Mohamad Abedi is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at UCLA. He received his undergraduate training in Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine. He then completed his graduate degree in Bioengineering at Caltech with Mikhail Shapiro, where he focused on synthetic biology. During his PhD, he developed technologies to image and control cell signaling using ultrasound. Following his PhD, Mohamad did his postdoctoral training in computational protein design at the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington in Seattle with David Baker. His work focused on engineering new biological communication systems beyond those found in nature. The goal was to better understand how cellular signaling works and to use that knowledge to build new cell- and protein-based therapies.

His research sits at the intersection of protein engineering and machine learning, driven by curiosity about how living systems process information and how we can reprogram that logic. Outside the lab, he enjoys bike rides, hiking, cooking (and eating), and exploring new cities and cultures.