Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Rajni Patel, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Distinguished University Professor & Tier-1 Canada Research Chair
rvpatel{at}uwo{dot}ca 519-661-4263 TEB 379

Professional Activities

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (2003 - present)

1. Journal editorial/advisory boards:

Technical Editor, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics; 2003 – 2006.

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics; 2003 – 2005.

Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery; 2006 – present.

Member of the Advisory Board, Journal of Intelligent and Soft Computing; 1994 - present.

Associate Editor, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers; 1990 - present.

2. Director of Engineering, Canadian Surgical Technologies & Advanced Robotics (CSTAR), a research initiative of the London Health Sciences Centre and the Lawson Health Research Institute, and affiliated with the University of Western Ontario; September 2002-present.

3. Conference, workshop, and session organization and technical program committees:

Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Taipei, Taiwan, October 8-11, 2006.

Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Hawaii, USA, October 10-12, 2005.

General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Toronto, Ontario, August 28-31, 2005.

Member of the Advisory Board of the International Conference on Intelligent Mechatronics and Automation, Niagara Falls, Ontario, August 8-11, 2005.

Co-Chair, CSTAR/OCITS Workshop on Surgical Robotics and Medical Imaging, London, Ontario, October 18, 2004.

Member of the International Program Committee for the 3rd IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Symposium on Mechatronics, Sydney, Australia, 2004.

Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ’04), Sendai, Japan, Sep. 28 – Oct. 2, 2004.

Member of the Best Student Paper Award Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, LA, April 2004.

Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Istanbul, Turkey, June 23-25, 2003.

4. Invited presentations

Invited to present a Plenary Talk on “Haptics-enabled Telerobotics for Surgery and Therapy” at the 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA 2010) held in Jinan, China, from July 7 to 9, 2010.

“Robotics in Minimally Invasive Surgery and Therapy”, Keynote Presentation at the IEEE London Section Annual General Meeting, November 20, 2008.

"Haptics in Teleoperation-based Surgical Robotic Systems”, at the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, May 31, 2006.

“Robotics and Control Issues in Minimally Invasive Surgery and Therapy”, in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, March 31, 2006.

“Robotics in Surgery and Therapy”, invited plenary presentation at the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, Niagara Falls, Ontario, July 29 – August 1, 2005.

“Robotics in Minimally Invasive Surgery”, as part of a panel on "The Expanding Boundaries of Engineering" at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Academy of Engineering; June 4, 2004.

5. Member of the American Automatic Control Council’s Selection Committee for the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, 2007-present.