Iraj Hassanzadeh
Iraj Hassanzadeh received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Control/Robotics) from University of Tabriz, Iran in conjunction with the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, and M.Sc. from the University of Tabriz, in 2002 and 1994, respectively. He received his B.Sc. degree from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 1991. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Mechatronics and Robotics at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, for about two years during 2004-2005. Since 2002, he has been with the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tabriz, Iran. During 2008-2010, he was the head of Control Engineering Department at the University of Tabriz. Also, he is the director of the Robotics Research Lab. As a team leader, he led two robotic teams to win four trophies in two international and national robotic competitions (RDC2002 and ROBOFIRE 2006). His research interests include robotics, visual servoing, tele-robotics, tele-surgery, control theory, nonlinear modeling, and power system control. He has published more than 60 journal papers, and peer-reviewed international conference papers in the fields. He is a member of IEEE and serves as a member of program committee of several international conferences (SPIE2005, IEEECCA2005 and IEEE Thailand2006) and several national conferences as well. Now, he is on sabbatical leave at the University of Alberta.