Majid Roshanfar is a Ph.D. candidate at the Robotic Surgery Lab at Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. He was a fellow of the NSERC CREATE program for Innovation at the Cutting Edge (ICE) at McGill University (2018–2021) and received the FRQNT scholarship for interdisciplinary research (2021). He has Bachelor’s (2014) and Master’s (2016) degrees in mechanical engineering with honors from the University of Tehran and K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. His research has been on the design, modeling, integration, and control of hybrid-driven soft robots for robot-assisted interventional surgery.
Nima Tabatabaei received his Master of Science (MSc) degree in Materials Engineering at the Sharif University of Technology and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Nima Tabatabaei of Mechanical Engineering at The Lassonde School of Engineering. His Research Interests include (1) instrumentation of medical devices and sensors; (2) biomedical optics; (3) optical microscopy and tomography; (4) thermo-photonics, thermography, and photo-thermal radiometry; (5) ai-powered biomedical sensing and imaging.
Bobak Mosadegh received his B.S. and M.S. in biomedical engineering from the University of California, Irvine. He performed undergraduate and graduate-level research in Professor Noo Li Jeon’s lab, working on gradient-generating microfluidic devices. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor while working in the lab of Shuichi Takayama. His research involved developing microfluidic integrated circuits and various cell patterning methods using aqueous two-phase systems and microfluidic devices. Under the guidance of George M. Whitesides, he performed his postdoctoral training at Harvard University and the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering. His research focused on developing two technologies: (i) a 3D paper-based cell culture system for the study of the effects of ischemic gradients on cancer cells and cardiomyocytes and (ii) actuators and control systems for soft robotics. Dr. Mosadegh started as an Assistant Professor in the department of Radiology, at Weill Cornell Medicine, in Nov. of 2014, and is currently an Associate Professor. He also serves as the Director of the Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging and was the convener for the ISO working group on cardiac occluders. Currently his research focuses on the uses of soft robotics, mixed reality, and deep learning for development of next-generation medical devices for both diagnostics and therapeutics.
