Co-founder profile / CEO / Co-Founder

Dr. Sasan Matinfar

Surgical Sonification & Multisensory Medical Technology

Researcher and inventor connecting computation, medicine, perception and music through surgical sound.

Portrait of Dr. Sasan Matinfar

01 / Signature contribution

From Tissue to Sound

A research framework for transforming multimodal intraoperative information and tool–tissue dynamics into meaningful auditory representations.

Tissue / interactionModelingSound

02 / Biography

Sasan Matinfar is an interdisciplinary researcher exploring how complex surgical information can become perceptually accessible through sound and multisensory interaction. At TUM CAMP, he leads the Sonification Team and serves as Scientific Coordinator of the DFG Synergia project between TUM and TU Dresden.

He conceived From Tissue to Sound, a research framework that connects medical imaging, vibroacoustic sensing and interaction data with computational auditory feedback. His work spans computer-assisted intervention, medical XR, adaptive interfaces and multisensory human–AI interaction.

He earned a PhD in Computer Science summa cum laude from TUM under Prof. Nassir Navab. Studies in Musicology at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar and Piano Performance at the Art University of Tehran inform his approach to sound as a way of understanding medical data.

03 / Selected awards & recognition

Sasan Matinfar’s MICCAI Young Scientist Award certificate, 2017

2017 / MICCAI Young Scientist Award

MICCAI Young Scientist Award

Young Scientist recognition from the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society.

2025 / Data Sonification Award

Ocular Stethoscope

Auditory support for retinal membrane peeling, making subtle tissue elevations perceptible through sound.

Data Sonification Award 2026 for MMII

2026 / Data Sonification Award

Multimodal Medical Image Interaction (MMII)

Recognition for multimodal interaction with medical images.

04 / Selected highlights

Research Lead

CAMP Sonification Team · TUM

Scientific Coordinator

DFG Synergia · TUM / TU Dresden

Interdisciplinary training

Computer science, musicology and piano performance

05 / Work & contribution

From Tissue to Sound

Research framework and 2025 Medical Image Analysis publication

Ocular Stethoscope

Auditory support for retinal membrane peeling