Dr. Canan Dagdeviren

Biography

Canan Dagdeviren joined the faculty in January 2017 as an Associate Professor and the LG Career Development Professor in Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab. She leads the Conformable Decoders research group, focusing on developing mechanically adaptive electromechanical systems that integrate sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting with applications in biomedical devices. Her research aims to create systems that decode the beneficial signals and energies coded in the physical patterns of human bodies. She has developed a wide range of piezoelectric systems designed to be adaptable to curvilinear surfaces of the body without significant performance loss. She received her Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she researched flexible mechanical energy harvesters and wearable biomedical systems. As a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, she performed postdoctoral research at the MIT David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, focusing on minimally invasive brain electrodes. Her work has been featured in notable media outlets, and she has received several prestigious awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER award and recognition as one of the nation’s brightest young engineers by the National Academy of Engineering.

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