
Dr. Zohaib Aftab
Associate Professor
dr.zohaib@ucp.edu.pk
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Dr. Zohaib Aftab is Associate Professor and the Director at Human-centered robotics lab National Center of Robotics and Automation (NCRA) Pakistan. He has earned his Masters and PhD degrees in engineering from France. His research interests include design of electro-mechanical systems, data science and algorithm development. He also heads the research group named “Productivity, Quality and Data Analytics” in the department. He possesses 3 patents, has won grants worth US$200,000 and has published 15 articles in reputed research journals.
Ph.D | Robotics, Biomechanics | University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France | 2012 |
M.Sc. | Robotics | Ecole Central de Nantes, France | 2009 |
B.Sc. | Mechanical Engineering | UET Lahore | 2007 |
Assistant Professor | University of Central Punjab, Lahore | 2013-Present |
Lecturer/Lab Engineer | UET Lahore | 2007-2008 |
1 | Zohaib Aftab, Ahmed Zohaib Zaidi and Faraz Shafi, User Satisfaction with Conventional Lower-Limb Orthotic Devices: a Cross-Sectional Survey in Pakistan, Asia Pacific Disability Rehabilitation Journal (Disability, CBR and Inclusive development), Accepted for November 2020 issue |
2 | Zohaib Aftab and Asad Ali, Modeling and Simulation of a lower-body wearable exoskeleton using robotics’ techniques, International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, (IJMERR, ISSN: 2278-0149), Vol 7, No. 3, pp. 313-318, 2018 |
3 | Zohaib Aftab, Thomas Robert and Pierre-Brice Wieber, Predicting Multiple Step Placements For Human Balance Recovery Tasks, Journal of Biomechanics, Elsevier (2012) 45(16), 2804-2809, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2012.08.038 (IF: 2.4, SJR: 1.23) |
4 | Zohaib Aftab, Thomas Robert and Pierre-Brice Wieber, Balance recovery prediction with multiple strategies for standing humans, PLoS ONE 11(3): e0151166. 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151166 (IF: 3.54, SJR: 1.4, h5-index: 166) |
5 | Zohaib Aftab, Thomas Robert and Pierre-Brice Wieber, Simulating the effect of Upper-body Inertia on Human Balance Recovery, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering (CMBBE), Taylor & Francis, Volume 15 (S1) 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10255842.2012.713653 (IF: 1.85) |
6 | Thomas Robert, Zohaib Aftab, Pierre-Brice Wieber, Simulation du rattrapage d’équilibre fortement perturbé (Simulating the biped balance under strong disturbances), Clinical Neurophysiology, Elsevier, Vol. 42, No. 6. 2012 (IF: 3.42, SJR: 1.58) |
7 | Romain Tisserand, Thomas Robert, Zohaib Aftab and Laurence Chèze, Un modèle de prédiction de la performance de rattrapage de l’équilibre perturbé pour la personne âgée, Neurophysiologie Clinique/ Clinical Neurophysiology, Elsevier, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2014 (IF: 3.42, SJR: 1.58) |
8 | Zohaib Aftab and Asad Ali, Modeling and Simulation of a lower-body wearable exoskeleton using robotics’ techniques, 2nd International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, Paris, France, December 11-13, 2017 |
9 | Zohaib Aftab and Asad Ali, Simulating a wearable lower-body exoskeleton device for torque and power estimation, 2017 IEEE-RAS 17th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids) Birmingham, UK, November 15-17, 2017 |
10 | Zohaib Aftab, Thomas Robert and Pierre-Brice Wieber, Ankle, hip and stepping strategies for humanoid balance recovery with a single Model Predictive Control scheme, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2012), Japan, 2012 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6651514/ |