Curriculum Vitae IMAN KHALAJI Contact information Mailing address: Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics (CSTAR) 339 Windermere Road London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5A5 Tel.: (519) 661-2111 Ext. 36551 email: ikhalaji@uwo.ca Education Jan 2010 Present Sep 2003 Jan 2006 Sep 1999 Sep 2003 PhD Student Mechanical and Materials Engineering University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada Advisors: Dr. Rajni V. Patel, Dr. Michael D. Naish Master of Science Mechanical Engineering Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran Advisors: Dr. Hamid Jahed, Dr. Ahmad Varvani-Farahani Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran Advisor: Dr. Saeed Ziaee Rad Honours, Awards and Academic Accomplishments 2012 2013 Graduate Thesis Research Award, UWO ($1500) 2012 2013 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) ($15,000 per annum) 2011 2012 Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST) ($15,000 per annum) 2010 2012 NSERC CREATE program in Computer-Assisted Medical Interventions (CAMI), UWO ($10,500 per annum) 2008 2009 Graduate Thesis Research Award, UWO ($754) 2008 2009 Best Presentation Award in Graduate Symposium, Elec. and Comp. Eng. Dept., UWO ($150) 2008 2009 NIH/NIBIB EMBC08 Conference Support Award ($250 USD) Page 1 of 5
Research Interests Surgical instrument design and manufacturing Mechatronics Modal, vibrational and Finite Element analysis Computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) Biomedical image processing Teaching Experience 2012 2013 Lecturer, University of Western Ontario Course: Applied Measurement and Sensing Systems o Period: Fall 2012 o Tasks: Lectured this graduate-level course to a class of graduate students. 2007 2013 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Western Ontario Course: Mechanical Components Design o Period: Winter 2013 o Tasks: Supervised and helped students in their weekly lab assignments. Course: Introduction to Mechatronic Design o Mechanical/Electrical Engineering Department o Period: Winter 2012 o Tasks: Prepared and gave lectures (advanced CAD), supervised students in performing their course projects in Mechatronics Lab, evaluated their final projects. Course: Applied Measurement and Sensing Systems o Period: Fall 2011 o Tasks: Supervised and helped students in their weekly lab assignments, evaluated their final projects. Course: Robotics and Manufacturing Automation o Period: Winter 2011 o Tasks: Supervised and assisted students in performing their lab assignments and their group final projects. Page 2 of 5
Course: Mechanics of Materials o Period: Fall 2010 Course: Introductory Engineering Design and Innovation Studio o Faculty of Engineering o Periods: Fall 2009, Winter 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Winter 2007 o Tasks: Supervised students in weekly design studios, advised first-year engineering students in their innovative research projects, marked reports and design notebooks, evaluated group presentations, proctored mid-term and final-term exams. Course: Introduction to Image Processing o Electrical and Computer Engineering Department o Period: Winter 2008 Course: Advanced Image Processing and Analysis o Biomedical Engineering Department o Period: Winter 2009 o Tasks: gave lectures (ITK, VTK and their applications in image segmentation and registration), designed assignments for ITK/VTK part of the course, marked MATLABbased assignments, evaluated students projects presentations. Research Experience 2010 2013 Canadian Surgical Technology and Advanced Robotics (CSTAR) Ph.D. research project: Precision lung tumour resection 2007 2009 Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., University of Western Ontario Research project: Prostate needle biopsy guidance using TRUS A real-time finite element model was proposed and evaluated. An automatic FE hexahedral mesh generation module for carotid arteries is implemented and added to vmtk (www.vmtk.org). 2003 2006 Fatigue and Fracture Lab, Iran University of Science and Technology Masters research project: Energy-based fatigue life prediction model for proportional and non-proportional loading 2002 2003 Mechanical Eng. Dept., Isfahan University of Technology and NasSanat Comp. Undergraduate research project: Condition monitoring (vibrational analysis of rotary machineries) Volunteer Experience 2011 2012 Member of Bylaws Committee, Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Union, UWO Page 3 of 5
2010 2011 Member of Human Rights Committee, Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Union, UWO Work Experience Summer 2003 Internship at NasSanat Co., Mobarakeh Steel Company, Isfahan, Iran 2003 2007 Abnil Chemical Company, Isfahan, Iran The company produces water-based emulsion resins used for paints, inks, adhesives etc. Worked as mechanical engineer and performed maintenance of mechanical machineries. Professional/Scientific Associations Societies 2010 2013 Student member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2010 2013 Student member of IEEE and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBS) 2012 2013 Student member of IEEE Robotics & Automation Society (RAS) 2011 2012 Student member of IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (UFFC) 2011 2012 Student member of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2008 2009 Student member of International Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE) Publications and Contributions Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers: Published/Accepted/In Press/Submitted 1. S.R. Mousavi, I. Khalaji, A. Sadeghi Naini, K. Raahemifar, A. Samani, Statistical finite element method for real-time tissue mechanics analysis, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 595 608, 2012. 2. H. Jahed, A. Varvani-Farahani, M. Noban, I. Khalaji, An energy-based fatigue life assessment model for various metallic materials under proportional and non-proportional loading conditions, Int. J of Fatigue, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 647 655, 2007. Peer-Reviewed Papers in Conference Proceedings 1. S.F. Atashzar, I. Khalaji, M. Shahbazi, A. Talasaz, R.V. Patel, M.D. Naish, "Robot-assisted lung motion compensation during needle insertion", Presented in IEEE International Conference Page 4 of 5
on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Germany, 2013. (The first three authors equally contributed to the work presented in this paper.) 2. I. Khalaji, R.V. Patel, M.D. Naish, Systematic design of an ultrasonic horn profile for high displacement amplification, In Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2012 4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on, pp. 913-918. IEEE, 2012. 3. I. Khalaji, K. Rahemifar, A. Samani, Accelerated statistical shape model-based technique for tissue deformation estimation, Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE. 7261, Article number 72610U, 2009. 4. I. Khalaji, K. Rahemifar, A. Samani, (2009) Statistical finite element analysis, Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08, Article number 4650478, pp. 5577 5580, 2008. 5. H. Jahed, A. Varvani-Farahani, M. Noban, I. Khalaji, An energy-based fatigue life model for proportional and non-proportional loading conditions, 9th International Fatigue Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2006. 6. I. Khalaji, H. Jahed, A. Varvani-Farahani, M. Noban, Out-of-phase loading life prediction using energy-fatigue life relation, 14th Annual (International) Mechanical Engineering Conference, Isfahan, Iran, 2006. Peer-Reviewed Abstracts 1. I. Khalaji, K. Rahemifar, A. Samani, Elastic modulus reconstruction using a novel fast finite element model, Proceedings of 7th International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity, Austin, Texas, USA, p. 102, 2008. Poster Presentations 1. I. Khalaji, R.V. Patel, M.D. Naish, Towards miniaturization of ultrasonically activated scalpels, London Health Research Day, London, Ontario, Canada, March 2012. 2. I. Khalaji, A. Samani, Real-time prostate deformable model - preliminary application in prostate ultrasound elastography for tumour detection, CIHR Team Grant and OICR Imaging Pipeline Platform / One millimeter Cancer Challenge Workshop, Imaging Applications in Prostate Cancer, London, Ontario, November 2009. 3. I. Khalaji, H. Karimi, A. Samani, Tissue elasticity imaging using accelerated finite element technique, WORLDiscoveries Research Showcase, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, January 2009. Page 5 of 5