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 CME Research Fellow in the Robotics and Vision in Medicine (RViM) Lab within the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King’s, investigating “Reinventing Catheters by Soft Robotics for Autonomous Robotic Thrombectomy in Acute Stroke (ART)”. I have a BSc (2010) and an MSc (2012) in Mechanical Engineering from the Amirkabir and Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran; and a PhD (2018) in Robotics from King’s College London, UK. I have held the position of Postdoctoral Research Associate in Robotic System Engineering in the RViM lab (2019-2021) and in Morphological Computation at the University of Bristol (2017-2019). I was also a Visiting Researcher in the Learning Algorithms and Systems Lab (LASA), EPFL Switzerland (2019), as well as Prof. Ian Walker’s lab, Clemson University (2017), and the Morph Lab, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London (2016-2017). I am a reviewer editor for the Frontiers in Robotics & AI Journal in Bio-inspired Robotics and serves at the reviewer board of MDPI Robotics Journal since 2020.

Research experience & interests: Soft Medical Robotics, Variable Stiffness Structures, Bioinspiration, Morphological Contribution, System Dynamics, Planning & Control, Mechatronics Design.

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£10.5K “King’s Global Engagement Partnership Fund” to promote KCL & EPFL collaborations, King’s College London, UK, 2020

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

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

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

National Qualification Exams

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

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

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

Continuum Robot Modeling (GitHub)	Medical Continuum Robotics
Bioinspiration & Morphological Contribution	Integrable Stiffening Interfaces
Passive Dynamic Walking	Real Rescue Robot