- Adjunct Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
 
- Phone: 781-981-7208
 - Email: rjafari@tamu.edu
 - Website: Research Webpage
 
				Educational Background
- Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles – 2006
 
Research Interests
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- Biomedical optics
 - Biosensors
 - Medical devices
 - Digital health
 - Clinical informatics
 
 
Certifications & Memberships
- Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
 - Chair, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Wearable Biomedical Sensors and Systems Technical Committee
 - Chair, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Applied Signal Processing Technical Committee
 - Chair, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Informatics and Digital Health (CIDH) study section – 2020-2022
 - Standing member, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics (BCHI) study section – 2017-2021
 
Awards & Honors
- Presidential Fellow, Texas A&M University – 2019
 - Outstanding Engineering Contribution Award, College of Engineering, Texas A&M University – 2019
 - Best Paper Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems – 2019
 - Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award from Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society – 2014
 - National Science Foundation CAREER Award – 2012
 - Best Paper Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Real-Time & Embedded Technology & Applications Symposium (RTAS-CPS Week) – 2011