Dr. Mona Eskandari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (Cooperating Faculty title in the Department of Bioengineering, collaborating with the School of Medicine's multidisciplinary BREATHEcenter) at UC-Riverside. She is a recipient of the prestigious Hellman Foundation Faculty Fellowship. She also holds the honored title of Distinguished Teaching Professor.

She received her doctorate and master's degree from Stanford University, and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona, where she was also a Nugent medalist. She was granted the University of California Provost's Engineering Faculty Research Fellowship to conduct her postdoctoral research at UC-Berkeley, and was previously named a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, a DARE Doctoral Fellow, and a Stanford Graduate Science and Engineering Fellow.

Her area of expertise is computational modeling and experimental characterization of biological systems, with an emphasis on pulmonary mechanics. Professor Eskandari received the Early Engineering Educator Award from the American Society for Engineering Education, and the renowned K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders of Higher Education Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities.