{"id":36,"date":"2020-11-25T17:58:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T17:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/soltani\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:41:10","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/soltani\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"36\" class=\"elementor elementor-36\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-56e4c78c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"56e4c78c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c7f91e\" data-id=\"c7f91e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a7c64af elementor-widget elementor-widget-page-title\" data-id=\"7a7c64af\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"page-title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"hfe-page-title hfe-page-title-wrapper elementor-widget-heading\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tPublications  \n\t\t\t<\/h2 > \n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35381b2f elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"35381b2f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-60db4c00 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"60db4c00\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=BJ2teVoAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Google Scholar listing of publications<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #002855; font-family: inherit; font-size: 23px; font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8bba7ca elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8bba7ca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Journal Publications<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c7219d3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c7219d3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ol start=\"1\" type=\"1\">\n \t<li>M-Mahdi Naddaf-Sh, Andrew Lee, Kin Yen, Eemon Amini, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, Low-Cost Infrared Vision Systems for Improved Safety of Emergency Vehicle Operations Under Low-Visibility Conditions, <i>IEEE Access<\/i>, Accepted, 2025.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/11180914\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/11180914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/11180914<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>Rongfei Li, Francis F Assadian, <b>Iman Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, <a title=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/00202940251346112\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/00202940251346112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\">Design and simulation of vehicle motion tracking system using a Youla controller output observation system<\/a>, Measurement and Control, 2025.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/00202940251346112\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/00202940251346112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\">https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/00202940251346112<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>Dinesh Kumar, Amin Ghorbanpour, Kin Yen, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, Design and Implementation of a Dual Uncrewed Surface Vessel Platform for Bathymetry Research under High-flow Conditions, <i>IEEE Access<\/i>, Vol 13, 106634-106651, 2025<br><a title=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/11037445\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/11037445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"5\">https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/11037445<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, Johnaton Schofield, Mehran Madani, Daniel Kish, Parisa Emami-Naeini, User-Centered Insights into Assistive Navigation Technologies for Individuals with Visual Impairment, <i>Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness<\/i> (Accepted), 2025.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2504.06379\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2504.06379\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"6\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2504.06379<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>Dechen Gao, Shuangyu Cai, Hanchu Zhou, Hang Wang, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, Junshan Zhang, CarDreamer: Open-Source Learning Platform for World Model Based Autonomous Driving, <i>IEEE Journal of Internet of Things<\/i>, 12(3), 2866-2875, 2025.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10714437\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10714437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"7\">https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10714437<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>Ehsan Kazemi, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, Assessing the Impact of Driver Compliance on Traffic Flow and Safety in Work Zones Amid Varied Mixed Autonomy Scenarios, <i>Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives<\/i>, Vol. 27, 2024.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2590198224001994\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2590198224001994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"8\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2590198224001994<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>A. Ghafourian, Z. CuiZhu, D. Shi, I. Chuang, F. Charette, R. Sachdeva, and <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, Hierarchical end-to-end autonomous navigation through few-shot waypoint detection, <i>IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, <\/i>9(4), 3211-3218, 2024.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10433735\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10433735\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"9\">https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10433735<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>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), <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b> (co-corresponding author), Performance of automated machine learning in predicting outcomes of pneumatic retinopexy, <i>Ophthalmology Science<\/i>,4(5), 2024.