Our People - Wearable Devices

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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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:

• Discovering biomechanical determinants of occupational performance

• Advancing functional capacity evaluation

• Advancing digital human modeling

• Inform better, safer products 

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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

• 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:

• 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:

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

Schlegel Research Chair in Vascular Aging & Brain Health

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[Global Impact] April 2019 "A “Second Heart” to strengthen our golden years" 

[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:

• 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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Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:

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

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:

• 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:

• 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:

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

​Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:

• N-Type Organic Semiconductor Formulations, Devices

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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:

• 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:

• 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:

•  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:

• 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:

• 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"

[National Centre for Biotechnology Information] August 31, 2019 "Key factors for the assessment of mobility in advanced dementia: A consensus approach"

[Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative] September 26, 2019 "Wearable technologies to improve health outcomes in people with neurodegenerative diseases?"

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:

• 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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Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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:

• Energy harvesting using smart materials (medical implants, magnetostrictive materials and piezoelectrics)

• Structural Dynamics

• Wind turbines vibrations reduction for the non-audible frequency range

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[Waterloo Stories] December 2, 2013 "Smart tech for medical implants"

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:

• Electrophysiological characterization of neuromuscular disorders

• Autonomous and knowledge systems

• Machine perception and sensors

• Image processing and analysis, pattern analysis and recognition

• EMG signal decomposition, simulation and quantitative EMG and DQEMG

• Biomedical engineering

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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:

• MEMS/NEMS

• Nanodevices and carbon nanotube-based sensors for biomedical applications (early disease detection)

• Microassembly and micromirror devices for genetic microarray reading and tissue imaging

• Lab-on-a-chip designs

Canada Research Chair in Micro and NanoDevices [Canada Research Chair Profile]

Research Interests:

• Bionanomaterials and “soft” interfaces

• Biomimetic adhesion, bio-integrated devices

• Nanoparticles synthesis, functionalization and dispersion, nanocomposites

• Polymers, interfacial phenomena and surface chemistry

• Advanced coating and adhesive bonding technology

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[Waterloo Stories] December 16, 2016 "New Gecko Gripper can be used in manufacturing and medicine"

[YouTube Video] June 11, 2015 "Zebra Mussel-inspired Electrically Conductive Polymer Nanofiber"

[Waterloo Stories] September 16, 2013 "Waterloo researcher is developing nano-glue for electronics"

Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:

• Underwater "Superglue"