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M. Ali Nasseri is an adjunct professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alberta and the founding director of the Medical Autonomy Precision Surgery (MAPS) Laboratory at the Technical University of Munich. With over 15 years of experience in medical surgical robotics, he has established himself as a pioneer in robotic eye surgery, integrating multidisciplinary fields such as mechatronics, computer vision, and medicine. His focused research program emphasizes surgical autonomy and intelligent robotic interventions, coordinating large-scale collaborative projects funded by institutions including the BMBF, BFS, and NIH. Ali has directed the largest medical robotics project currently funded by the Bavarian Research Foundation and co-founded several medical robotics startups, actively contributing to translational research that bridges laboratory innovations to clinical deployments. His recent work utilizes AI for real-time multimodal perception to implement surgical workflow autonomy, enabling robotic systems to adapt to intraoperative complexities. He has published more than 140 peer-reviewed articles and received multiple awards for his contributions to medical engineering research.
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Management