ARAS Current Members

Alireza Montazeri received his B.Sc. degree in control engineering from K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2019. Currently, he is pursuing his M.Sc. degree in mechatronic engineering at K.N Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, since 2019. He joined the ARAS group since September 2019. His work is focused on Eye surgery training using Mixed Reality. Mainly he makes a 3D model of eye organs and implements physics that affecting them.

Mohammad Sina Allahkaram received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology. He is currently pursuing his M.Sc. degree in Mechatronics Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad. His main research interest includes Artificial intelligence & Deep Learning in Autonomous Robotics.

Mohammad Ghaderzadeh was born in Saqqez, Kurdistan, Iran. He received his bachelor’s degree in Power Electrical Engineering from the University of Kurdistan. He is currently pursuing his M.Sc. degree in Control Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad and Dr. Amir Hossein Nikoofard at K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He is also an IEEE volunteer in the Iran section as a member of Student Activities and Young Professional committees. Furthermore, He is a corresponding member of the Humanitarian Activities Committee of IEEE R8 (Europe, Middle East, and Africa). His main research interest includes Control Theory, Distributed Optimal Control, Control of Connected Autonomous Vehicles, Artificial intelligence & Deep Learning.

Marzie Lafouti was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1998. She was graduated from Farzanegan high school (NODET), Tehran, Iran, in 2016. She has received her B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2020. Now, she is a master’s student of control engineering at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. She has joined the ARAS robotics team in 2020. She is interested in intelligent control, deep learning, image processing, detection, and tracking objects.

Hi there, my name is Mohammad Bajelani. I was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1998. I have been graduated in (Aerospace Engineering) from K.N Toosi University of Technology in 2020. My bachelor’s background involves designing and programming Autopilot and multirotor HIL test-bed. I’ve currently joined to (PACR ARAS group) as an M.Sc. student. I’m interested in implementing RL-based controllers in the Mechatronics system.

Sahar Salehi was born in Mashhad, Iran in 1995. She has been living in Tehran since she was a child. She received her B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Shariaty Technical College, Tehran, Iran, in 2017. She is currently pursuing her M.Sc. in mechatronic engineering at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. She joined Advanced Robotics & Automated Systems (ARAS) Lab as a member of the Mixed Reality research group under the supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad in October 2020. Her research interests are Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.

Mohammad Mahdi was born in Qom, Iran, in 1997. He has commenced microcontroller programming since primary school, then pursued robotics since guidance school (in Shahid Qoddusi-NODET). By starting high school, he succeeded in Instrumentation followed by AI. Then he performed his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering (Control Branch) at Shahed University where he fulfilled his thesis on RL. Presently he is pursuing his M.Sc. in Control Engineering at K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Applied science has always been his passion in every sense of the word.

Mohammad Mahdi Nazeri Ardakani was born in Yazd, Iran , in 1997. He graduated from Rahimifar NODET high school, Yazd, Iran, in 2016. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, control systems from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, under the supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad. He is currently pursuing his M.Sc. degree in Control Engineering at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, under the supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad. He is also a member of surgical robotic team in Advanced Robotics & Automated Systems (ARAS). His main research interests are Robotics and Tele-Robotics, Teleoperation Control, Control theory, Haptics, and Surgical Robots.

Sanam Taali-Pasand was born in Rasht, Iran, in 1993. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees both in electrical engineering, control systems from University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, in 2015 and Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran, Iran, in 2019 respectively. She is currently perusing her second M.Sc. degree in mechatronic engineering at K. N. Toosi University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad. She is also a member of surgical robotic team in Advanced Robotics & Automated Systems (ARAS). Her main research interests are Robotics and Tele-Robotics, Teleoperation Control, Haptics and Surgical Robots.

Interested in Robotics, MAVs, and Controller design.

