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Research Interests:

• Dynamics and control of MEMS
• Design of MEMS devices
• Micro-power generation
• Multi-body dynamics and control
• Biomechanics

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Research Interests:

• Biomechanical properties of soft tissues
• Integration of imaging and mechanics
• Biomechanical-based image registration for surgery and radiotherapy
• Mechanics and structural applications of composite materials
• Smart devices and sensors

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[YouTube Lecture] September 30, 2014 "An engineering prospective on Cancer'

Research Interests:

• Pathogen detection, disinfection and sterilization using UV light

• Photochemistry, photocatalytic applications to water and air treatment

• Environmental engineering

• Biotechnology, biofiltration

• Metal nanoparticle synthesis and applications

• Process modelling and simulation

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Research Interests:

• Assistive Robotics and Rehabilitation Engineering

• Neuromechanical Modeling; Robot-Based System ID
• Human-Robot Interaction and Neural Control
• Movement Analysis and Sensorimotor Deficit Modeling
• Smart Implants and Prosthetics
• Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning 

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Research Interests:

• Health informatics

• Clinical problem solving, reasoning, and decision making

• Cognitive methodologies for the analysis of human computer interaction, knowledge acquisition, and medical expertise

• Cognitive aspects of computerized clinical practice guidelines

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Research Interests:

• Viral vector drug delivery

• Biological nano-particles (Virus-Like Particles or VLPs)

• Vaccines, gene therapy, gene expression, genetic diseases

• Baculovirus Bioprocessing

• Process dynamics of virus-based systems for the production of complex biologics such as viral vectors and vaccines

• Development of strategies using multiple viruses to obtain recombinant products in cell culture

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[YouTube Lecture] September 30, 2014 "Tools and strategies for complex biologics production in animal cells: applications to insect and mammalian cell culture"

[YouTube] January 26, 2011 "Research Profile: Marc Aucoin"

Research Interests:

• Characterization And Modelling Of The Behaviour Of Construction Materials
• Smart Pavement Materials And Structures
• Mechanistic Pavement Design Methods
• Optimization Of The Use Of Recycled Materials In Sustainable Infrastructure System
• Sustainable Development
• Life Cycle Analysis

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Research Interests:

• Quantum devices (High and low Tc tunnel devices, nanobiotechnology-based devices)
• Biomedical engineering, MEMS/MOEMS and CMOS integration
• Lab on chip, medical diagnostic and microfluidic devices
• Remote sensing and radio astronomy

Research Interests:

• Simulation, light and matter interactions, biomedical applications
• Predictive simulation of light interactions with organic and inorganic materials
• Realistic modeling of material appearance for image synthesis
• Remote sensing (effects of adverse environmental conditions on crops and forests)
• Biomedical optics (development of procedures and equipment for the prevention and treatment of different medical conditions, from jaundice to skin cancer)

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Research Interests:

• Multisensory integration
• Perception and action
• Psychophysics
• The vestibular system
• Virtual reality

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[Waterloo News] September 25, 2018 "Virtual reality motion sickness may be predicted and counteracted"

[ScienceDaily] December 15, 2018 "Aging warps our perception of time, study finds"

[Record] October 12, 2017 "Aging slows perception of falls: UW study"

Research Interests:

• Solid-state electron and nuclear spin based implementations for quantum information processing (QIP)
• Spin qubits in quantum dots
• Low temperature quantum transport
• Nanowires and novel materials
• Coherent control of quantum systems
• Electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies

• Infrared imaging technology

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[Waterloo Stories] September 29, 2013 "Waterloo researcher loves the hands-on side of quantum science"

Research Interests:

• Treatment of neurological disorders (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and mental health conditions including schizophrenia and depression)

• Molecular pharmacology and pharmaceutical delivery

• Intracellular signaling pathways in neurons, and the role of cytoskeletal dynamics in the trafficking of receptors in neurons

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Research Interests:

• Responsive, kinetic, distributed architectural environments
• interactive systems applied to built environment
• lightweight structures
• Digital fabrication
• Mixed-material prototyping applied to architectural component systems.  

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[Azure Magazine] June 13, 2018, "transforming future couture' 

[Waterloo Stories] October 23, 2013 "School of Architecture hosts international conference"

[Waterloo Stories] August 9, 2013 "Fashion and the city"

Research Interests

• Breast cancer, glioblastoma and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
• Vaccine development
• Immunotherapy
• Phage based nanomedicine

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Research Interests:

• Biomedical optics

• Tissue optics and spectroscopy

• Ultrafast optics, coherence tomography, sensing, imaging

• Confocal and fluorescence microscopy

• Skin cancer detection

• Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

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Research Interests:

• cancer therapy
• colorectal, breast, prostate and lung carcinomas
• cancer tissue microenvironment
• chemokine pathways
• tumor-initiating cells
• proteins

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Research Interests:

• Intelligent technology
• Ambient assisted living
• Zero-effort technology
• Aging, health, and wellbeing
• Assistive Technology

Schlegel Research Chair in Technology for Independent Living

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Research Interests:

• Research, in vitro toxicology, and biotechnology of animal cell cultures
• Roles of nutrition, hormones and polypeptide growth factors on the growth and differentiation of fish tissues and organs.

