Abdul Barakat

Abdul Barakat is also adjunct professor of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. A graduate of Biofluid Mechanics from MIT, Abdul Barakat co-founded the startup Sensome, which develops advanced sensor technologies for medical devices. His research interests include vascular biomechanics and bioengineering, cellular mechanobiology and endovascular devices. He has published more than 250 journal and conference papers and is the recipient of the Pfizer-Parke Davis Atorvastatin Research Award (2001), an AXA Research Fund Permanent Chair (2010), and the Eugenio Beltrami Senior Scientist Prize from the International Research Center for Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems (2020). He is also an elected member of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.