Samira is a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iowa. She got her B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering by the major of Industrial Safety at Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran, Iran, and graduated in Fall 2019 from Kharazmi University of Tehran, Iran with an M.S.c in Mechanical Engineering. Her research has been focused on hand gesture recognition and classification using electromyography and acceleration sensors.  ​