Research Interests:

• Chemical process control - Robust control, Nonlinear control, Model Predictive Control (MPC)

• Systems biology - modeling, control and optimization of biological processes, metabolic flux analysis, dynamic metabolic flux models, run-to-run (batch to batch) optimization of pharmaceutical process

• Monitoring/Fault Detection of chemical and biological/biotechnological processes - Multivariate statistical methods for monitoring and fault detection, Inferential (soft) sensors

Research Interests:

• Ecological Interface Design
• Cognitive Work Analysis
• Graphical interface design and visualization
• Healthcare systems and clinical diagnostic systems

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[Office of Research] May 22, 2018, CBB Executive Director reappointed for third term 

[YouTube] February 5, 2010 "Research Profile: Catherine Burns"

Research Interests:

• Imaging for Type 1 Diabetes
• Alzheimer Diagnosis
• Imaging of the Rear of the Eye
• Optical Properties of the Eye amd changes in the Eye's Optical Properties
• Two Photon Therapies
• Ophthalmic instrumentation, optical systems, quality and design

• Confocal microscopy and ophthalmoscopy, measurement of refractive error

• Retinal image quality

• Optical effects of refractive surgery, reflections from the retina

• Optical properties of the eye, monochromatic aberrations of the eye

• Refractive properties of the crystalline lens and their changes with growth and accommodation

• Eye-imaging systems for treatment and diagnosis

• Biophysics, bio-photonics, and Vision Science.

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[Research2Reality] May 8, 2015 "Early Alzheimer's Diagnosis: Imaging the Living Eye"

[YouTube Lecture] October 1, 2014 "Optics of the Eye as a Window on the Brain"

[YouTube] February 12, 2013 "Melanie Campbell AAAS Profile"

[Waterloo Stories] February 12, 2013 "An early test for Alzhemer's disease"

[Waterloo Stories] January 22, 2013 "Early test for Alzheimer's may rely on the eyes"

Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:

• Imaging Amyloid Beta in the Retina
• Ophthalmic and Microscopy Imaging Technology

Research Interests:

• Human factors and cognitive ergonomics (driving, healthcare, aerospace

• Human performance and mental workload modeling, cognitive modeling

• Human-computer interaction, interface evaluation and design

• Controlled experiments, discrete event simulation, computational modeling

• Perception, decision making, skill learning, fatigue

• Artificial intelligence

• ACT-R, QN-ACTR,

• Wearable devices, environment-aware devices

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Research Interests:

• Orthopaedic biomechanics (ACL, knee mechanics)

• Biomedical device design

• Tissue engineering

• Implant design

Research Interests:

• Bacterial molecular genetics

• Functional genomics, metagenomics, genome engineering

• Metabolic functions

• Synthetic biology, bioplastics and bioproducts

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[Biology News] December 21, 2016 "Waterloo biologist part of a research collaboration creating new genetic toolbox"

[Royal Canadian Institute Lecture] November 8, 2015 "Genome Engineering. Should we do it? (Can we afford not to?)"

[YouTube Lecture] September 30, 2014 "Mining microbial metagenomes"

[YouTube Lecture] September 19, 2013 "Mining metagenomes for bioplastics and other useful bioproducts"

[CBB researcher story] November 29, 2012 "Breaking Ground in Open Resource Metagenomics"

Research Interests:

• Nano-Biomedical engineering, biochemistry, molecular cell biology

• Colloid and Surface Science (surface chemistry, absorption kinetics, thermodynamics)

• Polymer materials, CO2

• Energy storage and conversion, battery systems and alternative energy

• Drug and gene delivery, genomics

• Lipid bilayer and cell membrane actions

University Research Chair

Research Interests:

• Health informatics

• Translational research in healthcare and medicine

• Health system integration
• Semantic interoperability
• Healthcare decision making and decision support
• Health data analytics
• Medical imaging informatics
• Patient safety
• Mobile health
• Wearable devices

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[Waterloo Stories] July 10, 2017 "Waterloo software improves care for kidney patients"

[CBB researcher story] July 21, 2015 "Data management in Health Care"

Research Interests:

• Biochemical engineering

• Microbial biotechnology

• Synthetic and molecular biology

• Genetic, metabolic and protein engineering

• Biopharmaceuticals (to treat autoimmune diseases and prevent rejection of organ transplants)

• Biomanufacturing, bioprocessing technologies (biological strain construction, bioreaction cultivation, biofuels, bioproduct recovery and purification)

[Waterloo Stories] May 3, 2013 "Can bacteria help create a cheaper fuel for our cars?"

[UW Eng-e-news] August 14, 2013 "Engineering Life-enhancing research"

Research Interests:

• Biomedical and scientific imaging

• Computer vision and video analysis

• Image processing, segmentation/classification

• Multiresolution techniques

• Automated interpretation of SAR (synthetic aperture radar)

• Remote sensing

• Stochastic models

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[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners

[The Record] May 8,2018, have ties with a new Montreal sports analytics research lab in Kitchener

Research Interests:

• Web-based systems and applications (software engineering, applications, open data)
• Software engineering for enterprise management systems (business, government, environment, health)

• Food safety using modern information and communications technology particularly the Cloud, Web and Mobile systems

• Agricultural management, precision agriculture and agri‐food technology, traceability from farm to fork

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Research Interests:

• CO2 capture from large point sources
• Large scale optimization of energy systems
• Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC)
• Syngas/Hydrogen production, Reaction Engineering

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Research Interests:

• Human body modeling for safety and protection (impact biomechanics, trauma prediction)
• Material testing, characterization and constitutive models
• Advanced modeling, additive manufacturing
• Structural crashworthiness and lightweight vehicle structures

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[Waterloo Stories] October 5, 2012 "New virtual crash test dummies will have plenty to say"

Research Interests:

• Coding theory

• Cross-layer optimization

• Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and space-time communications

• Multiuser detection

• Optical communications

• Wireless Communications

• Interface management

Research Interests

• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Boredom
• Mental Health 
• Neuroimaging 

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Research Interests:

• Fundamental shoulder function and dysfunction
• Creation and validation of mathematical models to predict shoulder demands
• Applications of shoulder biomechanics to workplace injury prevention
• Rehabilitative and preventative strategies for ensuring shoulder health
• Digital human modeling, Computational musculoskeletal modeling
• Ergonomics
• Motion Capture
• Upper limb biomechanics

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Canada Research Chair in Shoulder Mechanics [Canada Research Chair Profile]

[Waterloo News] February 19, 2019 "How to make the push-up work for you" 

[Waterloo Stories] October 7, 2013 "Reducing shoulder injuries in the workplace"

Research Interests:

• Effects of toxic chemicals, including metals and oilsands process water, on aquatic organisms, principally fish.
• Biotic modifying factors of toxicity.
• Development of methods for environmental effects monitoring.
• Physiologically based pharmacokinetic modelling of contaminant levels in fish.

