Rahim Esfandyarpour is a highly skilled researcher and engineer in the field of biosensors and point-of-care devices. He has dedicated his career to improving healthcare technology, particularly for those in resource-limited settings. After earning his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, he has held various prestigious positions, including a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School and an Assistant Professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has authored many academic papers and has been awarded several patents. He is also a co-founder of the startup, GenapSys, where he developed a portable DNA sequencing device. Dr. Esfandyarpour is currently a Senior Research Scientist at the California Institute of Technology, where he is working on engineering highly sensitive biosensors for disease diagnosis.