Eihab Abdel-Rahman

Research Interests:
- Dynamics and control of MEMS
- Design of MEMS devices
- Micro-power generation
- Multi-body dynamics and control
- Biomechanics
Bill Anderson

Research Interests:
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Pathogen detection, disinfection and sterilization using UV light
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Photochemistry, photocatalytic applications to water and air treatment
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Environmental engineering
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Biotechnology, biofiltration
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Metal nanoparticle synthesis and applications
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Process modelling and simulation
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
Chris Backhouse

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
Michael Barnett-Cowan

Research Interests:
- Multisensory integration
- Perception and action
- Psychophysics
- The vestibular system
- Virtual reality
[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"
Jonathan Baugh

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
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Infrared imaging technology
[Waterloo Stories] September 29, 2013 "Waterloo researcher loves the hands-on side of quantum science"
Jennifer Boger

Research Interests:
- Intelligent technology
- Ambient assisted living
- Zero-effort technology
- Aging, health, and wellbeing
- Assistive Technology
Schlegel Research Chair in Technology for Independent Living
Hector Budman

Research Interests:
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Chemical process control - Robust control, Nonlinear control, Model Predictive Control (MPC)
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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
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Monitoring/Fault Detection of chemical and biological/biotechnological processes - Multivariate statistical methods for monitoring and fault detection, Inferential (soft) sensors
Pu Chen

Research Interests:
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Nano-Biomedical engineering, biochemistry, molecular cell biology
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Colloid and Surface Science (surface chemistry, absorption kinetics, thermodynamics)
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Polymer materials, CO2
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Energy storage and conversion, battery systems and alternative energy
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Drug and gene delivery, genomics
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Lipid bilayer and cell membrane actions
University Research Chair
David Clausi

Research Interests:
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Biomedical and scientific imaging
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Computer vision and video analysis
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Image processing, segmentation/classification
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Multiresolution techniques
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Automated interpretation of SAR (synthetic aperture radar)
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Remote sensing
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Stochastic models
[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
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"
Baris Fidan

Research Interests:
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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
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Control applications (high performance flight and vehicle stability control, biomedical)
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Robotics and intelligent systems (multi-agent, motion planning, vision control, biomedical and assistive robotics)
Steve Fischer

Research Interests:
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Discovering biomechanical determinants of occupational performance
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Advancing functional capacity evaluation
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Advancing digital human modeling
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Inform better, safer products
Peter Hall

Research interests:
- Brain Health
- Social neuroscience of eating
- Social neuroscience of addictions and mental health
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Mobile brain imaging technology
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Neuromodulation techniques
Ehsan Hashemi

Research Interests
- Control system development for Driver Assistance Systems
- Fault-tolerant state estimation for biped robots
- Distributed Estimation
- Control Theory
- Multibody Dynamics
Jesse Hoey

Research Interests:
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Assistive technology (physical, cognitive disabilities, dementia)
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Health informatics
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Artificial intelligence
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Computational social science
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Affective computing, computer vision
[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"
Richard Hughson

Research Interests:
- Vascular aging and brain health
- Space physiology research
- Cardiovascular adaptation to exercise
Schlegel Research Chair in Vascular Aging & Brain Health
[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"
Jan Huissoon

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
Lyndon Jones

Research Interests:
- Clinical trial design
- Contact lens performance
- Drug delivery
- Ocular biomaterials
- Proteins at interfaces
University Research Chair
Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:
Karim Sallaudin Karim

Research Interests:
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Low-dose, low-cost x-ray imaging system (e.g. tuberculosis screening)
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Circuit technology, Photon counting circuits for biomedical imaging
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Large area digital medical imaging
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Silicon Thin-film Applied Research
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Device physics
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Amorphous semiconductors and semiconductor devices
[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"
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"
Behrad Khamesee

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
[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"
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:
Dana Kulic

Research Interests:
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Robotics, robot learning
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Humanoid robots
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Human-robot interaction
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Machine learning
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Mechatronics
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Human motion analysis (sports training, rehabilitation)
[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"
Raymond Legge

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
Zoya Leonenko

Research Interests:
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Biophysics of lipids and lipid-protein interactions
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The role of structural changes and physical properties of lipid template in controlling biological processes and diseases
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Biomedical nanotechnology (lipid films, molecular mechanism of Alzheimer's disease)
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Drug development and delivery systems, antimicrobial peptides in lung disorders
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Fluorescence and atomic force microscopy
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Kelvin probe force microscopy and single molecule force spectroscopy
[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"
Peter Levine

Research Interests:
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Integrated microsystems for clinical and environmental monitoring
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Combining complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits with novel materials, structures, or devices to enable non-traditional life science and bio-diagnostic applications
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CMOS-integrated biochemical assays
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Semiconductor integrated circuits and sensors, design and test of 3D integrated circuits
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Micro/nano fabrication, lab-on-a-chip devices
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Electrochemical biosensors
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Electrophysiology
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DNA sequencing
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Image sensors
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:
Juewen Liu

Research Interests:
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Biomedical diagnosis
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Targeted drug delivery
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Environmental monitoring
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DNA-based biosensors and functional polymers
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Nanomaterials, (gold nanoparticles, liposomes, magnetic nanoparticles, quantum dots, graphene hydrogels, hybrid nanomaterials)
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Bioinorganic / Bioanalytical chemistry
University Research Chair
[Waterloo Stories] February 27, 2013 "Waterloo researcher uses nano-materials to clean water"
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
Kaylena Ehgoetz Martens

