Nima Ziraknejad

PhD and Co-Founder of Health and Safety Startup

British Columbia

Research Expertise

Engineering

Robotics

Control

Machine vision

Electric field imaging

Molecular Biology

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Computer Networks and Communications

Aerospace Engineering

Automotive Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Geology

Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

Civil and Structural Engineering

Nature and Landscape Conservation

Ecology

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Library and Information Sciences

Computer Science Applications

Process Chemistry and Technology

Energy Engineering and Power Technology

Fuel Technology

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

Bioengineering

About

Dr. Nima Ziraknejad is a Co-Founder and CEO at NZ Technologies Inc., a machine vision and robotics company. He is also the Regional Lead for Western Canada at Auto21, a Canadian national research and development network. Dr. Ziraknejad obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2014, where his research focused on machine vision and robotics. He also holds a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia. Prior to his current roles, Dr. Ziraknejad worked as a Product Manager at Weir Motion Metrics, where he was responsible for managing the development and commercialization of new products.

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Publications

Structural and molecular perspectives of SARS-CoV-2

Methods

2021

Vehicle Occupant Head Position Quantification Using an Array of Capacitive Proximity Sensors

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

The effect of Time-of-Flight camera integration time on vehicle driver head pose tracking accuracy

2012 IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES 2012)

2012

Open Pit Mining

Rock Mechanics: Meeting Society's Challenges and Demands

2007

Autonomous Stereo Camera Parameter Estimation for Outdoor Visual Servoing

2007 IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing

2007

Risk Analysis and Prediction of Floor Failure Mechanisms at Longwall Face in Parvadeh-I Coal Mine using Rock Engineering System (RES)

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

2015

Blacoh Fluid Control receives US patent

World Pumps

2019

Quantifying Occupant Head to Head Restraint Relative Position for use in Injury Mitigation in Rear End Impacts

SAE Technical Paper Series

2011

Automatic region of interest extraction in food baking images

2014 IEEE China Summit & International Conference on Signal and Information Processing (ChinaSIP)

2014

Currency Detection App for Blind People Using MIT App Inventor

2022 International Conference on Power, Energy, Control and Transmission Systems (ICPECTS)

2022

Measuring generative appropriability: Experiments with US semiconductor patents

World Patent Information

2022

Study of soil moisture distribution under different mulching methods

Ecology, Environment and Conservation

2022

Medically Relevant Mycoplasmas and Ureaplasmas☆

Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences

2016

Education

University of British Columbia

PhD, Electrical Engineering - Machine Vision and Robotics / 2014

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

University of British Columbia

MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering / 2007

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Experience

NZ Technologies Inc.

Co-Founder & CEO / 2014 — Present

NZ Technologies Inc. (NZTech) is a medical technology innovation and electro-mechanical device production firm with a mission to improve the quality of care and patient outcomes. Focused on revolutionizing modern Human Machine Interfaces (HMI), our systems engineering specialties cover 3D machine vision and sensing, embedded electronics design and assembly, robotics control and manufacturing, and machine learning algorithms. NZTech is proud to have invented TIPSO™, an award-winning product that enables surgeons to touchlessly and ergonomically interact with radiology images and operating room equipment during their surgical operations. As CEO, I am responsible for leadership and operations at NZTech, which includes securing and managing the financing, and making decisions on all strategic activities. My role also extends to cultivating relationships in business, technological and financial spheres to grow business development and productivity. Creating transformative change in the healthcare sector is my passion. I am constantly exploring new horizons and connecting the technologies we have invented to more practical applications in the medical field. My passion and drive to develop new technologies – achieved by understanding users' unmet needs – ensures that we attract highly-skilled experts to our team who have an important contribution to make and who know that something tangible will result from our collaborative efforts.

Auto21

Regional Lead - Western Canada / 2012 — 2014

AUTO21 brings together nearly 200 top Canadian researchers at 46 universities and partners them with 120 industry and government partners. An annual research budget of approximately $11 million in federal and industry support fund projects within six key research themes: Health, Safety and Injury Prevention Societal Issues and the Future Automobile Materials and Manufacturing Powertrains, Fuels and Emissions Design Processes Intelligent Systems and Sensors

Weir Motion Metrics

Product Manager / 2002 — 2009

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