Dr. Zohaib Aftab

Dr. Zohaib Aftab

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
1Zohaib 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
2Zohaib 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
3Zohaib 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)
4Zohaib 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)
5Zohaib 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)
6Thomas 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)
7Romain 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)
8Zohaib 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
9Zohaib 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
10Zohaib 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/

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