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[Waterloo Stories] March 21, 2013 "A river runs through it: Keeping an eye on the Alberta oil sands"

Research Interests:

• Genomics, proteins, antibodies
• Molecular immunology and immunotoxicology in fish populations and the design for better vaccines for aquaculture

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Canada Research Chair in Fish and Environmental Immunology [Canada Research Chair Profile]

[UW Science News] June 15, 2018, Waterloo Biologist mentors local teen, the 2018 International BioGENEius Challenge winner

[Waterloo Stories] January 22, 2018 "Vaccines not protecting farmed fish from disease"

[Waterloo Stories] February 13, 2014 "True love makes pacific salmon healthier"

[YouTube] October 9, 2013 "Science Scoop - For the love of fish!"

[Waterloo Stories] September 9, 2013 "Video conferencing connects Waterloo biologist to young students"

Research Interests:

• Sociology of Health
• Social Determinants of Health
• Comparative Health Care Systems
• Health
• Illness and Society

Research Interests:

• Biomedical ethics
• Ethics
• Moral Psychology
• Action Theory
• Political Philosophy 

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[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners

Research Interests:

• Molecular function prediction, design (proteins, DNA)

• Computational genomics

• Evolutionary bioinformatics and computational biology

[WCMR] June 18, 2018, receives Thermo Fisher Scientific Award

[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners

[Waterloo Stories] January 26, 2018 "Scientists find new kind of botox"

Research Interests:

• Cancer research

• Cell cycle, DNA replication, biomarkers and checkpoints

• Genetics, yeast genetics, molecular biology

• Protein factors

• Kinases

• Chromatin

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[CBB researcher story] January 2, 2013 "How the Trout are Saving Us: Using Biomarkers to Improve Water Quality"

Research Interests:

• Pharmacokinetics of drugs and environmental contaminants
• Optimization of drug therapy
• Physiologically-based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling and simulation (prediction of the absorption, distribution and elimination of a compound within an organism)

Research Interests:

• Effect of food, beverages, herbal products and other drugs on drug metabolism and disposition
• Investigation of the interaction between grapefruit juice and prescription medication
• pharmacokinetics

• drug metabolism

• pharmacogenomics

• drug interactions

• bioavailability/bioequivalence

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Research Interests:

• Mathematical modeling - Stochastic Modeling and Optimization, Markov Decision Processes, Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes, Dynamic Programming, Simulation Models.
• Health Care: Medical Decision Making, Organ Transplantation, Cancer Screening, Health Care Delivery.
• Production Planning: Multicriteria Scheduling

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Research Interests:

• Machining of Tissue-Engineered Bone Implants

• Biomanufacturing

• Precision motion control (high speed machine tools, robots, and electronic/semiconductor manufacturing equipment)

• Modeling and identification

• Optimal trajectory planning

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[Engineering News] October 19, 2016 "Researchers join advanced manufacturing network"

Research Interests:

• Biomaterials: emerging metallic and hybrid-cellular materials and nanostructured surfaces
• Advanced multi-functional materials and surface modification of metals and alloys

• Processing, characterization and properties of fine-grained, ultrafine-grained and nanostructured alloys

• Microstructural characterization, modeling and thermo-mechanical processing of light alloy processing

• Phase transformations in advanced light alloys

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Research Interests:

• Cooperative systems and sensor networks (multi-agent, multi-sensor systems)

• Nonlinear, adaptive, and switched dynamical systems; robust adaptive control; nonlinear and adaptive control designs for mechatronic systems

• Control applications (high performance flight and vehicle stability control, biomedical)

• Robotics and intelligent systems (multi-agent, motion planning, vision control, biomedical and assistive robotics)

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Research Interests:

• Computer vision, signal and image processing

• Remote sensing

• Intelligent systems and software

• Multiscale statistical modeling

• Societal and environmental systems

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​[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners

Research Interests:

• Intelligent drug delivery system design (dermal, transdermal, transmucosal, ocular, and intranasal) for Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Cancer, Immunology (Glaucoma, neural degenerative disorders, HPV, LSIL/CIN I, cervical cancer, Scleroderma)

• Non-invasive drug delivery technologies, biomolecular devices

• Gene therapy, protein, and vaccine development

• Nanomedicine, pharmaceutical development

• Nanotoxicology (nanomaterials, bioimaging, biomarkers)

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[Global Impact] [CBC] April 30, 2018 "Working with gene therapy to treat glaucoma"

[Waterloo Stories] July 5, 2012 "Revolutionary drug delivery"

Research Interests:

• Osteoporosis, fracture risk assessment algorithms, exercise interventions for reducing fracture risk in high risk individuals.

• Bone health and body composition in individuals with neurological impairment due to spinal cord injury (SCI).

• Medical imaging analysis to explore bone and muscle responses to activity or neurologic impairment, and evaluate new methods for image analysis.

• Rehabilitation and quality indicators, and in long term care

Schlegel Research Chair in Mobility & Aging

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Research Interests:

• Biocompatibility with biomaterials and biomedical devices
• Mechanisms of material-induced thrombosis (blood clot formation) with mechanical heart valves and coronary stents
• Ophthalmic biomaterials (such as soft contact lenses and keratoprosthesis)

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[YouTube] December 23, 2013 "Waterloo Engineering Research: Targeted Drug Delivery"

[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners

Research Interests:

• Mobile health technologies and social media in medication management

• Clinical and post-marketing phases of medication use

• Improve medication use and primary care via emerging technologies (mobile apps, social media)

• Pharmacy remuneration models and chronic disease management services in the community pharmacy setting

• Usability of mobile health applications and wearable activity trackers for older adults living with chronic disease.

