Sadra Zargarzadeh

I am a 2nd-year 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. My research lies at the intersection of Robotics, Computer Vision, and AI with a focus on medical and surgical applications.

I am a recipient of the 2024 ETH Robotics Student Fellowship and a research fellow in the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich. I was awarded the E3 Fellowship at EPFL in 2023 and completed an internship at the Computational Robot Design & Fabrication Lab working on soft robotics. Previously, I finished my B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology.

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- Integrated Sensorization of a Humanoid Robotic Hand

- Soft Robot Inverse Kinematics and Control through Virtual Reality (Paper in ICRA 2024)
- Designed and Manufactured a Large Soft Robot with Actuators Capable of Gait Movement
- Investigated Potentials of Collaboration Between Robots and Plants from Bio-signals

- Integrated LLMs into Robot-Assisted Surgery for Decision-Making in Autonomous Blood Suctioning (Paper)
- Developed an Augmented Reality-Based Tumor Visualization System for Robot-Assisted Breast Cancer Surgeries (Paper in ICHMS 2024)
- Collaborated in the Development of a Surgical Simulator based on PhysX 5 (Paper in UR 2024)
- Collaborated in the Autonomization of Surgical Endoscopic Camera Control (Paper)

- Trained and Validated an Artificial Neural Network to Predict 3D Human Postures During Lifting Activities (Paper)
- Analysed and Compared Qualitative and Quantitative Biomechanical Tools to Evaluate Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs) in the Industry (Paper)

- Motion and Gait Analysis of Cerebral Palsy Children Using Vicon Nexus
- Assembled and Debugged Telerehabilitation Devices Used for Parkinson’s Patients