Helia Hosseini is the youngest research scientist at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Samueli School of Engineering.
She was born in 2002. A child prodigy, Helia received her high-school diploma in Iran at the age of 15. In 2018, she was invited to join a research team including medical school and engineering to research the effect of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) on future manifestation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy(CTE).