Mohammadreza Dindarloo is a graduate student in Control Engineering at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He is a member of the parallel and cable robots (PACR) group in the Advanced Robotics and Automated System (ARAS) Lab under the supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad. He did his bachelor’s thesis in the surgical robotic (SR) group in ARAS. His main research interest includes robot localization, perception, SLAM, sensor fusion, factor graph and etc. He is also interested in doing research in Control theory, Artificial intelligence Deep Neural network algorithms.

Ali Salimian was born in Tehran, Iran. He is in the last year of his bachelor’s studies in Electrical Engineering. He is interested in Machine Learning, Image Processing, and Computational Methods. Currently, He is working in ARAS robotic lab on a computational algorithm to generate fabricable marquetry art. The task consists of two phases: a segmentation procedure followed by a search to find the fittest region of woods for each segment.

Mehdi Vakili was born in Tehran, Iran. He entered K. N. Toosi University of technology with top rank admission and he is in last year B. Sc. in Control engineering. He joined Advanced Robotics and Automated System (ARAS) Lab under supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad in Nov. 2021. His current project is the implementation of Smart Shelf, low cost intelligent gadget, consists of computer vision and real-time interactive tasks. His major intrests are in embedded systems, microcontroller programming, AI, deeplearning, computer vision, robotics.

Ali Pazani was born on July 26, 2000, in Tehran. He entered K. N. Toosi University of Technology in 2018 and is in his last year in B. Sc. Electrical Engineering. He joined ARAS Lab in July 2021. His major interests are control systems, Robotics, programming microcontrollers, AI, and machine learning. He is now working on Wi-Fi interaction between robot and android application over a TCP connection in the Kamal-ol-Molk project.

Alireza Zahedi was born on July 28, 2000, in Tehran. He started his bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering at K. N. Toosi University Of Technology in September 2018 and now he is a senior student. He joined ARAS Group in May 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Hamid. D Taghirad. His interest in CDPRs led him to work as a member of the PACR group. His main project is about designing Kamal-Ol-Molk II, an easily deployable cable-based portrayer robot. His interests are mainly in Robotics, Control systems, and AI.

Aria Saki was born on March 14, 2002 in Khorram Abad. He started his bachelor in Electrical Engineering at K. N. Toosi University Of Technology in September 2020 and now he is a sophomore student. He joined ARAS Group in January 2022 under supervision of Prof. Hamid. D Taghirad. His interest in CDPRs led him to work as a member of the PACR group. His main project is about designing ARAS Cable cam, an easily deployable cable-based camera robot. His other interests are mainly about Robotics, Electronics and Programming.

Seyed Ahmad Khalilpour has received his B.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering from Shahed University, Tehran, Iran, in 2010, his M.Sc. in mechatronic engineering in 2013 from K.N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran. He is currently pursuing a PhD in control engineering at K.N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran. His current research interests include various aspects of dynamics and control of parallel robots with particular emphasis on cable-driven robots.

Mohammad Motaharifar received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2009, and the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, in 2011. He was a Research Assistant at Real time Systems Laboratory, Electrical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology from 2011 to 2014. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree from the K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran. His research interests include robotics, medical robotics, adaptive control of nonlinear systems, and robust control.

Arash has finished his B. Sc. in Control engineering at Amirkabir University of Technology – Tehran Polytechnic in 2016, and started his M. Sc. program in the same major at K.N Toosi University of Technology – Tehran since October 2016 to 2018. His thesis was on  focused on Surgical Robotics, mainly  development of robotic systems that assists novice surgeons get more effective training. He is currently continuing his research in the group as a research assistance, working on the Version 3 of ARASH-ASiST: ARAS Haptic System for EYE Surgery Training.

Farnoosh was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1993. She obtained her B.Sc. degree in Aerospace Engineering and M.Sc. degree in Mechatronics, both from K. N. Toosi University of Technology. During her Master studies, she worked as a researcher in the advanced vehicle control systems laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Ali Ghaffari and graduated in 2019. After that, she joined ARAS group as a member of the autonomous robotics team. Her research interests are Machine Learning, Deep CNN, RNN, and applications in autonomous systems, self-driving cars, and image processing.

