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

CME Research Fellow
Contact: smh_sadati(at)kcl.ac.uk

I am a Research Fellow in the Robotics and Vision in Medicine (RViM) Lab within KCL BMEIS School. I have a PhD (2018) in Soft Robotics at Prof. Thrishantha Nanayakkara’s Morph Lab, Imperial & King’s College London, UK, a MSc (2012), and a BSc (2010) in Mechanical Engineering from the Sharif & Amirkabir Universities, Iran. I have been a postdoc in Medical Continuum Robotics at Dr. Christos Bergeles’s RViM lab, KCL (2019-2021) and in Morphological Computation with Spiders’ web at Dr. Helmut Hauser’s Morphological Computation lab, University of Bristol (2017-2019). I was also a Visiting Researcher at Prof. Aude Billard’s LASA Lab, EPFL (2019 & 21), Prof. Robert Katzschmann’s Soft Robotics Lab, ETH (2021), and Prof. Ian Walker’s Lab, Clemson University (2017). My research interests are Soft Medical Robotics, Bioinspiration, Embodied intelligence, System Dynamics, and Control.

CME Research Fellow (Wellcome Trust), “Reinventing Catheters by Soft Robotics for Autonomous Robotic Thrombectomy in Acute Stroke (ART)”, Dr. Christos Bergeles, Dr. Thomas Booth, Robotics and Vision in Medicine (RViM) Lab, King’s College London, UK. May 2021 – 23

Research Associate (Part Time, Innovate UK Project), “STREAM – Snake Robotics for on-Engine Advanced thermal Mapping” Pro. Kaspar Althoefer, Advanced Robotics at Queen Mary (ARQ) Lab, Queen Mary University of London, UK, & Dr Solon Karagiannopoulos, Sensor Coating Company Ltd., London, UK, Feb – Oct 2022

Visiting researcher, “DS-Approach in Medical Robotics”, Prof. A Billard, Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA), EPFL, Switzerland, Nov-Dec 2019, Aug & Nov 2021

Visiting researcher, Prof. R Katzmann, Soft Robotics Lab, ETH, Switzerland, Oct 2021

Postdoc Research Associate (Leverhulme Trust Project) in Morphological Computation with Spiders’ Web, “Leverhulme Trust Project: Computing with spiders’ webs – An inspiration for new sensors and robots”, Dr. H Hauser, Morphological Computation, University of Bristol, UK. Nov 2017 – Apr 19

Postdoc Research Associate (ERC Staring grant) in Robotic Systems Engineering, “ERC PIONEER: Peri-Ocularly Navigated Exteroceptive Snake Robot for Novel Retinal Interventions”, Dr. C Bergeles, Robotics and Vision in Medicine (RViM) Lab, King’s College London, UK. May 2019 – 21

Visiting Scholar, “Continuum Manipulator Reduced-Order Modeling”, Prof. I D Walker, Clemson University, USA, Nov 2017

Visiting PhD Student, “Bio-inspired Robotics”, Dr. T Nanayakkara, Morph Lab, Dyson, Imperial College London, UK, Jan 2017 – Oct 18

R&D Team Member & Manager, ASAME (Pasargad) Real Rescue Robotic Club, Dep. Mech. Eng., Amirkabir U. T. (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran. 2006-10

Fellowships, Scholarships, & Research Grants:

CME Fellowship Award (salary + £20K research costs , PI), “Reinventing Catheter Steering by Soft Robotics: A Tele-Supervised Semi-Autonomous Wound-Free Robotic Thrombectomy in Acute Stroke (ART)” BMEIS, KCL, UK, 2021 – 23

MIC Pump-Prime NIHR Grant (£19K – PI), “Reinventing Catheter by Soft Robotics: Autonomous Robotic Thrombectomy in Acute Stroke (ART)”, BMEIS, KCL, UK, 2021 – 22

King’s Global Engagement Partnership Fund (£10.5K, PI), “Dynamical System (DS) Approach for Continuum Medical Robotics Planning & Control”, joint research by RViM Lab, KCL, and LASA, EPFL, 2021 – 22

Graduate Teaching Scholar (PhD tuition + salary + £4K research costs) KCL, UK, 2014 – 17

Tuition-free Postgraduate Studies, MSc (Sharif U.T., Iran) & BSc (Amirkabir U.T., Iran), 2005 – 12

Publication Awards:

Excellent Oral Presentation, IEEE ICMAE conference, Prague, Czech Republic. 2017

Best Student Paper Award, IEEE ICIAfS conference, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka. 2013

Distinguished BSc thesis finalist, Amirkabir U.T., Tehran, Iran. 2010

Teaching Awards:

King’s Education Award nomination, Dept. of Imaging and Biomedical Science, KCL, UK, 2021

Travel Grants:

Visiting research support (2K CHF), LASA, EPFL, Switzerland, 2019

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

ASME DSCC conference travel grant ($200), Ohio, US, 2015

Conference travel fund (3 x £500), Dept. of Informatics, King’s College London, UK, 2015 – 17

National Qualification Exams:

Rank 14^th among 2K (Top 0.7%), Ph.D. qualification exam in Mechanical Eng. Control & Vibration, Iran, 2012

Rank 17^th among 10K (Top 0.2%), MSc qualification exam in Mechanical Engineering, Iran, 2010

Rank 697^th among 300K (Top 0.2%), BSc qualification exam in Math, Iran, 2005

Lecture: BEng 1st-year course, ‘Mechanics for Biomedical Engineering’ (40% – 16 Hrs, 2020-21 & 2021-22), Dept. Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, UK – 2021 Student Survey: 4.7/5 Dr Sadati’s lectures, 3.6/5 course overall satisfaction

Lecture: BEng 3rd-year course ‘Advanced Mechanics‘ (60% – 24 Hrs, 81 students, 2020-21), Dept. Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, UK – Student Survey: 3.8/5 course overall satisfaction

Supervision: MSc (11 Students, 2017-2020), BSc (4 Student, 2014&21), King’s College London & University of Bristol, UK – King’s Education Award nomination, KCL BMEIS, 2021

Graduate Teaching Scholar & Teaching Assistantship: Informatics Modules (900hr 2014-18), Medical Robotics (6hr 2019), King’s College London, UK

Reviewer Board of MDPI Robotics Journal (since 2020)

Review Editor in Bio-Inspired Robotics, Frontiers in Robotics and AI Journal (since 2020)

Special Issue Editor in Design, Modeling and Control of Kinematically Redundant Robots (2021-22) & Current Advances in Soft Robotics: Best Papers from RoboSoft, Frontiers in Robotics and AI Journal (2018-19)

Organizing Member of IEEE RAS Soft Robotics Newsletter & Debates (since 2015)

Co-chair for the IEEE ICRA 2021 Medical Robotics Award Session (2021)

Reviewer for more than 80 scientific journal (IJRR, T-RO, SoRo, IEEE RAM, RA-L, TMech/AIM, ASME JMR, Frontiers, MDPI, etc.) and conference (ICRA, IROS, RoboSoft, etc.) publications excluding revisions (since 2015)

Regular & Student Member, IEEE RAS & ASME (since 2014)