Education

• 2013 - 2018: PhD. in Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
• 2011 - 2013: MSc. in Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
• 2008 - 2011: MSc. in Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Tech. (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran
• 2004 - 2008: BSc. in Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Tech. (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran

Research Interests

• Medical Robotics
• Robotics & Control
• Telerobotics

Projects
Current:

• Robot-Assisted Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumors
• Tendon-Driven Surgical Wrists for Robotic Surgery

Past:

• Stability and Transparency Analysis of Discrete-Time Time-Delayed Bilateral Teleoperation
• AFM-Based Nano-telemanipulation Design
• Stick-Slip Piezo-Actuator Modeling & Control Design
• Stable Multi-User Interaction with Cooperative Haptic Virtual Environments

Publications

• Sarli, N., "Design, Modeling & Control of Continuum Robots & Dexterous Wrists with Applications to Transurethral Bladder Cancer Resection.", PhD dissertation, Vanderbilt University, Sep 2018.
• Sarli, N., Del Giudice, G., De, S., Dietrich, M. S., Herrell, S. D. and Simaan, N., "TURBot: a System for Robot-Assisted Transurethral Bladder Tumor Resection", IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Submitted.
• Sarli, N., Noh, S. and Simaan, N., "Modeling and Performance Characterization of an Open-ended Wire-Driven Wrist Architecture for Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgery", Mechanism and Machine Theory, Submitted.
• Sarli, N., Del Giudice, G., De, S., Dietrich, Mary S., Herrell, S. D. & Simaan, N. (2018). "Preliminary Porcine in vivo Evaluation of a Telerobotic System for Transurethral Bladder Tumor Resection & Surveillance". Journal of Endourology, vol. 32, no. 6, June 2018.
• Sarli, N., Simaan, N. (2017). Minimal Visual Occlusion Redundancy Resolution of Continuum Robots in Confined Spaces . International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2017).
• Sarli, N., Marien, T., Mitchell, C. R., Giudice, G. D., Dietrich, M. S., Herrell, S. D. et al. (2016). Kinematic and Experimental Investigation of Manual Resection Tools for Transurethral Bladder Tumor Resection. The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery.
• Sarli, N., Giudice, G. D., Herrell, D. S. & Simaan, N. (2016). A Resectoscope for Robot-Assisted Transurethral Surgery. ASME Journal of Medical Devices 2(10), 020911.
• Sarli, N., Giudice, G. D., Herrell, D. S. & Simaan, N (2016). A Resectoscope for Robot-Assisted Transurethral Surgery. In 2016 Design of Medical Devices Conference(DMD'2016). Minneapolis, MN, USA.
• Giudice, G. D., Sarli, N., Herrell, S. D. & Simaan, N (2016). Design Considerations for Continuum Robot Actuation Units Enabling Dexterous Transurethral Bladder Cancer Resection. In International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (ASME IDETC/CIE2016). Charlotte,NC,USA.
• Sarli, N., Marien, T., Herrell, S. D. & Simaan, N (2015). Characterization of resection dexterity in transurethral resection of bladder tumor: A kinematic study. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2015), pages 5324 - 5329.
• Marien, T., Sarli, N., Mitchell, C., Del Giudice, G., Simaan, N. & Herrell, S. D (2015). Surgeon Resection Performance DuringTransurethral Resection of Bladder Tumor (TURBT): A Quantified Study. In 30th annual meeting of Engineering and Urology Society.
• N., Sarli, S., M., Rezaei, S., S., Ghidary, M., Zareinejad, H., A., Talebi, M. Dehghan, On Stability and Transparency of a Time-Discretized Time-Delayed Impedance- Controlled Force-Reflecting Teleoperation. (IFAC2011)  (pdf)
• N., Sarli, I., Kardan, S., Shiri, Ghidary, K., Baghestan, Robust H_Infinity and Mu-Synthesis Controller Design for an Underwater Unmanned Vehicle. Proc. 18th Annual International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Iran (ISME2010)
• S., Samadzade, M., H., Korayem, N., Sarli, M., Zareinejad, Stability in a Neural Network-Based Nano-telemanipulation through Adaptive Tuning of the Haptic Interface Dissipation. (Digest Journal of Nanomaterials & Biostructures)
• S., Samadzade, M., Habibnejad, Korayem, N., Sarli, A Novel Approach for the Design of a 1-DOF Nano-Telemanipulation System Involving a Virtual Slave and Environment Based on Passivity and Coupled Stability Theory. Proc. ASME 2010 Int. Mechanical Engineering Cong. & Expo. (IMECE2010)
• S., Samadzade, M., Habibnejad, Korayem, N., Sarli, AFM-Based Nano-Telemanipulation for Indenting on a Human Chromosome Using Sliding-Mode Impedance-Based Controller for the Slave. Proc. 17th Int. Conference on Biomedical Engineering, (ICBME2010)
• R. Jaberzadeh Ansari, M. Zareinejad, S.M. Rezaei, K. Baghestan, N. Sarli, Stable multi-user interaction with cooperative haptic virtual environments by a modification of passive set-position modulation. (IET Control Theory & Applications)

Awards

• Northeastern University Excellence Fellowship
• Best Paper Award at 33th Annual meeting of Engineering and Urology Society, San Francisco, USA