Rajni Patel

Biography

"Dr. Rajni Patel received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge, England, in 1973 and currently holds the position of Distinguished University Professor and Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a cross appointment in the Department of Surgery in the Schulich School Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Dr. Patel also serves as Director of Engineering for Canadian Surgical Technologies & Advanced Robotics (CSTAR), a research program of the London Health Sciences Centre and the Lawson Health Research Institute. Dr. Patel has published more than 420 papers in refereed journals and conferences in the areas of robotics/mechatronics (including applications in surgery and therapy, rehabilitation and other nuerological movement disorders), haptics and teleoperation, systems and control, artificial neural networks and intelligent systems. He has co-authored a textbook and 7 research monographs on robotics and control, and co-edited an IEEE Press Reprint Book on Numerical Linear Algebra Techniques for Systems and Control. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Canadian Academy of Engineering, Life Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of ASME (USA), IET (UK), and EIC (Canada). Dr. Patel has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and Automatica (the Journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)), and is currently on the editorial board of the Jouarnal of Medical Robotics Research and a member of the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada."

Research Interest

Robotics/Mechatronics for Surgery and Therapy; Computer-Assisted Medical Interventions; Haptics and Teleoperation; Concentric-Tube Robots; Force and Shape Sensing; Minimally Invasive Surgery; Surgical Training and Skills Assessment; Robotics for Stroke Rehabilitation; Robotic Applications for Neurological Movement Disorders; Biomedical Systems; Human-Computer Interaction; Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems; Robot Design and Control; Space Robotics, Real-Time Simulation and Control.