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​[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners

​[Waterloo Stories] November 16, 2016 "The opioid crisis: How pharmacists can help save lives"

Research Interests:

• Regenerative medicine

• Nitric Oxide Synthase (NOS) structure, function, enzyme processes and the effects on blood pressure, neurotransmission, insulin release, memory storage, immune response, septic shock, atherosclerosis, diabetes, and myocardial and cerebral ischemia.

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Research Interests:

• Theoretical molecular biophysics and soft matter (chromosomes, polymers, electrostatics)

• Polymer physics for chromosome organization in a cell

• Confined polymers (chain topology, spatial organization, and dynamics)

• Electrostatic modification of lipid membranes

• Physical basis for cell selectivity of antimicrobial peptides

• Polyelectrolytes and polyampholytes

Research Interests

• Control system development for Driver Assistance Systems
• Fault-tolerant state estimation for biped robots
• Distributed Estimation
• Control Theory
• Multibody Dynamics

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Research interests:

• Imaging, treatment, and prevention of diseases
• Fabrication and characterization of innovative biomaterials for drug delivery systems (nanoparticles, medical devices, biodegradable films, hydrogels, etc.)
• Vaccine development for protection against HIV and other diseases

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[Waterloo News] February 6, 2019 "Researchers find new treatment for Chlamydia"

[Waterloo News] April 16, 2018 "Developing new way to fight transmission of HIV"

Research Interests:

• Assistive technology (physical, cognitive disabilities, dementia)

• Health informatics

• Artificial intelligence

• Computational social science

• Affective computing, computer vision

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[VJDementia] "The complex issue of emotion" 

[Computer Science News] June 29, 2017 "ACT@Home: An emotionally intelligent cognitive assistant to help people with Alzheimer’s disease"

[Waterloo Stories] January 2, 2013 "Making life easier for those living with Alzheimer's"

Research interests: 

• GTP-dependent phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinases
• IgA1 protease family of bacterial proteases

Research Interests:

• Methionine chemistry and biochemestry (amino acid methionine and its roles in proteins, cellular pathways and its functions)

• Bionanomaterials, bionanotechnology (for novel drug carriers, molecular foundations for nanodevices)

• Medicinal chemistry

• Enzymology
• Bioorganic chemistry
• Protein structure and function

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[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners

Research Interests:

• Economics of public health, health policy, international health
• Economic aspects of health and nutrition, internationally cost-effectiveness, cost, and prioritization of interventions
• Expertise in micronutrients, undernutrition, the double-burden of nutrition and other interventions
• Cost-effectiveness of walk-in counselling services in Ontario  

CIGI Chair in Global Health Economics [CIGI Profile]

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[AHS News] March 15,2018 "Part of international team examining medical testing in resource-limited countries"

Research Interests:

• Robustness of water supply systems, with a focus on treatment
• Facilitating application of newer treatment technologies (e.g. UV disinfection and membranes), including integration into existing facilities
• Identification and removal of trace chemical contaminants (pharmaceuticals & endocrine disrupters)
• Known and emerging pathogens, and their removal/inactivation by treatment processes
• Biodegradation

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NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Water Treatment [NSERC Profile]

[Waterloo Stories] March 14, 2013 "Protecting our drinking water for 20 years"

Research Interests:

• Microbial diversity and function at contaminated sites (primarily municipal landfills)
• DNA, RNA, and protein (meta-omics) sequences
• Environment remediation
• Impacts of human activities on the environment

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Canada Research Chair in Environmental Microbiology [Canada Research Chair Profile]

[YouTube] October 23, 2015 "Piecing life together - microbial diversity and function through meta-omic analyses"

[Waterloo Stories] April 12, 2016 "New tree of life may hold clues to cleaning up pollution"

Research Interests:

• Vascular aging and brain health
• Space physiology research
• Cardiovascular adaptation to exercise

Schlegel Research Chair in Vascular Aging & Brain Health

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[Waterloo News]  June 28, 2018 "AI and radar technologies could help diabetics manage their disease"

[Engineering News] June 28, 2018 "Researchers developing a prick-free glucose monitor"

[RD Magazine] June 28, 2018 "AI and Radar Technologies Could Help Diabetics Manage Their Disease" 

[Waterloo News] [CBC News] [Gadgets] May 16, 2018, Co-authors discuss the use of aerobic fitness data from wearable tech to predict illness

[Waterloo Stories] April 19, 2016 "Waterloo science aboard the International Space Station"

[Waterloo Stories] October 8, 2013 "Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield joins University of Waterloo"

[Waterloo Stories] December 17, 2012 "Canadian astronaut takes Waterloo research into orbit"

Research Interests:

• Mobility assistive devices
• Neuro-Musculo-Skeletal Modeling of Human Locomotion
• Autonomous Navigation Using Artificial Neural Networks
• Dynamic Seam Tracking for Robotic Welding, Arc Acoustics in GMA welding, Walking Robot Welder
• Automatic end-of-arm and tool-centre-point calibration

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Research Interests:

• Mathematical modelling in systems biology
• Control theory
• Synthetic biology

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[CBB researcher story] August 6, 2015 "Decreasing antibiotic resistance in bacteria"

[YouTube Lecture] September 30, 2014 "Model-based design in synthetic biology"

Research Interests:

• Biological Signal processing
• Brain-computer interface
• Human-machine interface
• Rehabilitation Engineering

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[Office of Research News] March 12, 2018 "Received Early Researcher Award" 

Research Interests:

• Clinical trial design
• Contact lens performance
• Drug delivery
• Ocular biomaterials
• Proteins at interfaces

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University Research Chair

Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:

• Long-lasting Eye Drop Delivery Platform for Targeted Ocular Delivery Applications