Parisa Forghani studied at K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, where she obtained a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (Control-Oriented) in 2020, her thesis being “Design and Construction of a Motor Asymmetry Assessment System to Monitor Patients with Parkinson’s Disease”.
Parisa joined the ARAS Lab, Autonomous Robotics research group, in December 2020. Her current project focuses on Artificial Intelligence ways to help Corneal Diseases like Keratoconus.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science and, Computer Vision are her research interests.

Ashkan Rashvand was born in 26 June 1997 in Qazvin. He graduated from Shahid Babaii NODET (National Organization for Developement of Exceptional Talent) high school. He finished his B.Sc. in controls engineering at Imam Khomeini International University in 2019 with 3.78/4 total GPA. He has always believed that the most important factors to a person’s success in a specific field are their motivation and interest in that field. Believing this idea helped him to be ranked one of the top student during his bachelor position. He started his M. Sc. program in the same major at K.N Toosi University of Technology under supervision of Prof. Taghirad . Now he is a member of ARAS group. His main research interests is robotics (Robots motion planning ,Robots-Assisted Therapy) and Artificial Life.

Ali Farajzadeh was born in November 1996 in Tabriz. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in Control Engineering from Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran. He is currently pursuing his M.Sc. degree in Control Engineering at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran under supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad. In line with his research interests in robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning he joined Advanced Robotics and Automated system (ARAS) group in October 2019.

Arefe Rezaee has received her M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from K.N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran in 2019. She joined to APAC group under supervision DR. Alireza Fatehi and DR. Behrooz Nasihatkon since 2016. She was a Researcher in Autonomous Driving Systems and Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) at Industrial Automation laboratory. Her thesis was a Traffic Sign Recognition System based on Hierarchical Convolutional Neural Networks and Using Geometric Features For Autonomous Driving. Now she joined ARAS group as a member of the autonomous robotics team and her current research interests are Self Driving, 3D pose estimation and action recognition.

He received his B. Sc. in 2017 from Tabriz University with a major in Mechanical Engineering. Currently, he’s pursuing his M. Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering in K. N. Toosi University of Technology under supervision of Prof. Taghirad and is currently a Masters Student in Parallel and Cable Robotics research group.

Sodabe Bandali Was Born In Hamedan, Iran. She received her B.S.C Degree In Electrical Engineering From Hamedan University Of Technology, She Is currently pursuing M.Sc. in Control Engineering at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. She joined ARAS Lab Mixed Reality research group under the supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad in 2019. Her research interests are Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality . Her work is focused on Eye surgery Simulators.

Amin Mardani is a member of Autonomous Robotics research group in ARAS lab. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Qom University of Technology, Qom, Iran. Amin is currently pursuing his M.Sc. degree at K. N. Toosi University of technology, Tehran, Iran under supervision of Dr. Taghirad (KNTU, Tehran, Tehran, Iran) and advisement of Dr. Biglarbegian (University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada). His research interests lie in Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Trajectory Prediction, Deep Learning and Image Processing.

Hamed Sadeghi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1996. Hamed finished his B. Sc. in Control engineering at K.N Toosi University of Technology – Tehran in 2018 and graduated his M. Sc. program in the same major at K.N Toosi University of Technology – Tehran in February 2022. He has accomplished his thesis in ARAS since 2015. His thesis was focused on Surgical Robotics, mainly design and implementation of the Electronic hardware of ARASH-ASiST: ARAS Haptic System for EYE Surgery Training, and furthermore, surgical skill assessment using kinematic data by using deep-learning algorithms.

Parisa Hasani received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Shariaty Technical College, Tehran, Iran, in 2018. She is obtained her M.Sc. degree in control engineering in 2022, from the K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. She have accomplished her research in ARAS and Surgical Robotics group since October 2018. Her research interests include haptics, medical robotics, master-slave teleoperation, and evaluation in robotic-assisted systems for minimally invasive surgery. Her thesis was based on surgical assessment of intraocular surgeries, using kinematics data.

