Author: Siamak Najarian

Javad Dargahi, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, Canada Dr. Dargahi received his Ph D from Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, in the area of “Robotic Tactile Sensing”, in 1993. He joined Concordia University, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, in September 2001. He received his tenure and was promoted to associate professor in June 2006. His research areas include: Design and fabrication of haptic sensors and feedback systems for minimally invasive surgery and robotics, micromachined sensors and actuators and teletaction. Dr. Dargahi has published 65 journal and 65 refereed conference papers. Saeed Sokhanvar, Senior Project Engineer, Helbling Precision Engineering, USA Saeed Sokhanvar is Senior Project Engineer at Helbling Precision Engineering, Cambridge, MA. Before this he was a Post Doctoral Fellow at MIT. He has received many academic awards and co-authored multiple articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Siamak Najarian, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran Prof. S. Najarian is Full-Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Amirkabir University of Technology. He completed his Ph D in Biomedical Engineering at Oxford University, and had a post-doctoral position at the same university for one year. His research interests are the applications of artificial tactile sensing (especially in robotic surgery), mechatronics in biological systems, and design of artificial organs. He is the author and translator of 26 books in the field of biomedical engineering, 9 of which are written in English. Prof. Najarian has published more than 170 international journal and conference papers in the field of biomedical engineering along with two international books in the same field.