Amir Hooshiar

Advisor at WWRH and Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Amir Hooshiar is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Surgery of McGill University.
His doctoral research was on haptics-enabled robot-assisted surgical systems for cardiovascular
intervention. He was an NSERC Vanier Scholar during his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at
Concordia University and received the 2018 NSERC Gilles-Brassard Doctoral Prize for
Interdisciplinary Research. His research at McGill is on the development of next-gen (semi-
)autonomous surgical robots for endoscopic, endoluminal, and percutaneous procedures.