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Amir Hooshiar

I focus on recreating tactile sensing for surgeons during robot-assisted cardiovascular interventional surgery.

Amir Hooshiar received his Bachelor's and Master's in Biomedical Engineering with Honours from Amirkabir University of Tehran, Iran. He served as a Certified Medical Devices Expert for nine years before joining Concordia. Amir is a Vanier Scholar and the recipient of the prestigious NSERC Gilles-Brassard Doctoral Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in 2018. His doctoral research is under supervision of Dr. J. Dargahi on recreating tactile sensing and haptic feedback for surgeons during robot-assisted cardiovascular interventional surgery.

Discipline

Mechanical Engineering

Languages

English, Farsi

Supervisor

Javad Dargahi

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