Research Interests:

• Micro and nano-analytical chemistry
• Micro and nano samples
• Micro-miniaturization (lab-on-a-chip)

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[YouTube] June 7, 2013 "Energy scavenging to power remote sensors"

Research Interests:

• Low-dose, low-cost x-ray imaging system (e.g. tuberculosis screening)

• Circuit technology, Photon counting circuits for biomedical imaging

• Large area digital medical imaging

• Silicon Thin-film Applied Research

• Device physics

• Amorphous semiconductors and semiconductor devices

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[Engineering News] November 12, 2018 "New X-ray technology to be tested on cancer patients"

[YouTube Lecture] September 30, 2014 "Bending the cost curve: Building a $1000 diagnostic X-ray imager for scalable and sustainable healthcare"

[Office of Research] "Paving the way for a digital X-ray and health-care revolution"

Research Interests:

• Innate immunity of amphibians
• Regulation of innate immune cell development (macrophages, neutrophils) from progenitor cell populations
• Host-pathogen-environment interactions

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Research Interests:

• Improving nutrition and health in hospitals, long term care and the community
• Dementia

Schlegel Research Chair in Nutrition & Aging

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[Grand River Hospital News] March 15, 2019 "Good food, better healing: How GRH is studying to improve food for patients in hospital"

​[Waterloo News] March 23, 2017 "Survey will reduce rates of malnutrition in hospitals"

Research Interests:

• Smart structures, actuators, biomechanics, assistive devices, human-robot interaction, wearable sensors (fitness, monitoring, fall prevention, Alzheimer's)
• Ophthalmic instrumentation, senors, technologies and hardware design (MRI, CT, ultrasound)
• Micro-energy harvester through human locomotion
• Magnetically driven medical microrobots for drug delivery and microsurgery
• Regenerative prosthetic knee, and cost-effective prosthetic leg (structural design, sensory system, and controller)
• Micromanipulation using magnetic levitation
• Auto-focusing mechanism for microscopy using electrorestrictive
• ​Clean room applications 

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[Waterloo Stories] August 28, 2018 "New sensor could help doctors monitor patient progress from a distance"

[Waterloo Stories] March 2, 2014 "Charge your phone while you shovel - and shiver"

Research Interests:

• Biomedical systems & biomechatronics - rehabilitation, assistive devices, intelligent design of prostheses and orthoses, 3D body surface measurement
• Optomechatronics - computer vision (2D and 3D), range-image registration, range-sensing, range-sensor design, vision-based 3D surface measurement systems, optical system design, laser-camera range, sensor design, phase-shifting / fringe-projection 3D surface measurement systems, real-time full-field 3D imaging sensors / real-time full-field 3D surface measurement systems, hand-held 3D imaging sensors / hand-held 3D surface measurement systems, vision-based robot control, vision-based human-robot interfaces
• Robotics - robot teleoperation, robot vision, human-robot interfaces, human-robot interaction, human-guided robot learning, vision-based robot control (visual servoing), human-assistive/service robots

Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:

• Real-Time Full-Field 3D Shape Measurement

Research Interests:

• Integrative cancer biology
• Combination of cancer treatments
• Nano-scale drug delivery
• Cancer stem cells
• Biomechanics

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[Waterloo News] June 23, 2016 "Nanotechnology and math deliver two-in-one punch for cancer therapy resistance"

[Waterloo Stories] February 11, 2015 "Study finds new lethal combination of cancer drugs shrinks tumors"

[Waterloo Stories] January 16, 2018 "Math can predict how cancer cells evolve"

Research Interests:

• Robotics, robot learning

• Humanoid robots

• Human-robot interaction

• Machine learning

• Mechatronics

• Human motion analysis (sports training, rehabilitation)

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[Waterloo News] May 18, 2017 "Technology aims to improve physiotherapy outcomes using sensors and machine learning"

[CBB researcher story] January 9, 2013 "An Improved Road to Recovery"

Research Interests:

• Musculoskeletal biomechanics related to human health and injury prevention, and the role that advanced age has on these relationships.
• Fall-related tissue trauma including hip fractures, spinal cord injuries, and traumatic brain injuries
• Workplace musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD)
• Orthopedic biomechanics

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[YouTube] Andrew Laing, Department of Kinesiology, UW

Research Interests:

• Classical and visual optics
• Optical system design, science and engineering
• Psychophysics/human factors
• Visual perception, visual optics math modelling
• Biomedical image processing

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[CBB researcher story] July 29, 2015 "Image processing to automate early glaucoma diagnosis"

Research Interests:

• Human computation (crowdsourcing)
• Human-in-the-loop intelligent systems
• Online communities and citizen science
• Large-scale collaborative planning systems
• Interaction techniques and incentive mechanisms for volunteer-based human computation systems within Science and Public Health.

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[Computer Science News] May 1, 2015 "CIHR-NSERC grant awarded to CS professor"

Research Interests:

• Integrative kidney physiology

• Biofluid dynamics

• Diabetes

• Hypertension

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March 29, 2018 "Canada 150 Research Chair joins Department of Applied Mathematics"

Research Interests:

• Production of bio-energy (electricity, H2, and CH4) and bio-chemicals from biomass

• Thermodynamic/kinetic analyses on microbial metabolisms in engineered and natural systems

• Microbial ecology in engineered biological systems

• Environmental biotechnology

• Nutrients recovery from organic waste and wastewater

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[Waterloo Stories] March 18, 2014 "Giving people a simple way to test their drinking water"

[Waterloo Stories] May 10, 2013 "Can bacteria create green energy?"

