Sorbonne Student Exchange

This partnership seeks to build a new collaboration between CBB researchers at the University of Waterloo and the group of Sorbonne Universités in the transdisciplinary area of Health Engineering that incorporates UW strengths in engineering, applied health, computer science and aging. 

Funding for student mobility is supported by the BIOMEDInnov program (Sorbonne), and a Graduate Research Studentship sponsorship (Waterloo). 

Program coordinators from Sorbonne and Waterloo institutions will evaluate all project submissions and will match students to supervisors. A subsequent letter of invitation, specifying the terms of agreement will be prepared by CBB in order to initiate the exchange.

Research Projects
Project UW Researcher Sorbonne Researcher Year
Glucose Level Monitoring at mm-Waves Professor Safieddin Safavi-Naeini and Professor George Shaker - Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS) - ECE UTC - Professor Dan Istrate and Professor Sofiane Boudaoud 2017-2018
Evaluation of aging effects on muscle efficiency during isometric contractions sing HD-SEMG technique Professor Ning Jiang - Waterloo Engineering Bionics Lab (ENGBIO) - SYDE UTC - Professor Sofiane Boudaoud 2017-2018
Real-Time Indoor localization for fall detection Professor Safieddin Safavi-Naeini and Professor George Shaker - Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS) - ECE UTC - Professor Dan Istrate 2018
Ventilator mode nomenclature Professor Catherine Burns - Advanced Interface Design Lab - SYDE UTC - Professor Sofiane Boudaoud 2018
Next Generation Skeletal Tissue Mechanics Professor Thomas Willett - Composite Biomaterial Systems Laboratory - SYDE UTC - Professor Karim El Kirat 2018
High sensitivity detection of microvasculature with high-frame-rate ultrasound Professor Alfred Yu - Laboratory on Innovative Tech in Medical Ultrasound (LITMUS) Lab - ECE UPMC - Dr. Lori Bridal 2018
Visualization interface for a multiphysics and multiscale muscle model

Professor Ning Jiang - Waterloo Engineering Bionics Lab (ENGBIO) - SYDE

Professor John McPhee

 UTC - Professor Sofiane Boudaoud 2018
Radio Frequency - Electromagnetic Field Effect on Neonates Professor George Shaker - Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS) - ECE UPMC - Professor Hassan Aboushady 2018
Numerical simulation of a liquid drop impacting on a surface covered by a thin liquid film Professor Xianguo Li - Fuel Cell and Green Energy Lab - MME UPMC - Stéphane Zaleski

2018
Smart Thermostat Technology to Predict the Onset of Dementia Professor Plinio Morita - Ubiquitous Health Technology Lab - SPPHS UPMC - Professor Hamid Kokabi 2018
EEG fatigue and aging

Professor Jennifer Boger - Intelligent Technologies for Wellness and Independent Living (ITWIL) Lab - SYDE

Professor Ning Jiang - Waterloo Engineering Bionics Lab (ENGBIO) - SYDE

 UPMC - Professor Hamid Kokabi 2018
Deep Barcodes for Identification of Histopathology Images Professor Hamid Tizhoosh - Laboratory for Knowledge Interference in Medical Image Analysis (KIMIA) - SYDE UPMC - Professor Hamid Kokabi 2018
Portable Electromagnetic Microfluidic Devices for Immunological Detection with Magnetic Nanoparticles Professor Carolyn Ren - UPMC-Guillaume Perry 2018
Non-Contact Glucose Level Monitoring at mm-Waves in Blood Professor George Shaker - Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS) - ECE UPMC-Julien Sarrazin 2018
Design of a Microfluidic Chip to Assess Platelet Function Prior to Cardiovascular bypass surgery Professor Maud Gorbet - UTC- Anne Le Goff 2018
Functional Investigation of the Human Knee Professor Naveen Chandrashekar - UTC- Frederic Marin 2018
How to share your research? Karin Schmidlin - Stratford School of INteraction Design and Business CELSA - Juliette Charbonneaux 2018
Evaluation of aging effects on muscle efficiency during isometric contractions of upper and down limbs using HD-SEMG technique Professor Ning Jiang - Waterloo Engineering Bionics Lab (ENGBIO) - SYDE UTC - Professor Sofiane Boudaoud 2019
Audio Recognition of Activities of Daily Living Using IoT Professor Plinio Morita - Ubiquitous Health Technology Lab - SPPHS UTC - Professor Dan Istrate 2019
Mineralization of engineered gelatin matrices for bone engineering Professor Thomas Willett - Composite Biomaterial Systems Laboratory - SYDE UTC - Professor Karim El Kirat 2019
Surface mineralization and degradation of engineered biopolymer matrices for bone engineering Professor Thomas Willett - Composite Biomaterial Systems Laboratory - SYDE UTC - Professor Karim El Kirat 2019

Bio-Sensors using Electromagnetic waves

(2 students)

 Professor George Shaker - Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS) - ECE

UTC - Professors Sofiane Boudaoud and Dan Istrate

UPMC - Professor Julien Sarrzin

 2019

Zero-power Sensors

(2 students)

 Professor George Shaker - Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS) - ECE

UTC - Professor Dan Istrate

UPMC - Professor Hamid Kokabi

 2019
Development of magnetically navigated catheter and capsule robot for microsurgery and drug delivery Professor Behrad Khamesee - Maglev Microrobotics Laboratory - MME UTC - Professor Sofiane Boudaoud 2019
Cell manipulation using magnetic actuation Professor Behrad Khamesee - Maglev Microrobotics Laboratory - MME UPMC - Professor Hamid Kokabi 2019
Novel Geometries for Vibrations Harvesting Applications Professor Armaghan Salehian - MME UPMC - Professor Hakeim Talleb 2019

(UTC) Université de Technologie Compiegne

(UPMC) Université Pierre et Marie Curie

(CELSA) Centre d’études littéraires et scientifiques appliquées