Haleh Alimohamadi

Haleh Alimohamadi

Assistant Professor
University of California, Irvine
Email: [email protected]
Office: 2624 of Bio Sci III

BioIntelligence Lab

I am looking for highly motivated and hard-working undergraduate, master's, PhD students and Postdocs interested in working at the intersection of Biology, Physics, and ML. Please contact me if you are interested in working with me.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Molecular Biology & Biochemistry at UC Irvine and also the director of the BioIntelligence Lab.
Research Interests: My lab research broadly focuses on integrating multi-scale theoretical, experimental, and physics-guided AI frameworks to study biological systems, from low-level molecular machineries to high-level cellular functionalities. We are also interested in designing biologically inspired cognitive AI models that enhance interpretability and enable reasoning over complex biological data. Our goal is to identify the interconnections and integrated mechanisms between the molecular environment and cellular functions with the hope of developing novel strategies for precise and personalized medicine.

Bio: Dr. Alimohamadi has interdisciplinary training in engineering, biological sciences, and data science. She received her PhD from UC San Diego in 2021 and then she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Los Angeles, Department of Bioengineering. Dr. Alimohamadi has been widely recognized for her scientific contributions. She is a recipient of several prestigious awards, including the American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Fellowship, the STAT Wunderkind Award [STAT][UCLAnews], the William and Diane Spicer Young Investigator Award [SSRLnews], the University of California President’s Nobel Lindau Fellow [UCLAnews], the CIBA/YCC Young Chemists Scientist Award, the Rising Stars Women in Engineering, the NSF BioPACIFIC MIP Fellow [BioPacific], and the Outstanding Graduate Students Award. She has also received multiple fellowships, including the American Association of University Women Post-doctoral Fellowship, the Distinguished PhD Student Fellowship, the Siebel Scholarship [UCSDnews], the Visible Molecular Cell Consortium Fellowship, and the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Post-doctoral Fellowship.

News

Jan. 2026 Our paper on Dysregulation of Immune Cell Populations with Viral Infections has been published in PNAS [PNAS].
Nov. 2025 Our paper on Cell Apoptosis has been published in Cell [Cell].
April. 2025 Our companion papers on Dynamin have been published in JACS [UCLAnews].
April. 2025 American Association of University Women Post-doctoral Fellowship ($55k), UCLA
March. 2025 CIBA/YCC Young Chemist Scientist Award, American Chemical Society.
Feb. 2025 Co-chairing Membrane Fusion & Non-Bilayer Structures session, Biophysical Society, Los Angeles.
Feb. 2025 Women, Education & Early Careers Award, Biophysical Society.
Oct. 2025 STAT Wundekind Award, recognized as an emerging leader for outstanding contributions to health, medical, and life sciences.
Aug. 2024 Poster presentation in Soft Matter Symposium, UC Irvine.
Aug. 2024 William & Diane Spicer Young Investigator Award, SSRL.
July. 2024 Invited talk in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Vancouver, UBC.
2024-2025 NSF BioPacific MIP Fellow.
2024-2025 NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Post-doctoral Fellowship ($120k), UCLA.
2020 Siebel Scholar for academic excellence and leadership ($35k), UCSD.
2020 Distinguished PhD Student Fellowship, UCSD.
2019 Rising Stars Women in Engineering, Stanford University.
2017 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, UCSD.
2016-2018 Visible Molecular Cell Consortium Fellowship, UCSD.

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Postdoctoral Researcher

2021 - Present

Doctor of Philosophy

2018 -2021

Master of Science

2016 -2018

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