Amir Hooshiar
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Surgery
Dr. Amir Hooshiar joined the Department of Surgery as a Postdoctoral Researcher. His doctoral research was on haptics-enabled robot-assisted surgical systems for cardiovascular intervention. He was an NSERC Vanier Scholar during his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Concordia University and received the 2018 NSERC Gilles-Brassard Doctoral Prize for Interdisciplinary Research.
Amir is the department’s first surgical robotics scientist and works toward establishing the Surgical Robotics Centre (SRC). His expertise is in the design, modeling, and control of surgical robots. He aims to conduct interdisciplinary research on next-gen (semi-)autonomous surgical robots for endoscopic, endoluminal, and percutaneous procedures. Amir hopes to place the SRC among the top surgical robotics centers in North America in collaboration with surgeons, clinical staff, science and engineering faculty members, and MedTech partners.
Amir Hooshiar, Alireza Payami, Javad Dargahi, Siamak Najarian. (2021). Magnetostriction-based Force Feedback for Robot-assisted Cardiovascular Surgery using Smart Magnetorheological Elastomers. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. : 1-15.
Amir Hooshiar, Siamak Najarian, Javad Dargahi. (2020). Haptic Telerobotic Cardiovascular Intervention: a Review of Approaches, Methods, and Future Perspectives. IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering. 13: 32-50.
Ali Alkhalaf, Amir Hooshiar, Javad Dargahi. (2020). Composite Magnetorheological Elastomers for Tactile Display: Enhanced MR-effect Through Bilayer Composition. Journal of Composites Part B: Engineering. 190(1): 107888.
Amir Hooshiar, Amir Sayadi, Javad Dargahi, Siamak Najarian. (2020). An Integral-free Rotation Measurement Method via Stereoaccelerometery with Application in Robot-assisted Catheter Intervention. IEEE/ASME Transactions of Mechatronics. : 1-10.
Mohammad Jolaei, Amir Hooshiar, Javad Dargahi, Muthukumaran Packirisamy. (2020). Toward Task Autonomy in Robotic Cardiac Ablation: Learning-based Kinematic Control of Soft Tendon-driven Catheters. Soft Robotics. : 1-21.
Amir Hooshiar, Ali Alkhalafi, Javad Dargahi. (2020). Development and Assessment of a Stiffness Display System for Minimally Invasive Surgery based on Smart Magneto-rheological Elastomers. Material Science and Engineering: C. 108: 110409.
Amir Hooshiar, Javad Dargahi, Siamak Najarian. (2020). Real-time Image-based Force Estimation along Endovascular Devices using Inverse Cosserat Rod Model (iCORD) for Robot-assisted Cardiovascular Interventional Surgery. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. : 1-17.
Naghmeh M. Bandari; Roozbeh Ahmadi; Amir Hooshiar; Javad Dargahi; Muthukumaran Packirisamy. (2017). A hybrid piezoresistive-optical tactile sensor for simultaneous measurement of tissue stiffness and detection of tissue discontinuity in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 22(7): 077002.
Masoud Razban, Amir Hooshiar, Naghmeh M. Bandari, Chun Yi Su, Javad Dargahi. (2016). Swing up and Transition to Optimal Control for a Single Inverted Pendulum. International Journal of Mechanical And Production Engineering. 4(10): 84-89.