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Mahdi Tavakoli, PhD, PEng, SMIEEE

Professor
Telerobotic and Biorobotic Systems Group
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
University of Alberta

Associate Editor
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
Journal of Medical Robotics Research
Control Engineering Practice
Mechatronics

Research Interests

• Robotics and Telerobotics
• Haptics and Teleoperation Control
• Surgical and Therapeutic Robotics
• Image-Guided Surgery

Current Research Projects

• Design and control of robotic systems for image-guided surgeries (e.g., on the beating heart)
• Design and control of robotic systems for needle steering in prostate and breast brachytherapies
• Design and control of robotic and haptic telerobotic systems for in-home telerehabilitation of stroke patients
• Design and control of robotic wearable systems for injury prevention
• Design and control of bilateral and multilateral teleoperation systems under delays, uncertainties, nonlinearities, sampling, and switching
• Studying the human task performance during haptic teleoperation and tele-cooperation
• Developing machine intelligence based solutions for medicine