Canan Dagdeviren, Associate Professor and director of the Conformable Decoders group at the MIT Media Lab, has been inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows as part of the 2026 class.

Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to medical and biological engineers, honoring the top two percent of engineers in the field. Dagdeviren was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows "for pioneering development of wearable ultrasound technologies, enabling non-invasive health assessment and advancing our understanding of various disorders."

Dagdeviren's research focuses on creating mechanically adaptive electromechanical systems that can intimately integrate with the human body for sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting. Her work spans flexible mechanical energy harvesters, wearable blood pressure sensors, multi-functional cardiac vessel stents, and minimally invasive brain devices for the treatment of neurological disorders.

A formal induction ceremony was held during the AIMBE Annual Event in Arlington, Virginia on April 13, 2026. Dagdeviren was inducted along with 175 colleagues. AIMBE Fellows include four Nobel Prize laureates and 27 Presidential Medal of Science and/or Technology and Innovation awardees.