Current Members

Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi, PhD, PEng

Biography: Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from METU, Turkey, the M.A.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow and an Instructor with the Center for Intelligent Machines and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University. In 1997, he joined the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada, where he is currently a Professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and the Director of the Robotics, Mechatronics, and Automation Laboratory (RMAL). He has been a Visiting Professor with KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea; IRISA-INRIA, Rennes, France; and TUM, Munich, Germany. He is a fellow of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He has also been an organizer and a co-organizer of several international conferences on optomechatronic systems control. He also has served as a Technical Editor for IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics and an Associate Editor for several journals, including the International Journal of Optomechatronics and Journal of Robotics. 

Research Interests: Robotics and Automation, Medical Robotics, Continuum Robots, Visual Servoing, Optomechatronics, Image-guided Navigation, Aerial Manipulation

Email: fsharifi [at] torontomu.ca | University Website (opens in new window)  | Google Scholar (external link, opens in new window) 

Houman Masnavi, PhD

PhD in Engineering and Technology, University of Tartu, Estonia
MSc in Robotics and Computer Engineering, University of Tartu, Estonia
BSc in Computer Engineering, University of Zabol, Iran

Research Interests: Robotics Motion Planning, Optimization, Machine Learning, Control, ROS, System Integration

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Shahab Ghorbani, MSc

PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
MSc in Aerospace Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
BSc in Aerospace Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran

Research Interests: Modeling and Control of Robots, Aerial Robotic Systems

Ali A. Nazari, MSc

(Supervisor: Kourosh Zareinia, Co-supervisor: Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi)

PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
MSc in Mechatronics Engineering, Qazvin Azad University, Iran
BSc in Electrical Engineering, Qazvin Azad University, Iran

Research Interests: Medical Robotics, Continuum Robotics, Haptics, Visual Servoing, Computer Vision, Mechatronics

Email: ali.nazari [at] torontomu.ca | Google Scholar (external link, opens in new window)  | LinkedIn (external link, opens in new window) 

Rana Danesh, MSc

PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
MSc in Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
BSc in Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran

Research Interests: Robotics and Automation, Continuum Robots, Computer Vision

Shayan Sepahvand, MSc

PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
MSc in Electrical Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
BSc in Electrical Engineering, Petroleum University of Technology, Iran

Research Interests: Automation, Nonlinear Control, Continuum Robotics, Visual Servoing, Computer Vision

Niloufar Amiri, MSc

PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering
MSc in Mechanical Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
BSc in Mechanical Engineering, Razi University, Iran

Research Interests: Soft Robotics, Nonlinear Control, Dynamic Modeling, Optimization, Computer-Aided Design

Jeremy Catania, BEng

MEng Student, Mechanical Engineering
BEng in Mechanical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Research Interests: Mechatronics, Medical Robotics, Haptics

Soroush Sadeghian

BEng Student, Computer Science

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