bio

Kourosh Darvish received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from K.N. Toosi University of Technology and Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran), in 2012 and 2014, respectively. During his bachelor’s and master’s studies, he worked on dynamics, control, estimation, and system identification techniques. Later, Kourosh completed his PhD in Bioengineering & Robotics from the University of Genoa, Italy in 2019. During his PhD, he developed a hierarchical architecture for flexible human-robot collaboration for factory environments and assembly tasks. From November 2018, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence (previously named Dynamic Interaction Control) lab and collaborating on the H2020 European project AnDy. During this project till December 2020, he worked on human perception and humanoid robot teleoperation. Since January 2020, he had been collaborating on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition, which aims to create an avatar system that can transport human presence to a remote location in real-time. Since January 1st, 2021, he had started to work on the H2020 European Project SoftManBot, where he led the activities related to task learning and safety enhancement for human-robot collaboration. Moreover, from 2021 to 2022, he collaborated on the ergoCub project, aimed at enhancing the ergonomics of workers in the workplace. In this project, he developed AI algorithms for online human action recognition and motion prediction for the purpose of robot control in collaborative scenarios and online physical risk/fatigue assessments.

From June 2022, Kourosh serves as a post-doctoral researcher as a part of the Acceleration Consortium in Robot Vision and Learning (RVL) and People, AI, & Robots (PAIR) labs at the University of Toronto. He is currently working on AI solutions to accelerate the discovery of new chemicals and materials, by enabling robots to interact with scientists in the chemistry labs (in collaboration with the matter lab) and to execute experiments.