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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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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:

• Discovering biomechanical determinants of occupational performance

• Advancing functional capacity evaluation

• Advancing digital human modeling

• Inform better, safer products 

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[Science Direct] August 10, 2018 "Revealing the atomistic details behind the binding of B7–1 to CD28 and CTLA-4: A comprehensive protein-protein modelling study"

[Nature] August 27, 2019 "Comprehensive in vitro characterization of PD-L1 small molecule inhibitors"

Research Interests:

• Robotics
• Collaborative robots
• Human-robot interaction
• Human Motion Analysis
• Humanoid Robots
• Optimal control

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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:

• Developing more realistic methods to evaluate hearing assistive devices (e.g. hearing aids)
• Improving the naturalness of human/robot speech interaction
• Aging
• Balance/Motor Control/Biomechanics
• Virtual Reality
• Wearables Devices
• Audiology/Hearing Science

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Research interests:

• Aging and neurodegeneration
• Movement disorders
• Gait kinematics
• Neuropsychology and neurocognitive assessment
• Mood, emotion and cognition
• Fear, threat, anxiety and depression
• Virtual reality

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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:

• Identifying interventions to promote well-being of people with, and those at risk for, dementia
• Co-design of technologies, programs, and services with people living with dementia, care partners, and other stakeholders, with a focus on physical activity and other lifestyle strategies
• Co-development of professional development programs for health and community service providers to promote quality and accessibility of health and wellness programs and services for persons living with dementia
• Integration of virtual programs, including virtual reality, to promote physical activity and healthy living

Research Interests:

•  design and control of spinal exoskeletons for he prevention of back pain
•  development of assistive robotic devices to increase mobility of older person
•  design studies of lower limb exoskeletons

Research Interests:

• Simulation & Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality
• Novice And Older Driver Training
• Predictive & Conceptual Modeling Of Behavior
• Eye Tracking
• Attention & Cognition
• Perception
• Decision Making
• Aging
• Automotive Human Factors
• Autonomous Vehicles And Connected Vehicles & Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Caregiver Behaviors & Errors
• Assistive & Automotive Interfaces
• Vulnerable Road User Safety (Pedestrians & Bicyclists)
• Motorcyclist Safety
• Special Populations (ADHD & Dementia)
• Traffic Control Devices & Roadway Infrastructure Design

Research Interests

• Virtual Reality
• Wearables Devices
• Computer Human Interaction, haptics, design
• Data Science
• Mental Health
• Nutritional Science

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[YouTube] October 11, 2018 "DualPanto: A Haptic Device that Enables Blind Users to Continuously Interact with Virtual Worlds"

Alternate Location:

• Satellite Campus, UW-Schlegel Research Institute for Aging, Research Building, Sensors and Devices Lab

Research Interests:

• Bio-wearable electronics and systems
• Bio-electromagnetics, bio-technology, bio-sensors and energy harvesting systems
• RF/microwave/millimeter wave/Terahertz (THz) circuits and antenna systems
• Radio frequency (RF)/microwave packaging and Electromagnetic compatibility 
• (EMC)/Electromagnetic interface (EMI) analyses
• Vehicle and UAV wireless communications, navigation systems, and telematics systems
• Complex propagation and scattering phenomena
• Devices and novel electromagnetic materials and wireless sensors

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Awards:

• Top downloaded paper in Medical Physics (arXiv) – October 2019
• Best Imaging Paper, CVS, 2018
• ACM MobileHCI 2017 Best Worskshop Paper Award
• IEEE APS 2017 SPC Honorable Mention Paper Award
• IEEE Sensors Most Popular Article (March 2017)
• IEEE Sensors Annual Volume Cover Page

[CBB Events] November 15, 2019 "Professor Shaker organizes a Health Canada Regulatory insights Workshop"

[CNN] November 11, 2019 "Scientists develop sensor to save children and pets from hot car deaths"

[Waterloo News] October 29, 2019 "Advancing healthcare through innovative technology"

[Inside Digital Health] June 3, 2019 "Study: Radar Monitors Sleep with Accuracy Comparable to Current Standards"

[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" 

[Engineering News] July 5, 2016 "Waterloo wins big with tiny power device"

Research Interests:

• Rehabilitation engineering and assistive technologies (gerontology, Osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease, fall risk in stroke survivors, and rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury)

• Neuromotor control

• Biomedical signal analysis

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[Waterloo Stories] July 8, 2014 "GPS technology may help detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier"

Research Interests:

• Image and signal processing, coding and quality assessment
• Computational vision and pattern analysis
• Multimedia communications
• Biomedical signal and image processing

The Royal Society of Canada Fellow

University Research Chair

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[Waterloo News] October 5, 2015 "Waterloo Engineer wins Emmy Award"

[Waterloo Stories] February 3, 2014 "Engineering professor awarded prestigious fellowship"

Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:

• High Performance Video Compression

Research interests:

• Vision rehabilitation
• Systems for optimizing patient care outcomes
• Retinal disease
• Pharmacology.