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/www.ophthalmologyscience.org\/article\/S2666-9145(24)00006-X\/fulltext\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ophthalmologyscience.org\/article\/S2666-9145(24)00006-X\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"10\">https:\/\/www.ophthalmologyscience.org\/article\/S2666-9145(24)00006-X\/fulltext<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>A. Ghafourian, H. Shui, D. Upadhyay, R. Gupta, D. Filev, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, Targeted collapse regularized autoencoder for anomaly detection: black hole at the center, <i>IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems<\/i> (early access), 2024.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/10720395\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/10720395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"11\">https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/10720395<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>D. Shi, A. Rahimpour, A. Ghafourian, M.Naddaf, T. Lasky, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, Deep Bayesian-Assisted Keypoint Detection for Pose Estimation in Assembly Automation, <i>Sensors<\/i>, 23(13), 2023<br><a title=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1424-8220\/23\/13\/6107\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1424-8220\/23\/13\/6107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"12\">https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1424-8220\/23\/13\/6107<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>Z. Yang, T. Zhang, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, E. Darve, Memory Augmented Generative Adversarial Networks for Anomaly Detection, <i>IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems<\/i>, 33(6) \u2013 2324-2334, 2022.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/9664442\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/9664442\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"13\">https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/9664442<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>I. Rangelow, T. Ivanov, A. Ahmad, M. Kaestner, C. Lenk, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, F. Xia, K. Youcef-Toumi, M. Holz, A.Reum, Active scanning probes: A versatile toolkit for fast imaging and emerging nanofabrication, <i>Journal of Vacuum Science &amp; Technology B<\/i>, 35 (2017)<br><a title=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/avs\/jvb\/article\/35\/6\/06G101\/591631\/Review-Article-Active-scanning-probes-A-versatile\" href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/avs\/jvb\/article\/35\/6\/06G101\/591631\/Review-Article-Active-scanning-probes-A-versatile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"14\">https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/avs\/jvb\/article\/35\/6\/06G101\/591631\/Review-Article-Active-scanning-probes-A-versatile<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, 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, <i>Ultramicroscopy<\/i>, 160 (2016) 213-224. Featured in MIT-NEWS, Boston Globe, Advanced Materials.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0304399115300528\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0304399115300528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"15\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0304399115300528<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>A. Schuh, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, I. W Rangelow and K. Youcef-Toumi, Multi-eigenmode control for high material contrast in bimodal and higher harmonic atomic force microscopy, <i>Nanotechnology<\/i>, 26 (2015) 235706.<\/li>\n \t<li>H. T. Nia, L. Han, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, P. Roughley, K. Y. Toumi, A. J. Grodzinsky and C. Ortiz, Aggrecan nanoscale solid\u2013fluid interactions are a primary determinant of cartilage dynamic mechanical properties, <i>ACS NANO<\/i>, 9 (3) (2015).<\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, and K. Youcef-Toumi, Multi-Actuation and PI control: a Simple Recipe for High-Speed and Large-Range Atomic Force Microscopy, <i>Ultramicroscopy<\/i>, 146 (2014), 117-124.<\/li>\n \t<li>H. T. Nia, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, Y. Li, L. Han, H. Hung, E. Frank, K. Youcef-Toumi, C. Ortiz, A. Grodzinsky, <a title=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0006349513002774\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0006349513002774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"16\">High-bandwidth AFM-based rheology reveals that cartilage is most sensitive to high loading rates at early stages of impairment<\/a>, <i>Biophysical journal<\/i>, 104 (2013) 1529-1537. Featured in MIT-News and ScienceDaily.<\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, K. Youcef-Toumi, D. J. Burns and G. Fantner, Compensator design for improved counterbalancing in high speed atomic force microscopy, American Inst. of Physics &#8211; <i>Review of Scientific Instruments<\/i>, 82 (2011).<\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b> and M. Liang, In-line identification of oil debris signals: an adaptive subband filtering approach, <i>Measurement Science and Technology<\/i>, 21 (2010) 015104.<\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b> and M. Liang, Teager Energy Operator for multi-modulation extraction and its application for gearbox fault detection, <i>Smart Materials and Structures<\/i>, 19 (2010) 075008.<\/li>\n \t<li>M. Liang and <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, An energy operator approach to joint application of amplitude and frequency-demodulations for bearing fault detection, <i>Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing<\/i>, 24 (2010) 1473-1494.<\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b> and M. Liang, Parameter-free bearing fault detection based on maximum likelihood estimation and differentiation, <i>Measurement Science and Technology<\/i>, 20 (2009) 065102.