Biography

I am a PhD researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia, where I work in the Dependable Systems and Analytics (DSA) group under the supervision of Homa Alemzadeh. My research is centered on dependable robotic surgery: I study how to make robot-assisted and teleoperated surgical systems safer, more reliable, and more intelligent through multimodal sensing, machine learning, and system-level safety engineering.

More specifically, I work on real-time surgical activity understanding, platform-agnostic multimodal data collection, and fault-tolerant telesurgery. I am interested in building methods that can recognize and predict fine-grained surgical actions, reason about surgical context from heterogeneous data streams, and maintain safe operation when communication quality degrades or fails altogether.

Before joining UVA, I received my B.Sc. in Electrical and Control Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, where I worked on tele-rehabilitation robotic systems. That experience shaped my long-term interest in medical cyber-physical systems and in developing trustworthy robotics and AI tools that can support clinicians in high-stakes environments.

Research Interests

• Dependable robotic surgery and telesurgery
• Multimodal surgical AI and activity understanding
• Medical cyber-physical systems safety and resilience
• Learning-enabled autonomy for healthcare robotics