S. Farokh Atashzar is an Assistant Professor of Electrical, Computer, Mechanical, and Aerospace Engineering at New York University (NYU). He is also affiliated with NYU WIRELESS, NYU CUSP and NYU BME. Before NYU, he was a senior postdoctoral scientist at Imperial College London’s Department of Bioengineering, funded by Canada’s Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). From 2017 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics (CSTAR) Center. Atashzar has received numerous awards, including two 2023 MathWorks Research Awards, an NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship in 2018, ranking among Canada’s top five candidates in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also secured the Ontario Graduate Scholarship in 2013 and NSERC fellowship in Computer Assisted Medical Intervention in 20212. At NYU, he heads the Medical Robotics and Interactive Intelligent Technologies (MERIIT) Laboratory, which spans 1500 sq. ft. The lab primarily focuses on interactive Neuro-Rehabilitation Robotics and neural interfaces. Atashzar has held editorial roles in prestigious journals like IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (earning recognition from IEEE RAS in 2021 as a distinguished editor for RAL). His research has been funded by NSF, NIH, Mathworks, and the Intuitive Foundation. Collaborating closely with NYU School of Medicine and the US FDA, Atashzar’s work is rooted in translational research. To date, the MERIIT Lab has graduated two postdoctoral researchers and currently hosts nine PhD students.
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