Associate Professor

Phone No: +98 21 84062450-304

Email: delrobaei@kntu.ac.ir

Personal website: http://wp.kntu.ac.ir/delrobaei

Personal website: http://wp.kntu.ac.ir/delrobaei

Education:

    Post-doctorate: Clinical Research Fellow, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada, 2016.

      Post-doctorate: Industrial Research Fellow, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, 2012.

       Ph.D.: Control Systems and Robotics, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, 2010.

       M.Sc.: Electrical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2003.

B.Sc.: Electrical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, 1999.

 

Research Interest:

• Biomechatronic Systems
• Assistive Robotics
• Wearable Technologies
• Augmented Reality

Biography:

Mehdi Delrobaei received the B.Sc. degree from Shiraz University, Iran, in 2000, the M.Sc. degree from the K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree from Western University, Canada, in 2010, all in electrical engineering. He completed post-doctoral training with Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute, Canada, from 2011 to 2016. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechatronics and Biomedical Engineering and the Research Thrust leader on Assistive Robotic and Biomechatronic Systems with the Center for Research and Technology (CREATECH), Faculty of Electrical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology. His current research work focused on biomechatronic systems and wearable technologies.

Selected journal papers:

1. Delrobaei, S. Memar, M. Pieterman, T. W. Stratton, K. McIsaac, M. Jog, “Towards Remote Monitoring of Parkinson’s Disease Tremor using Wearable Motion Capture Systems,” J. Neurological Sciences, vol. 384, pp. 38–45, 2018.
2. Delrobaei, N. Baktash, G. Gilmore, K. McIsaac, M. Jog, “Using Wearable Technology to Generate Objective Parkinson’s Disease Dyskinesia Severity Score: Possibilities for Home Monitoring,” IEEE Trans. Neural Systems and Rehab. Eng., 2017.
3. Memar, M. Delrobaei, G. Gilmore, K. McIsaac, M. Jog, “Segmentation and Detection of Physical Activities during a Sitting Task in Parkinson’s Disease Participants using Multiple Inertial Sensors,” J. Applied Biomed, 2017.
4. Delrobaei, S. Tran, G. Gilmore, K. McIsaac, M. Jog, “Characterization of Multi-joint Upper Limb Movements in a Single Task to Assess Bradykinesia,” J. Neurological Sciences, 2016.
5. Delrobaei, F. Rahimi, M. E. Jackman, S. F. Atashzar, M. Shahbazi, R. V. Patel, M. Jog, “Kinetic and Kinematic Assessment of Upper Limb Movements in Patients with Writer’s Cramp,” Journal of Neuro-Engineering and Rehabilitation, 2016.