Research Interests:

• Biochemical engineering
• Protein and biomimetic engineering
• Biosensor development
• Bioprocess monitoring and soft sensor development
• Protein thermodynamics stability and analysis
• Environmental bioremediation and green bioprocesses
• Biological water treatment and membrane-based processes
• Spectroscopic techniques combined with chemometric methods for process optimization and the development of on-line sensor technology

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Research Interests:

• Biophysics of lipids and lipid-protein interactions

• The role of structural changes and physical properties of lipid template in controlling biological processes and diseases

• Biomedical nanotechnology (lipid films, molecular mechanism of Alzheimer's disease)

• Drug development and delivery systems, antimicrobial peptides in lung disorders

• Fluorescence and atomic force microscopy

• Kelvin probe force microscopy and single molecule force spectroscopy

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[Global Impact] May 2018, studying Alzheimer's at a molecular level to find a cure

[YouTube Lecture] October 1, 2014 "Scanning probe microscopy in biomedical research"

Research Interests:

• Green energy: solar cells and hydrogen generation

• Biosensing and environmental remediation using hybrid nanomaterials
• Quantum electronics
• Surface chemical physics
• Ultra-large scale computational chemistry

Research Interests:

• Design of mixed analog/digital circuits for wireless communication
• Phase noise of oscillator, mixer noise and mixer distortion analysis

Research Interests:

• Integrated microsystems for clinical and environmental monitoring

• Combining complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits with novel materials, structures, or devices to enable non-traditional life science and bio-diagnostic applications

• CMOS-integrated biochemical assays

• Semiconductor integrated circuits and sensors, design and test of 3D integrated circuits

• Micro/nano fabrication, lab-on-a-chip devices

• Electrochemical biosensors

• Electrophysiology

• DNA sequencing

• Image sensors

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Development of organic materials and nanomaterials for printed and organic optical and electronic devices

• Environmentally stable polymer semiconductors for biological and chemical sensors in applications in smart food packaging, health care devices, wearable electronics, etc.
• Polymers derived from biologically active compounds for biological and biochemical sensors
• Electrically highly conductive polymers for thermoelectrics, batteries, and solar cells
• Low-temperature processable metal nanoparticle conductive inks
• P-type and n-type high charge carrier mobility small molecules and p-conjugated polymers for organic field effect transistors, which have applications in RFIDs and displays
• Novel synthetic chemistry for conjugated polymers
• Single-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene

Design, fabrication, and characterization of organic electronics

• Chemical/biosensors​
• Organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) or organic filed effect transistors (OTFTs)
• Small molecule and polymer bulk-heterojunction photovoltaics (OPV) (solar cells)
• Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC)
• Perovskite solar cells
• Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)
• Photodiode and phototransistor based organic/polymer photodetectors

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• N-Type Organic Semiconductor Formulations, Devices

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Research Interests:

• Microfluidics and nanofluidics
• Lab-on-a-chip, diagnostic devices (biomedical, environmental, food safety)
• Interfacial Phenomena

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Research Interests:

• Bioinformatics tools (protein structures, genome mapping, conducting homology searches)

• Protein structure prediction, and automated NMR protein structure determination

• Stem cell image recognition

• Deep learning, natural language processing and automated conversation, AI

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Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics [Canada Research Chair Profile]

The Royal Society of Canada Fellow

[Waterloo Stories] April 5, 2013 "RSVP: Responding to a need"

[Waterloo Stories] July 6, 2012 "Solving life's big issues, one question at a time"

Research Interests:

• Biomedical diagnosis

• Targeted drug delivery

• Environmental monitoring

• DNA-based biosensors and functional polymers

• Nanomaterials, (gold nanoparticles, liposomes, magnetic nanoparticles, quantum dots, graphene hydrogels, hybrid nanomaterials)

• Bioinorganic / Bioanalytical chemistry

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[Waterloo Stories] February 27, 2013 "Waterloo researcher uses nano-materials to clean water"

Research Interests:

• Biochemistry and enzymology

• Thermostable Biocatalyst and dehydrogenases (Biofuel/Bioethanol production, pharmaceutical and other industrial processes)

• Enzyme evolution and protein engineering, microbial physiology, molecular biology

• Sulfur reduction and energy metabolism, alcohol metabolism

• Electron transfer and flavoproteins.

• Proteins purification and analysis, metal-containing
• Fermentation
• Hyperthermophiles

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• Novel Thermostable Biocatalyst

Research Interests:

• Static mixer and microreactor technology
• Polymer reaction engineering and polymer processing
• Waste minimization and green engineering

• Micro Process Systems Engineering - Design and Operation of Microfluidic reactors for efficient synthesis of biodiesel and complex copolymers.

• Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming and Global Optimization Algorithms.

• Modeling and Optimal Control for Complex Biochemical Reaction Systems.

• Applied Statistics- Modeling, Design of Experiments, Parameter Estimation

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Research Interests:

• Medical device and diagnostic development for hearing and hearing loss
• Audiology and Otolaryngology
• Acoustic, Vibration, physiological and cadaveric measurements, animal models
• Aging, Biomechanics

Research Interests:

• High Resolution flexible pressure and tactile sensors

• Microbial fuel cells

• Nano electrodes for electrochemical detection

• Flexible Electrodes for bio-interfacing, electrical mapping self-powered devices

• Cell-inorganic composites
• Multi-functional materials and devices
• Wearable sensors
• Composite membranes

Research Interests

• Knee biomechanics
• Osteoarthritis
• Clinical outcomes
• Mobility
• Exercise
• Muscle
• Imaging and disability

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Research Interests:

• Protein structure, functions, evolution (yeast, mammalian cell lines, plant-bacterial)

• Bioinformatics, systematics and protein evolution

• Protein structure and interaction modeling
• Protein expression pattern analysis
• Molecular genetics

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Research Interests:

• Neuroscience and neurological disorders
• Balance, gait, exercise
• Aging
• Understanding how the brain and other parts of the central nervous system control movements of the body
• Using advanced measurements systems to improve recovery time after a neurological injury (such as a stroke) and minimize age-related effects on movement control (such as reducing the risk of falling). 
• Electroencephalography and electromyography
• Transcranial magnetic stimulation, magnetic resonance imaging, peripheral nerve stimulation
• Galvanic skin measurement
• Eye-tracker, motion analysis, and kinetic measurement

