Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi
Director, Robotics, Mechatronics and Manufacturing Automation Laboratory
Professor
Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Toronto, Ontario
fsharifi@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 7097
Expert In
Advanced manufacturing
Biomedical engineering
Control systems
Haptic interfaces
Health and well-being
Human operator modelling
Image-guided surgery and intervention
Optomechatronic technologies and systems
Quantum software and responsible AI/machine learning
Robot learning
Robot-assisted, minimally invasive surgery
Robotics and automation
Robotics for heart surgery
Technology and intelligent systems
Use of aerial robots for COVID-19 sample collection
Vision-based control systems for robots
Visual systems for identifying COVID-19 infections
Bio/Research
Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi received the B.Sc. and M.A.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and the University of Toronto, ON, Canada, in 1987 and 1990, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University ...
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Bio/Research
Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi received the B.Sc. and M.A.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and the University of Toronto, ON, Canada, in 1987 and 1990, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada,in 1995. He is currently a Professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and the Director of the Robotics, Mechatronics, and Manufacturing Automation Laboratory, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) Toronto, ON, Canada. From 1995 to1997, he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow and an Instructor in the Center for Intelligent Machines and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada. In 1997, he joined the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Korea Advance Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea; IRISA-INRIA, Rennes, France; and the Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. He was an organizer and/or co-organizer of several international conferences on optomechatronic systems control. He was General Chair of the 2010 International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies, Toronto. He is currently an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Optomechatronics, and an Editorial Member of the Journal of Robotics and The Open Cybernetics and Systematics Journal. His research interests include optomechatronic systems with the focus on image-guided control and planning.
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