Postdoc/PhD Opportunities

We are looking for highly motivated Postdocs and PhD students in the area of stroke and cerebrovascular modeling.

Kaveh Laksari, PhD

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering (ME)

Dr. Laksari graduated from University of Tehran with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. He received his PhD from Temple University also in Mechanical Engineering, with a focus in injury biomechanics. He then went to Stanford University as a postdoctoral scholar.

Aditi Deshpande, PhD

Aditi received her PhD from University of Arizona in 2022 and continued her work at the Laksari Lab. She leads our efforts in vascular segmentation and stroke assessment.

Postdocs

PhD Students

Amirreza Asadi

Amir started his PhD studies at the Laksari Lab in 2023 after receiving his undergraduate degree from Sharif University. He leads our discovering hidden mechanical properties of materials from non-invasive methods and physics-informed machine learning.

Ramtin Hatami

Ramtin joined our lab in 2024 after completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Shiraz and his master's degree at UCR. He is working on cerebrohemodynamic simulations.

Amin Ebrahimzadeh

Amin joined our lab in 2024 after completing his undergraduate studies at Sharif University. He is working on experimental models of cerebrohemodynamic.

Nima Jamilpour, PhD

Mohammad "Sohrab" Sarabian, PhD

Danya Pradeep Kumar, PhD

Ali Kamali, PhD

Carissa Grijalva, PhD

Postdocs and PhD Graduates

Lab Alumna

Harrison Thurgood

Callie Frantz

Masters Graduates

Jordan Elliot

Patricio Arrue, PhD

Undergraduates

Austin Vedder
Tasmima Nooshrat Khan
McKenzie D. Jones
Sarah E. Laks
Daron K. Litzin
Jaclyn C. Nesemann
Matthew Ogden
Babak Safavinia
Matthew D. Slobodianuk
Savannah Brown
Jacob J. Sindorf
Cassidy Mannier
Cassie Kimble
Amy Cambridge
Clara Mersiowsky
Tai Combs
Nitya Kari