Sadra Zargarzadeh

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Medical Robotics Large Language Models Computer Vision Machine Learning

About

Sadra Zargarzadeh is an M.Sc. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta supervised by Prof. Mahdi Tavakoli in the Telerobotic and Biorobotic Systems Group. His research lies at the intersection of Robotics, Computer Vision, and AI, focusing on medical and surgical applications. Sadra is a recipient of the 2024 ETH Robotics Student Fellowship and an incoming student fellow at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He was awarded the E3 Research Fellowship at EPFL, Switzerland in 2023 and completed an internship at the Computational Robot Design & Fabrication Lab working on soft robotics. Previously, Sadra finished his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in 2022.

ECE 464 - Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Intervention

Basic concepts of computer-integrated intervention. Surgical CAD/CAM, assist and simulation systems. Actuators and imagers. Medical robot design, control and optimization. Surgeon-robot interface technology. Haptic feedback in surgical simulation and teleoperation. Virtual fixtures. Time delay compensation in telesurgery. Cooperative manipulation control. Overview of existing systems for robot-assisted intervention and for virtual-reality surgical simulation. Prerequisite: ECE 360 or ECE 462 or E E 357 or E E 462 or consent of the Department. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 464 or E E 464.

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