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Arash Arami is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He serves as the director of the Neuromechanics Assistive Robotics Laboratory and is cross-appointed to the Systems Design Engineering department. Dr. Arami is an active member of various research initiatives at Waterloo including Robohub and the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology. He is also affiliated with the KITE institute at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. His previous roles include serving as a Research Associate at the Human Robotics Group at Imperial College London and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Dr. Arami's research interests lie primarily in assistive robotics, human-robot interaction, and rehabilitation engineering, particularly focusing on neuromechanics and wearable systems. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from EPFL in 2014, where he investigated smart prostheses and kinematics.
University of Waterloo • Waterloo, ON
Teaching and conducting research in the field of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering.
Human Robotics Group, Imperial College London •
Focused on modeling human neuromechanics and designing collaborative controllers for exoskeletons.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) •
Research on wearable systems and signal processing applications for machine learning and human movement analysis.
Includes fields like Clinical, Cognitive, Developmental, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology.