Mahdi Tavakoli is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada. Mahdi Tavakoli’s research interests broadly involve the areas of robotics and systems control. Specifically, his research focuses on haptics and teleoperation control, medical robotics, and image-guided surgery. Dr. Tavakoli is the first author of the book “Haptics for Teleoperated Surgical Robotic Systems” (2008).

Personal Website: http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~mtavakol
Lab website: http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~tbs
Social media hub: https://mahdi-tavakoli.github.io