NSF-RAPID: COVID RESEARCH
We are honored to
announce that our active COVID19 research at MERIIT lab is now supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Rapid research grant. The project focuses on “Smart Wearable IoT COVID19 BioTracker Necklace: Remote Assessment, Early Diagnosis, Continual Monitoring, and Prediction of Health Anomalies”.
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June 10, 2020 |
Author: Farokh Atashzar Atashzar
[Short Bio]: Atashzar founded the MERIIT Lab at NYU in August 2019. From August 2019 to November 2024, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at New York University (NYU). He was also affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering and NYU WIRELESS Center. He received his Ph.D. in 2017. His research interests include applied computer science, robotics, AI, nonlinear and robust control, medical robotics, and biomedical signal processing. - - - - - -
[Service]: He served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. He also organized several workshops and events at IROS and ICRA. Additionally, he was co-chair of the IEEE RAS Cluster of Human-Centered Robotics and served as vice-chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee for Telerobotics. - - - - - -
[Postdoctoral Journey]: Before joining NYU, Atashzar was a senior postdoctoral scientist in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, UK, supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada. From February 2017 to August 2018, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics (CSTAR) center. - - - - - -
[Awards]: During his time at NYU, Atashzar received multiple grants and awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including an NIH R01 grant. Previously, he was awarded the highly competitive Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) in 2013 and an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) in 2018. He ranked among the top five applicants in Canada for the 2018 NSERC PDF competition in the Electrical and Computer Engineering sector. - - - - - -
[Research at MERIIT Lab]: https://spectrum.ieee.org/biosignals-robotics-and-rehabilitation
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