
Shahrzad (Sherry) Towfighian
Associate Professor
stowfigh@binghamton.edu
Dr. Towfighian received her PhD degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2011. She joined the Mechanical Engineering department at 海角乱伦社区 in Fall 2013. She has published over 75 journal and international conference papers. She has been the recipient of several grants from National Science Foundation and National Health Institute. Her research interests are Micro-electro-mechanical systems and energy harvesting for biomedical devices. She focuses on creating theoretical and experimental frameworks to explain the underlying mechanism of electromechanical systems. Using these frameworks, she seeks innovative methods to improve functionality of devices for various applications.
Current Members
Mahmood Chahari
PhD Candidate
mchahar1@binghamton.edu
MAHMOOD CHAHARI received the M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Sharif
University of Technology. His current research interests include Robotics and Control,
MEMS sensors, and energy harvesting.
Osama Abdalla
PhD Candidate
Osama Abdalla has earned his BSc from the University of Jordan, Jordan. His research interests include energy harvesters, biomechanics, and additive manufacturing.
Elham Mahmoodi
PhD Candidate
emahmoudi@binghamton.edu
Elham Mahmoudi earned her master's degree from Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran. Her research interests include control and robotics, vibration, MEMS sensors, and energy harvesting.
Ali Eskandari
PhD Candidate
aeskandari@binghamton.edu
Ali Eskandari received his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology. His research interests include MEMS sensors and actuators, with a particular focus on their dynamic behavior.

Mohammad Alzgool
PhD candidate
malzgoo1@binghamton.edu
Mohammad earned my bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering and his Master's degree
in Mechancial Engienering from Jordan University of Science and Technology.
He is interested in MEMS sensors and actuators, Control, and Biomechanics.
Employers
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Alumni
- Yu Tian, MS, now PhD student at Purdue University.
- Sara Aghazadeh, MS, now Phd student at 海角乱伦社区 working with Dr. Ronald Miles on MEMS microphones.
- Mohammad Mousavi, PhD, now research scientist at that makes MEMS microphones.
- Nabid Hossain, PhD, now research and development mechanical engineer at .
- Meysam Daeichin, PhD, now research scientist at that makes miniature MEMS microphones.
- Mehmet Ozdogan, PhD, now prcoess developement engineer at that makes highly advanced microsystems.
- Mark Pallay, PhD, now a research and development engineer at that makes hardware storage devices.
- Alwathiqbellah Ibrahim, PhD and Postdoc, now an assistant professor at the
- Daniel Nelson, MS, now a research engineer at .
- Wei Yang, PhD, Hired by working on dynamic analysis of cell phone components.
- Matthew Jones, MS, Currently at Ford.
- Lejie Liu , MS
Currently PhD student at University of Madison-Wisconsin. - Timothy Kilmer - Undergraduate student
Currently junior student at SUNY Oneonta.