S.M.Hadi Sadati, PhD – Posdoc Research Associate in Robotic Systems Engineering

S.M.Hadi Sadati, PhD
Contact: smh_sadati(at)kcl.ac.uk

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Robotic Systems Engineering at Robotics and Vision in Medicine (RViM) Lab, Dep. of Surgical and Interventional Engineering, King’s College London, UK, working within the ERC starting grant “PIONEER” awarded to Dr. Christos Bergeles and Dr. Lyndon Da Cruz on the development of robotic instrumentation that delivers stem cells to diseased retinal layers. I have a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2012 and a Ph.D. in Robotics from King’s College London, London, UK, in 2018. I have been a postdoc research associate in Morphological Computation at University of Bristol in 2017-19, and a visiting researcher at Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA), École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland in 2019; at Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA in 2017; and at Morph Lab, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London, UK in 2016-17.

Research experience & interests: Continuum Manipulators, Soft Robotics, Medical Robotics, Variable Stiffness Structures, Bioinspiration, Morphological Contribution, System Dynamics, Planning & Automation, Mechatronic Design.

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£10.5K “King’s Global Engagement Partnership Fund”, King’s College London, UK, 2020

Graduate Teaching Scholar (GTS) fully funded PhD study at King’s College London, UK, 2014-18

Travel support:

2K CHF Visiting research support, Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA), EPFL, Switzerland, 2019

€500 IEEE Summer School on Control of Surgical Robots (COSUR), Livorno, Italy, 2016

$200 ASME DSCC conference travel grant, Columbus, USA, 2015

3 x £500 Conference fund, Informatics Department, King’s College London, UK, 2015-17

Publication Award:

Excellent Oral Presentation Award in Robot System Design and Control Session, Int. Conf. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (ICMAE), IEEE, Prague, Czech Rep., 2017

Best Student Paper Award, 7th IEEE Int. Conf. Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS), Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2014

Distinguished BSc Thesis Finalist , Amirkabir U.T., Iran, 2010