Dr. Kourosh Zareinia
Areas of Academic Interest
Haptics
Telerobotics
Surgical robotics
Virtual fixtures
Smart surgical tools
Haptic hand controllers
Education
| Year | University | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | University of Manitoba | PhD |
| 1997 | University of Tehran | MSc |
| 1994 | Isfahan University of Technology | BSc |
Selected Courses
| Course Code | Course |
|---|---|
| MEC 411 | Mechanics of Machines |
| ME8130 | Robotics |
Spotlight
Growing up, Kourosh Zareinia was always interested in machines that make our lives better. That interest led him to a career designing and developing robotic systems for a variety of medical applications, such as brain surgery, cognitive and physical rehabilitation, and the micromanipulation and microinjection of cells.
While improving people鈥檚 health is his number 1 goal, Zareinia is also motivated by the economic reality of an aging population drawing more and more on our health care system. For a solution, he looks to robotics. 鈥淟ong term, robotics can both reduce health-care costs and improve the quality of care by standardizing medical methods and treatments,鈥� he says. For example, in neurosurgery, the use of a haptic hand controller (a type of human-machine interface) can decrease surgeon training time while increasing accuracy and patient safety.
Currently, advancements in surgical technology lag behind other fields, says Zareinia. 鈥淏y partnering with medical experts, I can help bring surgical technology and methods up to date to improve lives now and in the future.鈥�
鈥淚 believe the main purpose of being an engineer is to help people.鈥�
- Zareinia, K., Maddahi, Y., Gan, L.S., Ghasemloonia, A., Lama, S., Sugiyama, T., Yang, F.W., and Sutherland, G.R. 鈥淎 Force-sensing Bipolar Forceps to Quantify Tool-tissue Interaction Forces in Microsurgery.鈥� IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 21, no. 5, 2016, pp. 2365-2376.
- Zareinia, K., and Sepehri, N. 鈥淎 Hybrid Haptic Sensation for Teleoperation of Hydraulic Manipulators.鈥� ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, vol. 137, no. 9, 2015, pp. 13.
- Zareinia, K., Maddahi, Y., Ng, C., Sepehri, N., and Sutherland, G.R. 鈥淧erformance Evaluation of Haptic Hand-controllers in a Robot-assisted Surgical System.鈥� International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, vol. 11, no. 4, 2015, pp. 486-501.
- Zareinia, K., Maddahi, Y., Sepehri, N., Olson, T., and Mueller, W. 鈥淯nilateral Control of Teleoperated Hydraulic Manipulators for Live-line Maintenance: Comparative Study.鈥� International Journal of Robotics and Automation, vol. 29, no. 2, 2014, pp. 3872-3912.
- Sugiyama, T., Lama, S., Gan, L.S., Maddahi, Y., Zareinia, K., and Sutherland, G.R. 鈥淔orces of Tool-tissue Interaction to Assess Surgical Skill Level,鈥� JAMA Surgery, vol. 153, no. 3, 2017, pp. 234-242.