Mojtaba Shahab
Cognitive & Social Robotics
PhD Candidate of Mechanical Engineering
Social and Cognitive Robotics Laboratory, Center of Excellence in Design, Robotics, and Automation (CEDRA),
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Email : m.shahab@mech.sharif.edu
m.shahab69@gmail.com
Tel: 021-66165694
Educational Background
- Ph.D. (2016 - Now ) Mechanical Engineering, Cognitive Robotics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. GPA of Courses: 18.13/20
- M.Sc. (2012 - 2014) Biomedical Engineering, Biomechanics, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. GPA of Courses: 18.60/20
- B.Sc. (2008 - 2012) Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
- Diploma. (2008) Math & Physics, ShahidBeheshti High School, Birjand, Iran.
Teaching Assistant experience
- Robatics
- Dynamics
- Advanced Dynamics
Research Interests
- Virtual Reality and Cognitive Rehabilitation
- Machine Learning and pattern recognition
- Human Robot Interaction (HRI), Social Robotics (SR)
- Dynamic Systems and Control
- Mechatronics
- Biomechanics
Honors and Awards
Winner of the Best Robot Design and got the 1st Prize in Software Category for “Virtual Social Toys: A Novel Concept to Bring Inanimate Dolls to Life”, ICSR2018, Qingdao City, China, Nov. 2018 (The video clip is available in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZfj9biCHDA ).
Directly admitted to the Biomedical. Eng. M.Sc. Program at Amirkabir University of Technology, based on Excellent B.Sc. Records, 2012
Ranked 360th among about 300000 participants in the National Entrance Exam for B.Sc. degree in Science and Engineering, 2008.
Semifinalist in Iran National Olympiads: Mathematics and chemistry, 2005.
Publications
Journal Papers:
Taheri, A., Shariati, A., Heidari, R., Shahab, M., Alemi, M. & Meghdari, A. (2021). Impacts of using a social robot to teach music to children with low-functioning autism. Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 12(1), 256-275. https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2021-0018
Shahab, M., Taheri, A., Mokhtari, M. et al. Utilizing social virtual reality robot (V2R) for music education to children with high-functioning autism. Educ Inf Technol (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-020-10392-0
Shahab, M., M. Hajihosseiali, and N. Fatouraee. “Comparing Lumbar Spinal Muscles Activity in Scoliotic and Healthy Subjects Using Finite Element Method”. Majlesi Journal of Mechatronic Systems, Vol. 6, no. 1, June 2017,
Shahab, M., B. Seyfi, and N. Fatouraee. "A Novel Approach for Automatic Calculation of Required Parameters in Spine Surgery using CT Images Row Data." Iranian Journal of Biomedical Engineering 9 (2015): 1-15.
Conference Papers:
M. Shahab, M. Raisi, M. Hejrati, A. R. Taheri and A. Meghdari, "Virtual Reality Robot for Rehabilitation of Children with Cerebral Palsy (CP)," 2019 7th International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM), 2019, pp. 63-68, doi: 10.1109/ICRoM48714.2019.9071878.
Shariati A., Shahab M., Meghdari A., Amoozandeh Nobaveh A., Rafatnejad R., Mozafari B. (2018) Virtual Reality Social Robot Platform: A Case Study on Arash Social Robot. In: Ge S. et al. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11357. Springer, Cham.
Taheri A., Shahab M., Meghdari A., Alemi M., Amoozandeh Nobaveh A., Rokhi Z., Ghorbandaei Pour A. (2018) Virtual Social Toys: A Novel Concept to Bring Inanimate Dolls to Life. In: Ge S. et al. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11357. Springer, Cham.
Shahab M., et al.: Social Virtual reality robot (V2R): a novel concept for education and rehabilitation of children with autism. In: 5th IEEE RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM), pp. 82–87. IEEE, October 2017
Shahab M., Hajihosseinali M., Faturaee N, Biomechanical modeling of the lumbar spine stability in healthy and scoliotic subjects using finite element method, The Bi-Annual International Conference on Experimental Solid Mechanics and Dynamics (X-Mech-2014)
Shahab M., Faturaee N., Seyfi B., Sedighi A., Hosseini A., Computing Lumbar spinal curvature from tomographic images using clustering methods, The 21th Conference of biomedical Engineering, Tehran, AmirKabir Univercity, 2015.
Membership
- Reviewer: The 6th RSI/IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM2018), Tehran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, October, 2018.
- Reviewer: The 9th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR2017), Japan, November, 2017.
- Reviewer: The 5th RSI/IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM2017), Amirkabir University, Tehran, Iran, October, 2017.