Faculty:Faculty of Science and Engineering
School:Engineering and the Built Environment
Location: Chelmsford, Cambridge
Areas of Expertise: Mechanical Engineering
Research Supervision:Yes
Shabnam is a Senior Lecturer in Mechatronics Engineering, Simulation, artificial intelligence and virtual reality in our School of Engineering and the Built Environment.
shabnam.sadeghi-esfahlani@aru.ac.uk
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Shabnam is a Chartered Engineer, Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy, and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. She has published numerous papers in high-ranking journals across various disciplines.
She has a successful track record of extensive research income generation in mechatronics and robotics engineering; her research contributes to the development of serious games with specific artificial intelligence application, the design of algorithms to be used by robots for societal needs (healthcare, and daily assistance) and mechanical engineering design optimisation. Shabnam is a review editor on the Editorial Board of Pattern Recognition (section of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence). Her research has been funded by national and international organisations, including Innovate UK, and Knowledge Transfer Partnership UK.
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Module leader/developed the modules:
Esfahlani, S.S., Shirvani, H., Nwaubani, S., Shirvani, A. and Mebrahtu, H., 2013. Comparative study of honeycomb optimization using Kriging and radial basis function. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, 3(3), pp.031002.
Sadeghi-Esfahlani, S., Shirvani, H., Nwaubani, S. and Shirvani, A., 2011. Design attributes for geometry optimization process of thin walled honeycomb structures. ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, p.899.
Sadeghi-Esfahlani, S. and Shirvani, A., 2008. Design Certainties by using Uncertainties in Finite Element Design Optimization. Proceedings of the 1st WSEAS International Conference on VISUALIZATION, IMAGING and SIMULATION (VIS'08). Published by WSEAS Press, p.15.
Esfahlani, S.S., Muresan, B., Sanaei, A. and Wilson, G., 2018. Validity of the Kinect and Myo armband in a serious game for assessing upper limb movement. Entertainment Computing, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2018.05.003.
Esfahlani, S.S., Thompson, T., Parsa, A.D., Brown, I. and Cirstea, S., 2018. ReHabgame: A non-immersive virtual reality rehabilitation system with applications in neuroscience. Heliyon, 4(2), p.e00526, available on https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
Muresan, B., Esfahlani, S.S., 2018. Autonomous Flight and Real-Time Tracking of Nano Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/702842/.
Peer-reviewed publications
Esfahlani, S.S., 2021. Ballistic Performance of Polycarbonate and Polymethyl methacrylate Under Normal and Inclined Dynamic Impacts. Heliyon, 7(4), e06856, Elsevier. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06856.
Brown, P., Tan, A.C., El-Esawi, M.A., Liehr, T., Blanck, O., Gladue, D.P., Almeida, G.M., Cernava, T., Sorzano, C.O., Yeung, A.W. and Engel, M.S., Esfahlani, S.S., 2019. Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search. Database, 2019.
Butt, J., Mohaghegh, V., Esfahlani, S.S, and Shirvani, H. (2020), 3 Subtractive and Additive Manufacturing Applied to Drilling Systems. Advances in Terrestrial Drilling. CRC Press.
Butt, J., Esfahlani, S.S, Oxford, P., Ghorabian, M., Shirvani, H, (2020), Hybrid Manufacturing and Mechanical Characterisation of Cu/PLA Composites, Arabian Journal for Science & Engineering.
Esfahlani, S.S., Butt, J., Shirvani, H. and Mirzaee, I., (2019). The Fusion of Artificial Intelligence in Neuro-Rehabilitation Video Games. Journal of IEEE ACCESS, 7, pp. 102617-102627. DOI 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2926118.
Esfahlani, S.S., (2019), Mixed Reality and Remote Sensing Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Fire and Smoke Detection. Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 15, pp42-49; DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jii.2019.04.006.
Hewavidana, Y.,, S.S, Shirvani, H, (2019), Hybrid Manufacturing and Experimental Testing of Glass Fiber Enhanced Thermoplastic Composites, Esfahlani, V., Mohaghegh. Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, (ISSN 2504-4494), 3, 96; DOI 10.3390/jmmp3040096.
Mul, C., Cardini, F., Stagg, S., D., Esfahlani, S. S., Kiourtsoglou, D., Cardellicchio, P., Aspell, J. (2019), Altered Bodily Self-consciousness and Peripersonal Space in Autism, National Autistic Society, DOI 10.1177/1362361319838950, p.1-13.
Kordzadeh, A., and Esfahlani>, S.S., (2019), Artificial Intelligence in the Prediction of Functional Maturation of Radiocephalic Arteriovenous Fistula. Journal of Vascular Access, Ann Vasc Dis. 2019 Mar 25; 12(1): 44–49. DOI 10.3400/avd.oa.18-00129.
Esfahlani, S. S., Cirstea, S., Sanaei, A. and Wilson, G., 2017. An adaptive self-organizing fuzzy logic controller in a serious game for motor impairment rehabilitation. The 26th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, 19-21 June 2017, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, p.1311-1318, http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/701775/.
Esfahlani, S. S. and Wilson, G., 2017. Development of Rehabilitation System (RehabGame) through Monte-Carlo Tree Search Algorithm using Kinect and Myo Sensor Interface. SAI, computing conference 2017, London, UK, http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/701777/.
Constantinou, G., Wilson, G. Esfahlani, S. S., and Cirstea, M. N., 2017. An Effective Approach to the Use of 3D Scanning Technology which Shortens the Development Time of 3D Models. International Conference on Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (OPTIM) and 2017 Intl Aegean Conference on Electrical Machines and Power Electronics (ACEMP), http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/701854/.
Esfahlani, S. S., and Sanaei, A., 2017. Facial Expression and emotion Recognition through Serious game and Kinect device. 7th Annual Research and Scholarship Conference, 10 May 2017, http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/701774/.
Esfahlani, S. S. and Thompson, T., 2016. Intelligent Physiotherapy Through Procedural Content Generation. 12th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, p27-30, http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/701061/.