Kazem Kazerounian

Dean of the School of Engineering

Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Education

• Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1984
• M.S., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1981
• B.S., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1980

Research Focus

• Nano-bio mechanical systems
• Analysis and design of mechanisms
• Machines and gear systems
• Robotics
• Analytical and computational kinematics
• Design optimization

Awards

• ASME Design Division Mechanisms and Robotics Award, 2006
• George Wood Award, 1997
• ABB Outstanding Faculty Award, 1997

Publications

“Functional Evaluation of a Personalized Orthosis for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Motion Capture Analysis,” (M Huber, M Eschbach, K Kazerounian, H Ilies), Journal of Medical Devices 15 (4), 041003, 2021.

“Kinematic Design of Functional Nanoscale Mechanisms From Molecular Primitives,” (MT Chorsi, P Tavousi, C Mundrane, V Gorbatyuk, K Kazerounian, H Ilies), Journal of Micro-and Nano-Manufacturing 9 (2), 021005, 2021.

“Synthesizing Functional Mechanisms from a Link Soup,” (P Tavousi, K Kazerounian, H Ilies), Journal of Mechanical Design 138 (6), 2016.

“Protofold ii: Enhanced Model and Implementation for Kinetostatic Protein Folding,” (P Tavousi, M Behandish, HT Ilieş, K Kazerounian), Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine 6 (3), 034601, 2015.

Hoop Stress and the Conical Connection, (D Flanagan, J Phillips, M Connor, T Dyer, K Kazerounian), Journal of Oral Implantology 41 (1), 37-44, 2015.