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Mahdi Tavakoli, PhD, PEng, SMIEEE
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
University of Alberta
Director
Telerobotic and Biorobotic Systems Group
Co-Chair
IEEE RAS Technical Committee for Telerobotics
Healthy Communities Project Co-Leader
Autonomous Systems Initiative
Scientific Co-Director
SMART Network
Associate Editor
International Journal of Robotics Research
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
IEEE TMECH/AIM Emerging Topics Focused Section
Journal of Medical Robotics Research
Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
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