<\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b> 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. <a title=\"http:\/\/top25.sciencedirect.com\/subject\/engineering\/12\/journal\/mechanical-systems-and-signal-processing\/08883270\/archive\/15\/\" href=\"http:\/\/top25.sciencedirect.com\/subject\/engineering\/12\/journal\/mechanical-systems-and-signal-processing\/08883270\/archive\/15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"17\">Ranked among the Top 25 Hottest Articles of <i>Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing<\/i>. <\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b> and M. Liang, <a title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jsv.2007.07.038\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jsv.2007.07.038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"18\">A Smoothness Index guided approach to wavelet parameter selection in signal de-noising and fault detection<\/a>, <i>Journal of Sound and Vibration<\/i>, 308(1-2) (2007) 246-267.<\/li>\n \t<li>A. Ghaffari, H. Abdollahi, M.R.Khoshayand, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, A.Dadgar and M.Rafiee-Tehrani, <a title=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijpharm.2006.07.056\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijpharm.2006.07.056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"19\">Performance Comparison of Neural Network Training Algorithms in Modeling of Bimodal Drug Delivery<\/a>, <i>International Journal of Pharmaceutics<\/i>, 327(1-2), 126-138, 2006.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Under Revision<\/h4>\n<ol start=\"26\" type=\"1\">\n \t<li>A. Ghafourian, A. Lee, D. Gao, T. Beer, K. Yen, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, 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.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Under Review<\/h4>\n<ol start=\"27\" type=\"1\">\n \t<li>Al Arsh Basheer, Justin Chang, Yuyang Chen, David Kim, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, Krysalis Hand: A Lightweight, High-Payload, 18-DoF Anthropomorphic End-Effector for Robotic Learning and Dexterous Manipulation, Under Review, 2025<br><a title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2504.12967\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2504.12967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"20\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2504.12967<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Ehsan Kazemi, Dechen Gao, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/span>, MarineFormer: A Spatio-Temporal Attention Model for USV Navigation in Dynamic Marine Environments, under review, 2025.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2410.13973\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2410.13973\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"21\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2410.13973<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23b95fd elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"23b95fd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f51d439 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f51d439\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ol start=\"29\" type=\"1\">\n \t<li>Amin Ghafourian, Mohammad Mehdi Johari Moghadam, Fateme Montazeri, Parisa Emami-Naeini, <span><b>I. Soltani Bochalooi<\/b><\/span><span>, OCT-based Detection of Ocular Inflammation, The International Ocular Inflammation Society (IOIS) Conference, Rio de Jeneiro, Brazil (Invited talk, panelist)<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li>Parisa Emami-Naeini, Amin Ghafourian, Mohammad Mehdi Johari Moghadam, Fateme Montazeri, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, <a title=\"https:\/\/iovs.arvojournals.org\/article.aspx?articleid=2805754\" href=\"https:\/\/iovs.arvojournals.org\/article.aspx?articleid=2805754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-linkindex=\"22\">Predicting Retinal Inflammation in Uveitis using OCT-Based Machine Learning<\/a>, ARVO Investigative Ophthalmology &amp; Visual Science, 66(8), 2025.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/iovs.arvojournals.org\/article.aspx?articleid=2805754\" href=\"https:\/\/iovs.arvojournals.org\/article.aspx?articleid=2805754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-linkindex=\"23\">https:\/\/iovs.arvojournals.org\/article.aspx?articleid=2805754<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>Ian Chuang, Andrew Lee, Dechen Gao, Mahdi Naddaf, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, Active Vision Might Be All You Need: Exploring Active Vision in Bimanual Robotic Manipulation, Proceedings of the <i>International Conference on Robotic and Automation<\/i> (ICRA), 2025.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2409.17435\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2409.17435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-linkindex=\"24\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2409.17435<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Ling-Yuan Chen, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, InterACT: Inter-dependency Aware Action Chunking with Hierarchical Attention Transformers for Bimanual Manipulation, <i>Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning<\/i> (CoRL), 2024.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/openreview.net\/forum?id=lKGRPJFPCM\" href=\"https:\/\/openreview.net\/forum?id=lKGRPJFPCM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-linkindex=\"25\">https:\/\/openreview.net\/forum?id=lKGRPJFPCM<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>Amin Ghafourian, Zhongying CuiZhu, Debo Shi, Ian Chuang, Francois Charette, Rithik Sachdeva, and <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, Hierarchical end-to-end autonomous navigation through few-shot waypoint detection, <i>Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving Symposium<\/i>, Dec 2023.<\/li>\n \t<li>Z. Yang, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, E. Darve, Anomaly Detection with Domain Adaptation, Visual Anomaly and Novelty Detection (VAND workshop) <i>Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition<\/i> (CVPR), 2023.<\/li>\n \t<li>Z. CuiZhu, A. Ghafourian, F. Charette, D. Shi, M. Cui, A. Krishnamachar, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, One shot learning of visual path navigation for autonomous vehicles (ML4AV workshop), NeurIPS, 2022.