Arash Arami

Research Interests:
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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
Duane Cronin

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

Research Interests:
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Machining of Tissue-Engineered Bone Implants
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Biomanufacturing
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Precision motion control (high speed machine tools, robots, and electronic/semiconductor manufacturing equipment)
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Modeling and identification
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Optimal trajectory planning
[Engineering News] October 19, 2016 "Researchers join advanced manufacturing network"
Shahrzad Esmaeili

Research Interests:
- Biomaterials: emerging metallic and hybrid-cellular materials and nanostructured surfaces
- Advanced multi-functional materials and surface modification of metals and alloys
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Processing, characterization and properties of fine-grained, ultrafine-grained and nanostructured alloys
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Microstructural characterization, modeling and thermo-mechanical processing of light alloy processing
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Phase transformations in advanced light alloys
Emmanuel Ho

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
[Waterloo News] February 6, 2019 "Researchers find new treatment for Chlamydia"
[Waterloo News] April 16, 2018 "Developing new way to fight transmission of HIV"
John Honek

Research Interests:
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Methionine chemistry and biochemestry (amino acid methionine and its roles in proteins, cellular pathways and its functions)
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Bionanomaterials, bionanotechnology (for novel drug carriers, molecular foundations for nanodevices)
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Medicinal chemistry
- Enzymology
- Bioorganic chemistry
- Protein structure and function
[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners
Heather Keller

Research Interests:
- Improving nutrition and health in hospitals, long term care and the community
- Dementia
Schlegel Research Chair in Nutrition & Aging
[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"
Jonathan Kofman

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:
Yuning Li

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:
Nima Maftoon

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
Vivek Maheshwari

Research Interests:
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High Resolution flexible pressure and tactile sensors
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Microbial fuel cells
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Nano electrodes for electrochemical detection
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Flexible Electrodes for bio-interfacing, electrical mapping self-powered devices
- Cell-inorganic composites
- Multi-functional materials and devices
- Wearable sensors
- Composite membranes
Stewart McLachlin

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
Tizazu Mekonnen

Research Interests:
- Polymer Science and Engineering
- Renewable polymers: Processing and Chemical Modifications
- Polymer blends, composites and nanocomposites
Plinio Morita

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

Research Interests:
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Protein and DNA separation analysis towards disease diagnosis and drug discovery
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Biosensing and Devices (bacterial, proteins, fluorescence)
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Living cell analysis and water toxicity testing
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Lab-on-a-Chip technology (point-of-care biomedical diagnosis , chemical detection, protein separation and identification, environmental testing)
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Micro-scale fluid mechanics, droplet microfluidics and nanofluidics
- High Throughput Screening For Drug Screening
- Manufacturing Nanomaterials and Carbon Management
Canada Research Chair in Lab-on-a-Chip Technology [Canada Research Chair Profile]
[Waterloo Stories] June 14, 2012 "Creating the tiny future of science"
Oliver Schneider

Research Interests
- Virtual Reality
- Wearables Devices
- Computer Human Interaction, haptics, design
- Data Science
- Mental Health
- Nutritional Science
[YouTube] October 11, 2018 "DualPanto: A Haptic Device that Enables Blind Users to Continuously Interact with Virtual Worlds"
George Shaker

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
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"
Michael Tam

Research Interests:
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Enhanced drug delivery systems, gene therapy
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Associative polymers for environmentally friendly coatings
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Sustainable nanomaterials (cellulose nanocrystals)
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Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) and stimuli responsive polymeric systems
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Polymer-surfactant interactions
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Magnetic nanoparticles for novel separation processes
University Research Chair
Ehsan Toyserkani

Research Interests:
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Tissue engineering and biodegradable implants for regenerative medicine (3D printing)
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Bio-additive and microscale-additive manufacturing (opto-mechanical sensors, smart structures, developed through additive manufacturing)
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Novel multi-scale additive manufacturing technologies for biomedical, oil/gas and manufacturing sectors
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Laser-based fabrication techniques with particular focus on direct write processes in micro- and macro-scale
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Modeling, sensing and real-time control of laser-based manufacturing techniques
University Research Chair
Canada Research Chair in Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing [Canada Research Chair Profile]
[Office of Research News] May 8,2018 "Waterloo researchers named Canada Research Chairs"
[YouTube Lecture] May 6, 2014 "Additive manufacturing"
Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:
Thomas Willett

Research Interests:
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Biomaterials and mechanics of biomaterials and tissues
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Bone quality and fragility, collagen
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Engineering of bone mimetic materials for skeletal reconstruction (3D printing)