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[Waterloo News] August 19, 2015 "Wearable technologies will improve stroke rehabilitation"

[Waterloo Stories] February 4, 2014 "Finding your way after a stroke"

Research Interests:

• Health informatics

• Information management - financial and healthcare (data standards, security and privacy of health information, data quality, performance management issues)

• Systems to support decision-making

• Design and use of health information systems

• Cost and performance measurement of health services

Research interests:

• Medical devices relating to orthopaedic surgery
• Aging, biomechanics, personalized medicine, virtual reality, wearable devices, surgical navigation
• 3D printing/additive manufacturing, actuators, computational modelling, imaging, medical devices

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Research Interests:

• Biomechanics engineering (injury rehabilitation, assistive devices for elderly, athletes, disabled)

• Mechatronic and robotic systems

• Multibody system dynamics

• Computational methods for analysis and design

• Advanced vehicle systems

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Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics [Canada Research Chair Profile]

NSERC/Toyota/Maplesoft Industrial Research Chair in Mathematics-Based Modelling and Design [NSERC Profile]

[Waterloo Stories] February 20, 2019 "Engineering innovation for wheelchair curlers"

[Waterloo Stories] August 5, 2016 "Rio Olympics 2016: Engineering speed for the Canadian track cycling team"

[Waterloo Stories] June 17, 2015 "Waterloo’s $10M dream facility for smarter, greener cars"

Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:

• Vehicle Rollover Control using Pulsed Active Steering Control Strategy

Research Interests:

• Proteins: energetics, kinetics, mechanisms, structure, dynamics, folding, function, evolution, engineering and design, thermodynamics, kinetics (ALS, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, prions, cancer)

• High resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (fluorescence, CD, NMR, FTIR, DLS)

• Optical spectroscopies

• Bioinformatics and computational modelling

• Biocomputing and protein engineering

• Biophysical chemistry and biochemistry
• Bionanotechnology and biomaterials

​[Waterloo News] November 24, 2015 "New insights into protein structure could change the future of biomedicine"

[​Chemistry News] August 20, 2014 "Chemist Elizabeth Meiering takes on the ALS ice bucket challenge"

Research Interests:

• Polymer Science and Engineering
• Renewable polymers: Processing and Chemical Modifications
• Polymer blends, composites and nanocomposites

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Research interests: 

• Neurobiological embedding of adversity
• Biological characteristics that influence outcome from brain injury
• Drug development, biomarkers
• Stroke; biological characteristics that influence outcomes from brain injury

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Research Interests:

• Gene expression and enzyme activities of plant development
• Roles of adenosine kinase (ADK) in plants
• Molecular genetics
• Agricultural sciences

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• Biopharmaceuticals (therapeutics, treatment of autoimmune diseases, prevent rejection of organ transplants)

• Industrial biomanufacturing and biotechnology (fermentation, food ingredients, enzymes, biofuels)

• Environmental management (bioremediation of carcinogenic environmental pollutants, filtration, chromatography)

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[YouTube Lecture] September 29, 2014 "Biofuels and Waste Treatment"

[YouTube Lecture] September 19, 2013 "Industrial Biotechnology: Current developments and trends"

[UW Eng-e-news] August 14, 2013 "Engineering Life-enhancing research"

[Waterloo Stories] May 3, 2013 "Can bacteria help create a cheaper fuel for our cars?"

[CBB researcher story] December 6, 2012 "Bringing Bioengineering and Biotechnology to its Fullest Potential"

Research Interests:

• Membrane filtration process (microfiltration; ultrafiltration; nanofiltration; reverse osmosis)

• Food proteins, processes, sustainability (concentration; separation; fractionation, water and waste minimization)

• Protein recovery and purification

• Enzyme reaction engineering

• Health food product development and processing

• Thermal food processes (baking; drying; ultra-high temperature; pasteurization; sterilization)

• Diffusion transport in biomaterials and polymeric films

Research Interests:

• mHealth and wearable technology design
• Ubiquitous sensors for smart homes and remote patient monitoring
• Big data and health data analytics
• Technology to support longer independent living

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[MaRS] April 26, 2018 "UbiLab team wins Healthy Behaviour Data Challenge"

Research Interests:

• Social-ecological sustainability
• Sustainable agriculture
• Restoration and conservation ecology
• Policy analysis

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[Waterloo News] March 16, 2015 "Expert: Parties need to consider bigger picture for Rouge National Urban Park"

Research Interests:

• Point-of-care diagnostic systems and monitoring (healthcare, wearable technology, sensors and devices)

• Biosensors - Protein sensor for Heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) and point-of-care medical diagnostics (biomarkers)

• Hybrid and electric vehicles (lithium ion batteries, power management, energy storage, sensors)

• Micro-electromechanical systems/nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) for harsh environments (automotive, aerospace, turbomachinery, oil-well/logging, nuclear power, communications)

• MEMS/NEMS, nanomaterials, biosensors, devices, biomanipulators, biosystems, packaging, microassembly

• Micropower generation, microfabrication, self-contained integrated microsystems

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[Waterloo Stories] July 5, 2012 "A tiny machine to predict heart attacks"

[Waterloo Engineering] April, 2015 "Tiny technology to prevent the risk of skipping a beat or worse"

Research Interests:

• Neural networks and neural learning algorithms
• Dynamical systems and scientific computing
• Computational neuroscience

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[CBB researcher story] July 20, 2015 "Computational Perception: How a brain understands its environment"

Research Interests:

• Biological fluid dynamics, fluid/structure interaction, vortex dynamics, diagnostic methods

• Energy harvesting

• Cardiovascular and mechanical blood flow models

• Human phonation, vocal fold modeling

• Stent modeling and design

• Biomimetic propulsors

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[CBB researcher story] January 8, 2013 "The Ability to be Heard Above the Crowd"

