Hossein Rouhani is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alberta, and a Research Affiliate at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital (Edmonton) since 2015. He is also the founder and director of Neuromuscular Control & Biomechanical Laboratory (www.ncbl.ualberta.ca). He received an MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, and a PhD degree in Biotechnology and Bioengineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Dr. Rouhani was then a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Dr. Rouhani’s fields of research are (1) in-field health monitoring using innovative wearable technologies, (2) rehabilitative and assistive technology development, (3) biomedical instrumentation design, and (4) clinical outcome evaluation. Within his translational research program, Dr. Rouhani has had several collaborative research projects with university hospitals, such as Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic, Institut de réadaptation Gingras-Lindsay-de-Montréal, and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. He has implemented his developed wearable technologies in clinical research at these hospitals. Dr. Rouhani is a recipient of two postdoctoral fellowship awards from the Swiss National Science Foundation. He is also an author of 41 journal papers and 54 conference publications, a guest editor of Sensors, and an associate editor of IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. Dr. Rouhani was a co-chair of Alberta Biomedical Engineering Conference (2017-2919) and is the congress chair of 2021 International Congress of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering in Edmonton.

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