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About

Fatemeh Afghah is an Associate Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Clemson University, where she is the director of Intelligent Systems and Wireless Networking (IS-WiN) Laboratory. Prior to joining Clemson University, she was an Associate Professor with the School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University. Her research interests include wireless communication networks, decision making in autonomous systems and artificial intelligence in healthcare. She is the recipient of several awards including the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award in 2019, NSF CAREER Award in 2020, NAU's Most Promising New Scholar Award in 2020, and NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award in 2017. She is the co-inventor of six US patents and an author/co-author of over 160 peer-reviewed publications. She serves as the associate editor for several journals including ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Ad hoc networks, and Computer Networks. She has served as the TPC chair for several international IEEE workshops and conferences and was the organizer of 2025 NSF CPS PI Meeting, 2021 NSF Smart Health workshop on “Smart Health in the AI and COVID Era” and IEEE EMBC 2024. She collaborates with several health institutes including the Medical School of South Carolina, and Prisma Health.chool of South Carolina, and Prisma Health.

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How their research is transforming health care

Dr. Afghah’s research interests lie in the areas of AI-assisted healthcare and remote patient monitoring. Her recent projects focus large language models, vision large language models, and AI-based predictive modeling.

Health Research Expertise Keywords

Faculty Scholar, Artificial intelligence, biomedical signal processing, rural health, wireless communications and networking, deep learning, remote health monitoring, wearable heart monitoring