Rayehe Karimi Mahabadi

Postdoctoral Associate

Rayehe Karimi Mahabadi is a postdoctoral associate in the Advanced Materials Laboratory within the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. Her current research is focused on designing acoustic metamaterials by AI. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Applied Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in 2022. She was also a researcher at Laboratory of Wave Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering at EPFL. Her Ph.D. research was on deformable electromagnetic metamaterials which resulted in proposing a multiscale multiphysics framework to analyze such surfaces. Her M.Sc. research was on the optimization of composite plates reinforced with shape memory alloy (SMA) fibers under free vibration.

Appointments and Affiliations

  • Postdoctoral Associate

Contact Information

  • Email Address: rayehe.karimimahabadi@duke.edu

Research Interests

  • Metamaterials

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Multiphysics analysis

  • Multiscale analysis

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Best Ph.D. Research. Mechanical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology. 2020

Representative Publications

  • Karimi Mahabadi, R., Z. Chen, A. C. Ogren, H. Zhang, C. Daraio, C. Rudin, and L. C. Brinson. “Graph-based design of irregular metamaterials (Accepted).” International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 295 (June 1, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2025.110203.
  • Karimi Mahabadi, R., T. Goudarzi, R. Fleury, B. Orazbayev, and R. Naghdabadi. “Effect of mechanical nonlinearity on the electromagnetic response of a microwave tunable metamaterial.” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 55, no. 20 (May 19, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ac5209.
  • Karimi Mahabadi, Rayehe, Taha Goudarzi, Romain Fleury, Saeed Sohrabpour, and Reza Naghdabadi. “Effects of resonator geometry and substrate stiffness on the tunability of a deformable microwave metasurface.” AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications 146 (March 2022): 154123–154123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeue.2022.154123.
  • Karimi Mahabadi, Rayehe, Taha Goudarzi, Romain Fleury, and Reza Naghdabadi. “Multifunctional Hyperelastic Structured Surface for Tunable and Switchable Transparency.” Applied Sciences 11, no. 5 (March 4, 2021): 2255–2255. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11052255.
  • Karimi Mahabadi, Rayehe, Mitra Danesh Pazhooh, and Mahmoud Shakeri. “On the free vibration and design optimization of a shape memory alloy hybrid laminated composite plate.” Acta Mechanica 232, no. 1 (January 2021): 323–43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-020-02824-2.