Ali Hassani was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1996. He received the B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from the Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran, in 2018, and the M.Sc. degree in mechatronics engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2022. He is currently a Researcher with Advanced Robotics and Automated System (ARAS), K. N. Toosi University of Technology. His current research interests include:

• Robotics and Mechatronic Systems
• Medical Robotics and Robot-Assisted Surgery Systems
• Parallel Manipulators
• Multibody System Dynamics

Mohammad Reza Jafari Harandi received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2014 and 2016 respectively. Then he received his Ph.D. in Control Engineering from  K. N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran, in 2021. His current research interests include various aspects including stabilization of underactuated robots, adaptive control, passivity based control, power systems, parallel and cable-driven robots.

He started his technical activity before entering university by C++ language  programming in linux which led him to program the intelligence of 11 player soccer team and participate in 2D soccersim matches. Then he began to experience programming on micro-controllers and working on sensors after entering bachelor’s degree in Shahid Beheshti University. He is currently the team leader of Autonomous Robotics research group working on deep learning and its application for detection and tracking of ARAS self driving Car.

Samane Kaviri was born in Kashan, Iran, in 1988. She obtained her high school diploma from Farzanegan high school (NODET), Kashan in 2006. She received her B.Sc. degree from Electrical Engineering department of Iran University of Science and Technology in 2010 and her M.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering from University of Tehran in 2012.  She is currently working towards her PhD degree at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran. Her current research interest is control of multi-agent systems with special interest in coverage control of autonomous agents, distributed optimal control and distributed estimation.

I obtained my B. Sc. degree in  2017 from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT) in the field of mechanical engineering. I’m currently pursuing my M. Sc. degree in Mechatronics engineering at K.N.Toosi University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. Currently, I am a member of the Cable-Driven Robots(CDR) group in ARAS lab. My main research interest is design and analysis of cable robotic manipulators and currently, I work on Design, Implementation and analysis of a deployable and fast fully constrained planner cable-driven robot.

Abbas is a graduate of Mechatronics Engineering from the department of Mechanical engineering at the K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Under the advisory of Prof. Taghirad, he is a member of Advanced Robotics and Automated Systems (ARAS). He received his BS degree in Robotics Engineering from Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran, where he worked under the supervision of Dr. Toosian Shandiz, in 2014.

Samim Khosravi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1990. He received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from the K.N.Toosi University, Tehran, Iran in 2012, and the Master degree in control field of electrical engineering in 2015. He joined to ARAS group under supervision Dr. Hamid D. Taghirad since 2011. He was interested in robotics, teleoperation systems and eye surgery robots. His current position is automation engineer in Control Pooyan Co.

Amin is a mechatronics engineer who collaborates with ARAS group after graduation, and currently, he is working as a researcher and mechanical design expert at ARAS. His current activity at ARAS is working on a redesigned model of a haptic device which is part of the eye surgery robotics project. Amin’s Education background involves a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Babol University of Technology at 2013 and an MSc in Mechatronics Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology at 2016. Amin has implemented the KNTU Delta robot in his master thesis, and he invented a mechanism for the robotics eye surgery project.

I am Amir Mobarhani. I was born in Iran (1988). I have received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Dept. of Electrical and computer Engineering, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. I’m a member of Advanced Robotics & Automated Systems (ARAS) group since 2008. I have participated and contributed in various research projects in Advanced Robotics & Automated Systems (ARAS) group.

Hamid Didari has received his B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from K.N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran, in 2015. He is currently pursuing a M.Sc. in control engineering at K.N. Toosi University, Tehran, Iran. His current research interests include various aspects of SLAM algorithm, UAV autonomy and ROS.

Golnaz Raja was born in Tehran, Iran in 1996, she received her Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering-Software from K. N. Toosi University of technology in 2019. Her current research includes Augmented Reality and Computer Vision and she joined ARAS Lab Mixed Reality research group under the supervision of Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad  on October 2019. Her research interests are Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence alongside Machine Learning and Deep Learning.