Mahdieh is a doctoral student in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Northwestern University. She received her B.E. (Hons) in Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and her M.S. in Robotics from Northwestern University. She has worked at several robotics labs and startups in New Zealand and the US. She has experience working with smart material, wearable devices, and surgical platforms. She co-invented fabric sensors while at StretchSense Inc., helping expand the product line to wearable applications. Her current research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and control strategies with applications in assistive devices, rehabilitation and medical robotics. She is particularly interested in developing novel algorithms for shared-control in assistive robotics.