Mehran Mehrandezh
Engineering
Southland Industries
Canada
Biography
Mehran Mehrandezh has completed his PhD and MASc in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto and Queens in 2000 and 1995, respectively. He has spent two years at Simon Fraser University in Canada as a Post-doctorate from 2000 to 2002. He has joined the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Regina in Canada in 2002, where he is currently a Full Professor. He has been a Member of IEEE since 1993 and was the Vice President of IEEE (South Saskatchewan) from 2004 to 2006. He has published over 80 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. His invention called Regina Pipe Crawler (RPC) was highlighted in the Popular Mechanics Magazine with a worldwide readership as one of the 5 high-tech fixes to infrastructure in 2009. His research revolves around robotics, control, computer vision and mechatronics.
Research Interest
Robotic systems for inspecting infrastructure
