Education

• PhD in Mechanical Engineering - Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Britich Columbia, Vancouver, BC, expected 2011 
• Dissertation: “An Implantable Battery-less MEMS Device for Controlled Drug Delivery”
• M.A. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering - Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Britich Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 2005
• Concentration: Control and Manufacturing
• Dissertation: “Fault Detection and Diagnosis in a Spacecraft Attitude Determination System”
  
• B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering - Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2001 
• Concentration: Solid Mechanics
• Dissertation: “Determination and Analysis of Geometric and Dimensional Tolerances”

Research Interests

• MicroElectroMechanicals Systems (MEMS)
• Emerging Mico/Nano Technologies
• MEMS for Therapeutics (Drug Delivery)
• Biomedical Microdevices and Implants (bioMEMS)
• Novel Polymers for MEMS
• Lab on a Chip and Microfluidic Systems

Publications

• “Magnetic Poly(dimethylesiloxane) Composite Incorporated with Uniformly Dispersed Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles”,
  Joint work with L. Cheng and M. Chiao, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,  2010 20(1), pp. 15032-15038.

• “Development of a Magnetically Controlled Drug Delivery Device using MEMS- Design and Fabrication”,
  Joint work with J. Jackson, H. Burt, M. Chiao, submitted to Lab on a Chip.

• “Controlled Release of Docetaxel from a Battery-less MEMS Drug Delivery Device”,
  Joint work with J. Jackson, H. Burt, M. Chiao, in preparation to be submitted to Journal of Controlled Release.
  

• “Increased Accumulation of Paclitaxel and Doxorubicin in Prostate Cancer Cells Following Ultrasound Irradiation”,
  Joint work with J. Jackson, C. P. L. Wan, T. Siu, M. Chiao, H. Burt, submitted to Ultrasonics.

• “Fault Detection and Diagnosis in a Spacecraft Attitude Determination System”,
  Joint work with F. Sassani and C.W. de Silva, Acta Astronautica 2009, 65(5-6), pp. 710-729.
  

• “Introduction to Health Monitoring”
  Joint work with F. Sassani and C.W. de Silva, in the book Mechatronic Systems - Devices, Design, Control, Operation, and Monitoring, 1st ed., 2007,
  C.W. de Silva, Ed., Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, Ch. 23.

Conferences

• “Controlled Delivery of Docetaxel  from a MEMS Device Show Apoptosis in PC3 and HUVEC Cells”, 
  Submitted to The 16th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Beijing, China, June 5-9, 2011.

• “Increased Accumulation of Micellar Paclitaxel in Cell Lines Following Ultrasound Irradiation”, 
  Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress (PSWC), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 14–18, 2010.
  

• “A Novel Magnetically Controlled Drug Delivery Device”, 
  The 8th International Conference on the Scientific and Clinical Applications of Magnetic Carriers, Rostock, Germany, May 25-29, 2010.
  

• “A MEMS Device for Drug Delivery”,
  Symposium on MEMS/NEMS and Robotics, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, February 12-14, 2009.

• “An Efficient Algorithm for Health Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis in a Spacecraft Attitude Determination System”,
  IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Montreal, QC, October 7-10, 2007.
  

• “Fault Detection in a Spacecraft Attitude Determination System”,
  Proceedings of International Symposium on Collaborative Research in Applied Science (ISOCRIAS), Vancouver, BC, October 2005. 
  

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