Professor Mona Eskandari is founder of the bioMechanics Experimental and Computational Health (bMECH) laboratory, a world-renowned pulmonary mechanics research group, focusing on structural lung function at the organ-, tissue-, and micro-scale. She is best recognized for pioneering experimental technologies, such as innovative breathing mimicry platforms interfacing with adapted digital image correlation methods to enable unprecedented quantification capabilities for examining rapid and finite breathing mechanics, and for developing predictive computational tools to inaugurate novel diagnostic techniques for medical intervention. As faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Medicine's multidisciplinary BREATHE Center at the University of California Riverside, her lab is funded by federal institutions and industry.
She also holds the title of Distinguished Teaching Professor, and has received several prestigious national and international research awards and fellowships, including the K.P. Cross Future Leader of Higher Education Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She conducted her postdoctoral fellowship at UC-Berkeley, and received her PhD and master's degrees from Stanford University, and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona as a Nugent Medalist.