<\/li>\n \t<li>Rongfei Li, F. Assadian, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, Design and Implementation of Vehicle Tracking System Using a Youla Controller Output Observer, <a><i>ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition<\/i><\/a>, 2020.<\/li>\n \t<li><a><span>Z. Yang, <\/span><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b><span>, E. Darve, Generative adversarial networks with anomaly augmentation, <\/span><i>24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence<\/i><span>, 2019<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><span>F. Xia, <\/span><span><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b><\/span><span>, K. Youcef-Toumi, Induced vibration contact detection for minimizing cantilever tip-sample interaction forces in jumping mode atomic force microscopy, <\/span><i>American Control Conference<\/i>, 2017.<a title=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/7963591\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/7963591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-linkindex=\"26\"><span style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;\">https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/7963591<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b><b>, <\/b>A. C. Houck and K. Youcef-Toumi, A study on the effectiveness of PI control for multi-actuated atomic force microscopy, <i>American Control Conference<\/i>, 2015. Invited Paper<b><\/b><\/li>\n \t<li><span>A. Schuh, <\/span><span><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b><\/span><span>, I. W. Rangelow, K. Youcef-Toumi, Estimator based multi-eigenmode control of cantilevers in multifrequency atomic force microscopy, <\/span><i>American Control Conference<\/i>, 2015.<a title=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/7171011\" href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/7171011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-linkindex=\"27\">https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/7171011<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, K. Youcef-Toumi, <a>Control design for division and compensation with application to high-speed\/large-range nano-positioning<\/a>, <i>American Control Conference<\/i>, Portland, Oregan, 2014. Invited Paper. Best presentation award in precision mechatronics.<\/li>\n \t<li>H. T. Nia, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, Y. Li, E. Frank, K. Youcef-Toumi, A. Grodzinsky and C. Ortiz, The effect of GAG depletion on cartilage nanoscale hydraulic permeability, <i>Transactions of the 58th Annual Orthopaedic Research Society<\/i>, San Francisco, CA, 2012.<\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, K. Youcef-Toumi, D. J. Burns and G. E. Fantner, A vibration suppression approach to high-speed atomic force microscopy, <i>American Control Conference<\/i>, Montreal, Canada, 2012.<\/li>\n \t<li>H. TavakoliNia, L. Han, Y. Li, <b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, H. Hung, E. Frank, K. Youcef-Toumi, A. Grodzinsky, and C. Ortiz, Poro\/Viscoelasticity of cartilage at the nanoscale, 2011, <i>4th International Conference on the Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues<\/i>, Hawaii, USA, 11-15 Dec, 2011.<\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b> and M. Liang, Frequency demodulation for detecting mechanical faults with impulsive vibration signatures, <i>IEEE Control and Decision Conference (CCDC)<\/i>, Mianyang, China, May 23-25, 2011.<\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b> and M. Liang, Oil debris signal analysis based on empirical mode decomposition for machinery condition monitoring, <i>American Control Conference<\/i>, St. Louis, Missouri, June 10-12, 2009.<\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b> and M. Liang, Vibration and electrical interference removal for improved bearing fault diagnosis, <i>proceedings of the 11th Mechatronics Forum Biennial International Conference (Mechatronics 2008)<\/i>, Limerick, Ireland, June 23-25, 2008.<\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b> and M. Liang, Enhancement of the signals collected by oil debris sensors, <i>American Control Conference<\/i>, Seattle, June 11-13, 2008.<\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b> and M. Liang, Identification of high SNR frequency band for bearing fault signature enhancement, <i>proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP2007)<\/i>, Xiamen, China, 4-6 Dec, 2007.<\/li>\n \t<li><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b> and M. Liang, A combined spectral subtraction and wavelet de-noising method for bearing fault detection, <i>American Control Conference<\/i>, New York July 11-13, 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Under review<\/h4>\n<ol start=\"51\" type=\"1\">\n \t<li>Ian Chuang, Andrew Lee, Dechen Gao, Jinyu Zou, <b>Iman Soltani<\/b>, Look, Focus, Act: Efficient and Robust Robot Learning via Human Gaze and Foveated Vision Transformers, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2507.15833\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2507.15833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-linkindex=\"28\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2507.15833<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><span>Dechen Gao, Boqi Zhao, Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Hanchu Zhou, Hang Wang, Zhe Zhao, Junshan Zhang, <b>Iman Soltani<\/b>, <\/span><a title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2507.13231\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2507.13231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-linkindex=\"29\">VITA: Vision-to-Action Flow Matching Policy<\/a>, The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2507.13231\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2507.13231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-linkindex=\"30\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2507.13231<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>Dechen Gao, Hang Wang, Hanchu Zhou, Nejib Ammar, Shatadal Mishra, Ahmadreza Moradipari, <b>Iman Soltani<\/b>, Junshan Zhang, <a title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2505.10442\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2505.10442\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-linkindex=\"31\">IN-RIL: Interleaved Reinforcement and Imitation Learning for Policy Fine-Tuning<\/a>, The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.