Sarah Ostadabbas
Sarah Ostadabbas joined Northeastern University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in September 2015 as an Assistant Professor from Georgia Tech, where she was a post-doctoral researcher following completion of her PhD at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2014. She has recently formed the Augmented Cognition (AC) Laboratory with the goal of enhancing human information-processing capabilities through the design of adaptive interfaces via physical, physiological, and cognitive state estimation. Ostadabbas has over 4 years of experience developing medical and assistive technologies successfully bridging engineering theory and clinical practice. With the support of an NSF SBIR grant in 2013, as the PI, she was involved in the commercialization of a decision-support software to prevent pressure ulcers in bed-bound patients by suggesting a resource-efficient posture changing schedule. While being based on a theoretical/analytical framework, at the same time, her solutions aim to address the required system integration challenges presented in the human-centric designs. Sarah is the co-author of more than 40 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles, and is an inventor on two US patent applications. She is a member of IEEE, IEEE Women in Engineering, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE EMBS, IEEE Young Professionals, and ACM SIGCHI. She has been recently featured as one of the female pioneers of Engineering on National Women in Engineering Day by RE-WORK.