Ali Talasaz

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ABOUT ALI TALASAZ

Experienced Senior Principal Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the medical device industry. Skilled in Medical Devices, Control Systems Design, Haptics, Biomedical Engineering, and Robotics:• 20+ years’ hands-on experience in control engineering design, rapid-prototype development, and R&D leadership• In-depth knowledge/experience with implementing classical and modern control techniques for complex electromechanical systems and robot manipulators• Solid knowledge in haptics particularly implemented for surgical robotics including force feedback, tactile feedback and virtual fixture• Excellent collaboration with cross functional engineering teams for product development and design improvement • Passion for deep diving on technical details and providing in-depth analysis on complex and challenging problems during the entire design life cycle• Technical lead on control design and implementation in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery including: Design and development of arm control algorithms for the next generation/existing surgical robots Implement low-level adaptive control architectures for surgical robot manipulators under variant load Work on low-level and high-level controller tuning and filter tuning to improve arm control performance Develop robot kinematic calibration algorithm with proof of concept in simulation and implementation, and develop test methods for static and dynamic accuracy evaluation under ISO 9283 and ISO/TR 13309 Improve haptics capability and system stability margin by dynamically calibrate robot manipulators with system identification and friction compensation Develop full dynamic model-based simulation script for robot manipulators in Matlab for proof of concept of new control algorithms Write MEX wrapper to interface with several devices (with C++ based APIs), and Matlab interface for Python-based applications and design graphical user interface for interactive testing