Research Interests:

• Application of intelligent systems (hydrology, water resources, decision making in health, control of satellite communications, fault detection analysis)

• Optimization
• Mathematical programming, decision making under uncertainty
• Data mining

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Research Interests:

• Flexible, wearable energy storage and sensing technologies
• Graphene production and post-processing techniques
• Directed assembly of 2D nanomaterials at the air-water interface
• Bottom-up assembly approaches for energy storage, sensing and electrocatalysis
• Supercapacitors
• Next generation batteries
• Electrochemical sensors
• ​Thin films and membranes
• Nano-materials

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• Film Forming Process

Research Interests:

• Machine learning and reasoning under uncertainty (artificial intelligence, computational statistics, decision and control theory)

• Health informatics (assistive technologies, behaviour recognition, smart walkers, Alzheimer’s monitoring)

• Natural language understanding (dialogue management, semantic analysis)

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[National Post] May 11, 2018, weighs in on how Google's A.I. personal assistant sparks concerns about future of communication

[The Record] May 8,2018, have ties with a new Montreal sports analytics research lab in Kitchener

[Markets Insider] February 5, 2018 "Borealis AI increases brain power by adding top AI talent"

[The Globe and Mail] February 4, 2018 "How we can leverage AI to bridge academia and business"

[Waterloo Stories] April 12, 2013 "Breaking the fall: Smart walker will help prevent injuries"

Research Interests:

• Sea water desalination, hydrogen production for fuel cells, CO2 recovery from fossil fuel power plants

• Membrane processes, catalysis, organic or inorganic nanoparticles

• Porous materials, materials and sol-gel integrative chemistry

• Nanostructures and superlattices

• Sustainable processes

• Microemulsions

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[YouTube Lecture] September 29, 2014 "Biofuels and Waste Management"

Research Interests:

• Biomedical applications of electromagnetics

• Electromagnetic compatibility, interference, propagation mechanisms

• Material measurements, metamaterials and its engineering applications

• Energy harvesting

• Surface and subsurface detection using near-field microscopy

• Electronic packaging

• Photonics

• Radiating systems, theoretical and computational electromagnetics

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Research Interests:

• Drug discovery
• Rational drug design and medicinal chemistry
• Cancer therapy
• Treatment of neurological disorders (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's)
• Drug discovery/rational design
• Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel organic molecules and peptides/peptidomimics as therapeutic agents

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[Science News] October 22, 2018 "Nekkar lab determines that depression medications can help treat Alzheimer’s disease"

​[Pharmacy News] July 29, 2015 "Waterloo pharmacist examines drug therapies for Alzheimer’s disease"

Research Interests:

• Molecular genetics

• Cell and Developmental Biology

• Stem Cell Biology & Cellular Differentiation
• Programmed Cell Death
• Live-Imaging Microscopy

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Research Interests:

• Protein and DNA separation analysis towards disease diagnosis and drug discovery

• Biosensing and Devices (bacterial, proteins, fluorescence)

• Living cell analysis and water toxicity testing

• Lab-on-a-Chip technology (point-of-care biomedical diagnosis , chemical detection, protein separation and identification, environmental testing)

• Micro-scale fluid mechanics, droplet microfluidics and nanofluidics

• High Throughput Screening For Drug Screening
• Manufacturing Nanomaterials and Carbon Management

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Canada Research Chair in Lab-on-a-Chip Technology [Canada Research Chair Profile]

[Waterloo Stories] June 14, 2012 "Creating the tiny future of science"

Research Interests

• Early Cancer Detection
• Eliminating Positive Surgical Margins
• Non-contact Biopsies for Endoscopy 
• Functional Brain Imaging 
• Early Detection and Understanding the Age-related Vision Loss Problems. 

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Research Interests:

• Protein structure, functions, and pharmaceuticals
• Type II Diabetes
• Bioinformatics, Systematics, and Evolution
• Molecular Genetics
• Microbiology

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[YouTube Lecture] September 30, 2015 "Glycosidases in human health and disease"

Research Interests:

• Flexible and wearable electronics

• Displays (television, cell phone, and computer)

• Solid-state lighting

• Digital circuit design for low power, low voltage applications

• High performance mixed-signal circuit design

• Robust design practices for VLSI

• VLSI testing and design for testability techniques for current and logic testing

• VLSI quality, reliability and yield improvement techniques

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Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:

• LED Driver Circuit with Threshold Voltage Compensation

Research Interests:

• Biotechnologies (sensors, mobile health, biomedical instrumentation, DNA sequencing, pharmaceutical analysis, skin cancer screening, energy harvesting, environmental monitoring)

• Wireless communication systems (RF technologies, antenna, and propagation modelling)

• Emerging RF/Microwave/Millimeter Wave/THz systems, devices, and novel electromagnetic materials

• Computational electromagnetics and photonics

NSERC Research In Motion Industrial Research Chair in Wireless Communications [NSERC Profile]

[Waterloo Record] July 3,2018, highlights the Anechoic chamber in the Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS)

[Waterloo News]  June 28, 2018 "AI and radar technologies could help diabetics manage their disease"

[Engineering News] June 28, 2018 "Researchers developing a prick-free glucose monitor"

[RD Magazine] June 28, 2018 "AI and Radar Technologies Could Help Diabetics Manage Their Disease" 

[Waterloo New] [Engineering News] May 22, 2018, Electrical and Computer Engineering,  $12 million awarded to Waterloo researchers

[Waterloo Stories] January 20, 2017 "Smart antennas could “make the world a better place”

[Waterloo News] June 22, 2016 "Developed in Waterloo, now orbiting in space"

[Waterloo Stories] September 13, 2013 "Waterloo opens world-class facility"

[CBB researcher story] December 7, 2012 "Improving Healthcare with Electromagnetic Waves"