Parsa Molaei

Instructor, Mechanical Engineering: Post Doctoral Fellow - Education

PhD, Louisiana State University (2025)

Expertise

Robotics • flexible and soft robots• instrumentation.

Biographical Sketch

Parsa Molaei is an Instructor and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his MS degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2023 and his PhD in 2025 from Louisiana State University. His research revolves around soft robotics and continuum mechanics, a subfield of robotics that concerns the design, fabrication, and control of robots composed of compliant materials, focusing on the stability and stiffness analysis of tendon-driven manipulators and concentric tube robots used for general manipulation in unstructured and delicate environments.