Youseph Yazdi Faculty Bio
Youseph Yazdi, PhD, MBA
Executive Director
Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering
Program Director
Wallace H. Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
3400 N. Charles Street
Clark Hall 208B
Phone: (410) 516-2018
yyazdi@jhu.edu
Youseph Yazdi, PhD, MBA, joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2009 and the Carey Business School in 2011. He is the Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design, a center focused on training leaders in medtech innovation and commercialization. He is also Director of the Coulter Translational Research Partnership, established in 2011, which supports translational medical innovations emerging from collaborations between BME faculty and School of Medicine clinicians.
Dr. Yazdi is a graduate of Rice University with a degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering and holds MS and PhD degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He also earned an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Prior to his arrival at Hopkins, Dr. Yazdi was a Corporate Director in Johnson & Johnson's Corporate Office of Science and Technology where he was responsible for the creation and management of external and internal partnerships that funded and guided early-stage health care innovation. In this role, he made significant contributions to corporate-wide teams that defined the company’s entry into major new businesses. Dr. Yazdi has 17 years of medical industry experience, is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and serves on advisory boards of several academic organizations. Dr Yazdi is an inventor on several patents contributing to commercialized medical devices in the fields of ultrasound and biophotonics.
Honors and Distinctions
- 2009 - Fellow, American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering
- 2007 - Recipient, Johnson & Johnson Standards of Leadership Award
Boards & Advisory Groups (present and former)
- Maryland Technology Development Company (TEDCO) Investment Advisory Board
- Virginia Center for Innovative Technology Investment Advisory Board
- Coulter Foundation Early Career Award Selection Committee
- University of Virginia Coulter Oversight Committee
- Drexel University Coulter Oversight Committee
- Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Science External Advisory Committee
