Program Manager
Biological Technologies Office
Roozbeh Jafari, PhD, joined DARPA in July 2025 as a program manager in the Biological Technologies Office. His research interests include digital health technologies, wearable computing, biomedical signal processing, and AI-driven physiological sensing systems.
Before joining DARPA, Jafari was principal staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and research affiliate at MIT's Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems and Microsystems Technology Laboratories. He joined MIT from Texas A&M where he was the Tim and Amy Leach Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the School of Engineering Medicine. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. His laboratory developed groundbreaking technologies including smart rings, smart watches and e-tattoos for continuous cardiovascular monitoring, cuffless blood pressure sensing systems, and precision medicine digital twins.
He has secured over $89M in external funding as principal investigator or co-investigator from agencies including National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Department of Defense. Jafari has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles and holds multiple patents in wearable health technologies.
He has mentored more than 25 graduate students and received multiple honors, including the NSF CAREER Award, Federal Communications Commission Chairman's Award for Advancement in Accessibility and several best paper awards. He served as inaugural chair of the NIH Clinical Informatics and Digital Health study section and holds editorial positions at premier journals including npj Digital Medicine and IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. He is a fellow of the IEEE and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Education
- PhD, Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles
- MS, Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles
- MS, Electrical Engineering, State University of New York, Buffalo
- BS, Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology