Soltani, Iman

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Journal Publications

  1. M-Mahdi Naddaf-Sh, Andrew Lee, Kin Yen, Eemon Amini, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Low-Cost Infrared Vision Systems for Improved Safety of Emergency Vehicle Operations Under Low-Visibility Conditions, IEEE Access, Accepted, 2025.
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11180914
  2. Rongfei Li, Francis F Assadian, Iman Soltani Bozchalooi, Design and simulation of vehicle motion tracking system using a Youla controller output observation system, Measurement and Control, 2025.
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00202940251346112
  3. Dinesh Kumar, Amin Ghorbanpour, Kin Yen, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Design and Implementation of a Dual Uncrewed Surface Vessel Platform for Bathymetry Research under High-flow Conditions, IEEE Access, Vol 13, 106634-106651, 2025
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11037445
  4. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Johnaton Schofield, Mehran Madani, Daniel Kish, Parisa Emami-Naeini, User-Centered Insights into Assistive Navigation Technologies for Individuals with Visual Impairment, Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness (Accepted), 2025.
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06379
  5. Dechen Gao, Shuangyu Cai, Hanchu Zhou, Hang Wang, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Junshan Zhang, CarDreamer: Open-Source Learning Platform for World Model Based Autonomous Driving, IEEE Journal of Internet of Things, 12(3), 2866-2875, 2025.
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10714437
  6. Ehsan Kazemi, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Assessing the Impact of Driver Compliance on Traffic Flow and Safety in Work Zones Amid Varied Mixed Autonomy Scenarios, Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Vol. 27, 2024.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198224001994
  7. A. Ghafourian, Z. CuiZhu, D. Shi, I. Chuang, F. Charette, R. Sachdeva, and I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Hierarchical end-to-end autonomous navigation through few-shot waypoint detection, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 9(4), 3211-3218, 2024.
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10433735
  8. A. Nisanova, BA; A. Yavary, J. Deaner, F. S. Ali, P. Gogte, R. Kaplan, K. C. Chen, E. Nudleman, D. Grewal, M. Gupta, J. Wolfe, M. Klufas, G. Yiu, P. Emami-Naeini (co-corresponding author), I. Soltani Bozchalooi (co-corresponding author), Performance of automated machine learning in predicting outcomes of pneumatic retinopexy, Ophthalmology Science,4(5), 2024.
    https://www.ophthalmologyscience.org/article/S2666-9145(24)00006-X/fulltext
  9. A. Ghafourian, H. Shui, D. Upadhyay, R. Gupta, D. Filev, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Targeted collapse regularized autoencoder for anomaly detection: black hole at the center, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (early access), 2024.
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10720395
  10. D. Shi, A. Rahimpour, A. Ghafourian, M.Naddaf, T. Lasky, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Deep Bayesian-Assisted Keypoint Detection for Pose Estimation in Assembly Automation, Sensors, 23(13), 2023
    https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/13/6107
  11. Z. Yang, T. Zhang, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, E. Darve, Memory Augmented Generative Adversarial Networks for Anomaly Detection, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 33(6) – 2324-2334, 2022.
    https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9664442
  12. I. Rangelow, T. Ivanov, A. Ahmad, M. Kaestner, C. Lenk, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, F. Xia, K. Youcef-Toumi, M. Holz, A.Reum, Active scanning probes: A versatile toolkit for fast imaging and emerging nanofabrication, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, 35 (2017)
    https://pubs.aip.org/avs/jvb/article/35/6/06G101/591631/Review-Article-Active-scanning-probes-A-versatile
  13. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, A. C. Houck, J. AlGhamdi, and K. Youcef-Toumi, Design and control of a multi-actuated atomic force microscope for high-Speed, large-range imaging, Ultramicroscopy, 160 (2016) 213-224. Featured in MIT-NEWS, Boston Globe, Advanced Materials.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304399115300528
  14. A. Schuh, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, I. W Rangelow and K. Youcef-Toumi, Multi-eigenmode control for high material contrast in bimodal and higher harmonic atomic force microscopy, Nanotechnology, 26 (2015) 235706.
  15. H. T. Nia, L. Han, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, P. Roughley, K. Y. Toumi, A. J. Grodzinsky and C. Ortiz, Aggrecan nanoscale solid–fluid interactions are a primary determinant of cartilage dynamic mechanical properties, ACS NANO, 9 (3) (2015).
  16. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, and K. Youcef-Toumi, Multi-Actuation and PI control: a Simple Recipe for High-Speed and Large-Range Atomic Force Microscopy, Ultramicroscopy, 146 (2014), 117-124.
  17. H. T. Nia, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Y. Li, L. Han, H. Hung, E. Frank, K. Youcef-Toumi, C. Ortiz, A. Grodzinsky, High-bandwidth AFM-based rheology reveals that cartilage is most sensitive to high loading rates at early stages of impairment, Biophysical journal, 104 (2013) 1529-1537. Featured in MIT-News and ScienceDaily.
  18. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, K. Youcef-Toumi, D. J. Burns and G. Fantner, Compensator design for improved counterbalancing in high speed atomic force microscopy, American Inst. of Physics – Review of Scientific Instruments, 82 (2011).
  19. I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, In-line identification of oil debris signals: an adaptive subband filtering approach, Measurement Science and Technology, 21 (2010) 015104.
  20. I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, Teager Energy Operator for multi-modulation extraction and its application for gearbox fault detection, Smart Materials and Structures, 19 (2010) 075008.
  21. M. Liang and I. Soltani Bozchalooi, An energy operator approach to joint application of amplitude and frequency-demodulations for bearing fault detection, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 24 (2010) 1473-1494.
  22. I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, Parameter-free bearing fault detection based on maximum likelihood estimation and differentiation, Measurement Science and Technology, 20 (2009) 065102.
  23. I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, A joint resonance frequency estimation and in-band noise reduction method for enhancing the detectability of bearing fault signals, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 22 (4), (2008) 915-933. Ranked among the Top 25 Hottest Articles of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.
  24. I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, A Smoothness Index guided approach to wavelet parameter selection in signal de-noising and fault detection, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 308(1-2) (2007) 246-267.
  25. A. Ghaffari, H. Abdollahi, M.R.Khoshayand, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, A.Dadgar and M.Rafiee-Tehrani, Performance Comparison of Neural Network Training Algorithms in Modeling of Bimodal Drug Delivery, International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 327(1-2), 126-138, 2006.

Under Revision

  1. A. Ghafourian, A. Lee, D. Gao, T. Beer, K. Yen, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Automating Infrastructure Surveying: A Framework for Geometric Measurements and Compliance Assessment Using Point Cloud Data, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (Under revision), 2025.

Under Review

  1. Al Arsh Basheer, Justin Chang, Yuyang Chen, David Kim, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Krysalis Hand: A Lightweight, High-Payload, 18-DoF Anthropomorphic End-Effector for Robotic Learning and Dexterous Manipulation, Under Review, 2025
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12967
  2. Ehsan Kazemi, Dechen Gao, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, MarineFormer: A Spatio-Temporal Attention Model for USV Navigation in Dynamic Marine Environments, under review, 2025.
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13973

Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications

  1. Amin Ghafourian, Mohammad Mehdi Johari Moghadam, Fateme Montazeri, Parisa Emami-Naeini, I. Soltani Bochalooi, OCT-based Detection of Ocular Inflammation, The International Ocular Inflammation Society (IOIS) Conference, Rio de Jeneiro, Brazil (Invited talk, panelist)
  2. Parisa Emami-Naeini, Amin Ghafourian, Mohammad Mehdi Johari Moghadam, Fateme Montazeri, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Predicting Retinal Inflammation in Uveitis using OCT-Based Machine Learning, ARVO Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 66(8), 2025.
    https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2805754
  3. Ian Chuang, Andrew Lee, Dechen Gao, Mahdi Naddaf, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Active Vision Might Be All You Need: Exploring Active Vision in Bimanual Robotic Manipulation, Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotic and Automation (ICRA), 2025.
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17435
  4. Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Ling-Yuan Chen, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, InterACT: Inter-dependency Aware Action Chunking with Hierarchical Attention Transformers for Bimanual Manipulation, Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024.
    https://openreview.net/forum?id=lKGRPJFPCM
  5. Amin Ghafourian, Zhongying CuiZhu, Debo Shi, Ian Chuang, Francois Charette, Rithik Sachdeva, and I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Hierarchical end-to-end autonomous navigation through few-shot waypoint detection, Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving Symposium, Dec 2023.
  6. Z. Yang, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, E. Darve, Anomaly Detection with Domain Adaptation, Visual Anomaly and Novelty Detection (VAND workshop) Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.
  7. Z. CuiZhu, A. Ghafourian, F. Charette, D. Shi, M. Cui, A. Krishnamachar, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, One shot learning of visual path navigation for autonomous vehicles (ML4AV workshop), NeurIPS, 2022.
  8. Rongfei Li, F. Assadian, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Design and Implementation of Vehicle Tracking System Using a Youla Controller Output Observer, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2020.
  9. Z. Yang, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, E. Darve, Generative adversarial networks with anomaly augmentation, 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019
  10. F. Xia, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, K. Youcef-Toumi, Induced vibration contact detection for minimizing cantilever tip-sample interaction forces in jumping mode atomic force microscopy, American Control Conference, 2017.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7963591
  11. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, A. C. Houck and K. Youcef-Toumi, A study on the effectiveness of PI control for multi-actuated atomic force microscopy, American Control Conference, 2015. Invited Paper
  12. A. Schuh, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, I. W. Rangelow, K. Youcef-Toumi, Estimator based multi-eigenmode control of cantilevers in multifrequency atomic force microscopy, American Control Conference, 2015.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7171011
  13. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, K. Youcef-Toumi, Control design for division and compensation with application to high-speed/large-range nano-positioning, American Control Conference, Portland, Oregan, 2014. Invited Paper. Best presentation award in precision mechatronics.
  14. H. T. Nia, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Y. Li, E. Frank, K. Youcef-Toumi, A. Grodzinsky and C. Ortiz, The effect of GAG depletion on cartilage nanoscale hydraulic permeability, Transactions of the 58th Annual Orthopaedic Research Society, San Francisco, CA, 2012.
  15. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, K. Youcef-Toumi, D. J. Burns and G. E. Fantner, A vibration suppression approach to high-speed atomic force microscopy, American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2012.
  16. H. TavakoliNia, L. Han, Y. Li, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, H. Hung, E. Frank, K. Youcef-Toumi, A. Grodzinsky, and C. Ortiz, Poro/Viscoelasticity of cartilage at the nanoscale, 2011, 4th International Conference on the Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues, Hawaii, USA, 11-15 Dec, 2011.
  17. I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, Frequency demodulation for detecting mechanical faults with impulsive vibration signatures, IEEE Control and Decision Conference (CCDC), Mianyang, China, May 23-25, 2011.
  18. I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, Oil debris signal analysis based on empirical mode decomposition for machinery condition monitoring, American Control Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, June 10-12, 2009.
  19. I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, Vibration and electrical interference removal for improved bearing fault diagnosis, proceedings of the 11th Mechatronics Forum Biennial International Conference (Mechatronics 2008), Limerick, Ireland, June 23-25, 2008.
  20. I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, Enhancement of the signals collected by oil debris sensors, American Control Conference, Seattle, June 11-13, 2008.
  21. I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, Identification of high SNR frequency band for bearing fault signature enhancement, proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP2007), Xiamen, China, 4-6 Dec, 2007.
  22. I. Soltani Bozchalooi and M. Liang, A combined spectral subtraction and wavelet de-noising method for bearing fault detection, American Control Conference, New York July 11-13, 2007.

Under review

  1. Ian Chuang, Andrew Lee, Dechen Gao, Jinyu Zou, Iman Soltani, Look, Focus, Act: Efficient and Robust Robot Learning via Human Gaze and Foveated Vision Transformers, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026.
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15833
  2. Dechen Gao, Boqi Zhao, Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Hanchu Zhou, Hang Wang, Zhe Zhao, Junshan Zhang, Iman Soltani, VITA: Vision-to-Action Flow Matching Policy, The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13231
  3. Dechen Gao, Hang Wang, Hanchu Zhou, Nejib Ammar, Shatadal Mishra, Ahmadreza Moradipari, Iman Soltani, Junshan Zhang, IN-RIL: Interleaved Reinforcement and Imitation Learning for Policy Fine-Tuning, The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.
    https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10442
  4. Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Dechen Gao, Kai Fukazawa, Iman Soltani, Gaze on the Prize: Shaping Visual Attention with Return-Guided Contrastive Learning, The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.
  5. Kai Fukazawa, Kunal Mundada, Iman Soltani, RAMAC: Multimodal Risk-Aware Offline Reinforcement Learning and the Role of Behavior Regularization, The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.
    https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.02695

Patents

  1. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Mahdi Naddaf-Shargh, A Multimodal Distributed Sensing Device, US Patent Pending, filed June 2025.
  2. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, A. Basheer, An end effector having multiple fingers for robotic systems, US Patent Pending, filed April 2025.  
  3. Z. Yang, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, E. F. Darve, Anomaly augmented generative adversarial networks, granted US 12,165,067 B2, 2024
  4. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, P. Emami-Naeini, J. Schofield, M. Madani, “Tactile-enhanced display interface”. US Patent Pending, filed April 2023. 
  5. I. Soltani Bozchalooi and P. Emami-Naeini, “A head mounted device including stereoscopic display and optical imaging and/or sensing modalities”. US and WIPO Patent pending, US20240237897A1, 2021.
  6. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, “PZT, Multi-wavelength structured light camera system for precision positioning and quality control”, US Patent pending US20240127568A1, 2021.
  7. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, A. Rahimpour, D. Upadhyay, Systems and methods for image-based component detection, US Patent granted ,US-11423571-B2, 2022
  8. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, F. Charette, D. P. Filev, R. Burke, D. Upadhyay, Vehicle neural network enhancement, US Patent granted, US-11829131-B2, 2023
  9. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, L. Scaria, F. Assadian, Adaptive Sensor Fusion, US patent granted No. 11,069,161 2021
  10. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Learning systems and methods, US patent granted No. 11,126,190B2,  09/21/2021
  11. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, F. Assadian, High-throughput automated annotation of visual data for training neural networks used for landmark detection, USPTO patent granted, No. 10,929,714, 02/23/2021
  12. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, F. Assadian, Robotic manipulation using an independently actuated vision system, an adversarial control scheme, and a multi-tasking deep learning architecture, USPTO patent granted, No. 10,926,416, 02/23/2021
  13. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, K. Youcef-Toumi, A LiDAR device based on scanning mirrors array and multi-frequency laser modulation, US Patent granted, No. 10,649,072B2, 05/12/2020
  14. I. Soltani Bozchalooi, K. Youcef-Toumi, Multi-actuator design and control for a high-speed/large-range nanopositioning system, US Patent granted, No. 9,397,587, 07/19/2016.
  15. H. Tavakoli Nia, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Y. Li, H. Hung, E. Frank, K. Yousef-Toumi, C. Ortiz and A. Grodzinsky, High-frequency rheology system, US Patent No. 8,516,610, granted 08/20/2013 .
  16. M. Liang, I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Parameter independent detection of rotating machinery faults, US Patent No. 8,544,331B2 and Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) Patent No. CA2, 687,785A1, granted 09/15/2015.
  17. M. Liang, T. H. Yeap, X. Fan and I. Soltani Bozchalooi, Method to extract target signals of a known type from raw data containing an unknown number of target signals, interference, and noise, US Patent No. 8,073,634B2 and Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), granted 06/12/2011.