These authors contributed equally to the paper
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.
Z. Navabi, A.Ghanbari, 2nd national conference of applied researches in electrical, mechanical and mechatronic engineering, 2014(in Persian)