<br><a title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2505.10442\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2505.10442\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-linkindex=\"32\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2505.10442<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li>Andrew Lee, Ian Chuang, Dechen Gao, Kai Fukazawa, <b>Iman Soltani<\/b>, Gaze on the Prize: Shaping Visual Attention with Return-Guided Contrastive Learning, The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.<\/li>\n \t<li><span>Kai Fukazawa, Kunal Mundada, <b>Iman Soltani<\/b>, RAMAC: Multimodal Risk-Aware Offline Reinforcement Learning and the Role of Behavior Regularization, The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.<\/span><br><a title=\"https:\/\/www.arxiv.org\/abs\/2510.02695\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arxiv.org\/abs\/2510.02695\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-linkindex=\"33\">https:\/\/www.arxiv.org\/abs\/2510.02695<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f0987c2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f0987c2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Patents<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8010c8c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8010c8c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ol start=\"1\" type=\"1\"><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b><\/span>, Mahdi Naddaf-Shargh, A Multimodal Distributed Sensing Device, US Patent Pending, filed June 2025.<\/li><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, A. Basheer, An end effector having multiple fingers for robotic systems, US Patent Pending, filed April 2025.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\">Z. Yang,\u00a0<b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, E. F. Darve, Anomaly augmented generative adversarial networks, granted US 12,165,067 B2, 2024<\/li><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, P. Emami-Naeini, J. Schofield, M. Madani, \u201cTactile-enhanced display interface\u201d. US Patent Pending, filed April 2023.\u00a0<\/li><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>\u00a0and P. Emami-Naeini, \u201cA head mounted device including stereoscopic display and optical imaging and\/or sensing modalities\u201d. US and WIPO Patent pending, US20240237897A1, 2021.<\/li><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, \u201cPZT, Multi-wavelength structured light camera system for precision positioning and quality control\u201d, US Patent pending US20240127568A1, 2021.<\/li><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, A. Rahimpour, D. Upadhyay, Systems and methods for image-based component detection, US Patent granted ,US-11423571-B2, 2022<\/li><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, F. Charette, D. P. Filev, R. Burke, D. Upadhyay, Vehicle neural network enhancement, US Patent granted, US-11829131-B2, 2023<\/li><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, L. Scaria, F. Assadian, Adaptive Sensor Fusion, US patent granted No. 11,069,161 2021<\/li><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, Learning systems and methods, US patent granted No. 11,126,190B2,\u00a0 09\/21\/2021<\/li><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><a name=\"x__Hlk87869402\"><\/a><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, 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<\/li><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><a name=\"x__Hlk87869496\"><\/a><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, 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<\/li><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, 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<\/li><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\"><a name=\"x__Hlk87868840\"><\/a><b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, 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.<\/li><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\">H. Tavakoli Nia,\u00a0<b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, 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 .<\/li><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\">M. Liang,\u00a0<b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>,\u00a0<a name=\"x__Hlk84511135\"><\/a>Parameter independent detection of rotating machinery faults, US Patent No. 8,544,331B2 and Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) Patent No.\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/CA2687785A1?dq=bozchalooi&amp;ei=dCtgUuW5Nta24APE1YGoDw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/CA2687785A1?dq=bozchalooi&amp;ei=dCtgUuW5Nta24APE1YGoDw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"34\">CA2, 687,785A1<\/a>, granted 09\/15\/2015.<\/li><li class=\"x_MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\">M. Liang, T. H. Yeap, X. Fan and\u00a0<b>I. Soltani Bozchalooi<\/b>, 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.<\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publications Google Scholar listing of publications\u00a0 Journal Publications 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 Rongfei Li, Francis F Assadian, Iman Soltani Bozchalooi, Design and simulation of vehicle motion tracking system using a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/soltani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/soltani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/soltani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/soltani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/soltani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/soltani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/soltani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/soltani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}