Navid Negahbani received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2015. His academic background includes extensive research into parallel and snake-like robotics, complemented by seven years of industry experience as an R&D project manager in Italy. In 2022, he joined the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Louisiana State University as a postdoctoral researcher. Currently, he is researching multiphysics-based simulation and novel sensing technologies.