Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research interests and affiliations
Professor Mohebbi's research interests are related to the development of new methods and devices for assistive, rehabilitation and medical technologies. Consequently, he has integrated 3 research axes in his group and for each axis, the following research interests are considered:
1- Neuromuscular Control and Rehabilitation:
- Vision contributions to human upright stance
- Interactions between vision and proprioceptive sensory systems in human upright stance
- Deep-learning approaches for diagnosis of balance disorders
2- Biomechatronics:
- Wearable devices and sensors
- Control of Artificial Organs
- Mechatronic Prosthetics, Orthosis and Exoskeletons
3- Medical and Assistive Robotics:
- Path Planning and Control of Surgical Robots
- Design and control in Assistive Robotics
- Visual Servoing
- Polytechnique Laboratory for Assistive and Rehabilitation technologies (POLAR), Director
- TransMedTech Research Chair in Assistive and Rehabilitation Technologies, Chairholder
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Visiting researcher
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Adjunct Professor
- Technopole in Pediatric Rehabilitation, Member
- Assembly of Researchers at CHU Sainte-Justine, Montréal, Member
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering,Université de Montréal, Member
- 1701 Engineering design
- 1900 BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
- 2509 Control systems
- 2600 ROBOTICS
- 2716 Virtual reality and related simulations
- 2715 Optimization
- 2603 Computer vision
- 2604 Intelligent systems applications
Publications
Biography
Abolfazl Mohebbi obtained his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Iran, in 2009. He received a Master's degree from Concordia University (2013) and a Doctorate degree from Polytechnique Montreal (2017) both in in Mechanical Engineering with the specializations in robotics, control and mechatronics.
After holding industrial positions for almost three years, he returned to the academia as a postdoctoral researcher until 2020. As a postdoctoral fellow at Polytechnique, McGill and Harvard University, his research activities were focused on various fields of Biomedical Engineering, Neuromuscular Control, Assistive Technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Abolfazl Mohebbi is now an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Polytechnique Montréal. He also holds the Chair in Assistive and Rehabilitation Technologies, co-founded by the TransMedTech Institute (iTMT) of Polytechnique Montréal, the CHU Sainte-Justine research center and the Technopole in Pediatric Rehabilitation.
Teaching
MEC3305 - Analyse et commande des systèmes dynamiques
MEC8358 - Mécatronique II
MEC8371 - Mesure et modélisation dynamique
Education
- Postdoc (2019-2020) in Biomedical Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Postdoc (2017-2019) in Biomedical Engineering, McGill University/Polytechnique Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Doctorate (2013-2017) in Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Master’s (2010-2013) in Mechanical Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Bachelor’s (2004-2009) in Mechanical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Iran
Supervision at Polytechnique
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Master's Thesis (1)
- Brochu Dufour, O. (2021). Visual Odometry System for Drones Assisted by a Deep Neural Network [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
