Mahla Poudineh

Dr. Mahla Poudineh is an Assistant Professor and Director of the IDEATION Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, with a minor in Biomedical Engineering, from the University of Toronto in 2016.

Prior to joining UWaterloo, Dr. Poudineh completed postdoctoral training at the University of Toronto’s Department of Pharmaceutical Science in 2017 and at Stanford University’s School of Medicine in 2019. She also holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Tehran, Iran (2010, 2012).

Her research focuses on developing bio-sensing technologies for therapeutic and diagnostic applications, with an emphasis on translating biomedical devices into clinical practice.

• Real-time bio-sensing approaches for detection of small molecules
• Microfluidic-based integrated devices for therapeutics and diagnostics purposes
• Implantable micro-devices for cancer treatment
• Circulating tumor cell phenotypic characterization
• Stem cell profiling and characterization
• Translating biomedical devices for clinical use
• Silicon micro-machining for developing bio-MEMS and bio-NEMS devices

• 2016, Doctorate Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
• 2012, Master of Science Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran
• 2010, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran

• ECE 730 - Special Topics in Solid State Devices
  • Taught in 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025
• NE 381 - Introduction to Nanoscale Biosystems
  • Taught in 2021, 2022
• NE 479 - Special Topics in Nanoelectronics
  • Taught in 2020
• NE 487 - Microfluidic and Nanobiotechnological Systems
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025

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• M. Poudineh*, C. L. Maikawa*, E. Yue Ma, J. Pan, D. Mamerow, Y. Hang, S. W. Baker, A. Beirami, M. Eisenstein, S. Kim, J. Vučković1, E. A. Appel, and H. T. Soh, Continuous detection of glucose and insulin in live animals, submitted, , 2020
• M. Labib, R. M. Mohamadi, M. Poudineh, S. Ahmed, I. Ivanov, C. Huang, M. Moosavi, E. H. Sargent, and S. O. Kelley, Single Cell mRNA Cytometry via Sequence-Specific Nanoparticle Clustering and Trapping, Nature Chemistry, 489, 2018
• M. Poudineh*, Z. Wang*, M. Labib, M. Ahmadi, L. Zhang, J. Das, S. Ahmed, S. Angers, and S. O. Kelley, Three Dimensional Nanostructured Architectures Enable Efficient Neural Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells via Mechanotransduction, Nano Letters, 7188, 2018
• M. Poudineh, E. H. Sargent, S. O. Kelley, and K. Pantel, Profiling Circulating Tumour Cells and Other Biomarkers of Invasive Cancers, Nature Biomedical Engineering, invited review, 82, 2018
• M. Poudineh, P. M. Aldridge, S. Ahmed, B. J. Green, L. Kermanshah, V. Nguyen, C. Tu, R. M. Mohamadi, R. K. Nam, A. Hansen, S. S. Sridhar, A. Finelli, N. E. Fleshner, A. M. Joshua, E. H. Sargent, and S. O. Kelley, Tracking the Dynamics of Circulating Tumor Cell Phenotypes Using Nanoparticle-mediated Magnetic Ranking, Nature Nanotechnology, 274, 2017
• M. Poudineh, M. Labib, S. Ahmed, L. N. Matthew Nguyen, L. Kermanshah, R. M. Mohamadi, E. H. Sargent, and S. O. Kelley, Profiling Functional and Biochemical Phenotypes of Circulating Tumor Cells Using a Two-Dimensional Sorting Device, Angewantde Chemie, 163, 2017

• Researchers develop pain-free, wearable tech for health checks
• Professor wins Early Researcher Award
• Prof's award-winning diabetes monitoring patch coming soon
• Prof awarded prestigious award for women in STEM
• Researchers awarded $4 million in federal funding
• Painless patch for diabetes monitoring now being developed