Portrait of Saeed Rafieyan

AI for biomaterials and tissue engineering

Saeed Rafieyan

I develop machine learning models, datasets, and computational tools to guide biomaterial and scaffold design. My research combines biological data, predictive modelling, and inverse design to help researchers decide what to fabricate and test.

PhD researcher, Digital Manufacturing of Biomimetic Systems group, IChF PAN, Warsaw

Research

I am a biomedical engineer and machine learning researcher at IChF PAN in Warsaw. My research connects biological data, predictive modelling, and computational design to support biomaterial development and tissue engineering.

I develop MLATE, an open-source framework for predicting scaffold printability and cell response and prioritising formulations for experimental testing. My PhD focuses on computational inverse design for biodegradable wound dressings. Alongside this, I investigate how extracellular-matrix information and structured biological knowledge can inform biomaterial and scaffold design.

Research themes

Predictive modelling for biofabrication

Using machine learning to predict scaffold printability and cell response and support experimental prioritisation.

Computational and inverse scaffold design

Connecting design requirements with candidate scaffold structures for tissue engineering and regenerative applications.

Biological data for biomaterial design

Exploring how tissue biology, extracellular-matrix information, and structured research knowledge can inform biomaterial development.

Other research collaborations

  • Chemical and bioprocess engineering. Machine learning and Bayesian optimisation for biorefinery processes, with collaborators at Jiangnan University, building on earlier work in process simulation and biofuel separation. 1 article + 1 review + 1 conference paper →
  • Reviews in biomaterials and biofabrication. Co-authored reviews on natural-polymer scaffolds for musculoskeletal tissue engineering and on bioprinted biohybrid actuators. 2 reviews →

Featured projects

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Selected publications

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From the blog

  1. · 10 min read

    Computational tissue engineering and why the field is still experimental

    Computers already help design scaffolds and bioreactors, yet tissue engineering still depends on making things and testing them. Why simulation has not replaced the experiment here, and what would have to change.

  2. · 5 min read

    The idea behind MLATE

    Why I started turning the scaffold literature into data for machine learning, how the question changed over three versions, and what a tool like this can and cannot do.

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Contact

I welcome research collaborations in machine learning for biofabrication, computational scaffold design, and biologically informed biomaterial development.

Raf.Biomed@gmail.com

IChF PAN, Warsaw