Bill McIlroy

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
[Waterloo News] August 19, 2015 "Wearable technologies will improve stroke rehabilitation"
[Waterloo Stories] February 4, 2014 "Finding your way after a stroke"
Katja Mombaur

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
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"
Sheva Naahidi

Research Interests:
- Bio inspired solar cell technology
- Targeted drug delivery
- Bio compatibility
- Tissue engineering
- Cardiovascular
- Industrial biotechnology
- Sensors
- Polymers
Patricia Nieva

Research Interests:
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Point-of-care diagnostic systems and monitoring (healthcare, wearable technology, sensors and devices)
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Biosensors - Protein sensor for Heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) and point-of-care medical diagnostics (biomarkers)
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Hybrid and electric vehicles (lithium ion batteries, power management, energy storage, sensors)
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Micro-electromechanical systems/nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) for harsh environments (automotive, aerospace, turbomachinery, oil-well/logging, nuclear power, communications)
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MEMS/NEMS, nanomaterials, biosensors, devices, biomanipulators, biosystems, packaging, microassembly
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Micropower generation, microfabrication, self-contained integrated microsystems
[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"
Karen Van Ooteghem

[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?"
Sean Peterson

Research Interests:
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Biological fluid dynamics, fluid/structure interaction, vortex dynamics, diagnostic methods
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Energy harvesting
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Cardiovascular and mechanical blood flow models
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Human phonation, vocal fold modeling
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Stent modeling and design
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Biomimetic propulsors
[CBB researcher story] January 8, 2013 "The Ability to be Heard Above the Crowd"
Michael Pope

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
Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:
Mahla Poudineh

Omar Ramahi

Research Interests:
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Biomedical applications of electromagnetics
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Electromagnetic compatibility, interference, propagation mechanisms
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Material measurements, metamaterials and its engineering applications
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Energy harvesting
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Surface and subsurface detection using near-field microscopy
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Electronic packaging
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Photonics
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Radiating systems, theoretical and computational electromagnetics
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"
Parsin Haji Reza

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
- Wound Care
- Cardiovascular
- Machine learning/AI
[Linkedin]
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

Research Interests:
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Biotechnologies (sensors, mobile health, biomedical instrumentation, DNA sequencing, pharmaceutical analysis, skin cancer screening, energy harvesting, environmental monitoring)
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Wireless communication systems (RF technologies, antenna, and propagation modelling)
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Emerging RF/Microwave/Millimeter Wave/THz systems, devices, and novel electromagnetic materials
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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"
Armaghan Salehian

Research Interests:
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Energy harvesting using smart materials (medical implants, magnetostrictive materials and piezoelectrics)
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Structural Dynamics
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Wind turbines vibrations reduction for the non-audible frequency range
[Waterloo Stories] December 2, 2013 "Smart tech for medical implants"
Siby Samuel

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
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"
Daniel Stashuk

Research Interests:
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Electrophysiological characterization of neuromuscular disorders
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Autonomous and knowledge systems
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Machine perception and sensors
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Image processing and analysis, pattern analysis and recognition
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EMG signal decomposition, simulation and quantitative EMG and DQEMG
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Biomedical engineering
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
Shirley Tang

Research Interests:
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Nanomaterials, nanodevices, biosensors for applications in food processing, bioreactors and biotechnology, natural gas purification, fuel cell, and water purification
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Nano-Bio Hybrids for Tissue Engineering and Medicine for drug delivery, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
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Bio-molecule assisted nanomaterial self-assembly
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Health and environmental effects of engineered nanomaterials
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:
James Tung

Research Interests:
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Rehabilitation engineering and assistive technologies (gerontology, Osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease, fall risk in stroke survivors, and rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury)
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Neuromotor control
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Biomedical signal analysis
[Waterloo Stories] July 8, 2014 "GPS technology may help detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier"
Alex Wong

Research Interests:
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Biomedical image processing and analysis (prostate, breast, lung and dermatological cancer analysis, retinal photoreceptor and blood vessel analysis, musculoskeletal kinematic analysis
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Remote sensing data processing and analysis (sea ice, underwater object, oil spill analysis)
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Perceptual based video and image processing (noise reduction, compression, enhancement)
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Computer vision and pattern recognition
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Multimedia management systems
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3D graphics and game development
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Cognitive radio networks
Canada Research Chair in Medical Imaging Systems [Canada Research Chair Profile]
[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners
[Waterloo News] [CBC News] [Gadgets] May 16, 2018, Co-authors discuss the use of aerobic fitness data from wearable tech to predict illness
[Waterloo News] May 15, 2018 "Researchers combine wearable technology and AI to predict the onset of health problems"
[Global Impact] [570 news] [Youtube] April 11, 2018 "How AI is helping doctors diagnose Cancer"
[The Star] February 9, 2018 "How TheRedPin aims to take a swipe at the real estate industry"
[Waterloo News] June 7, 2017 "Artificial intelligence-driven imaging research makes diagnosing disease easier"
[Waterloo Stories] January 28, 2017 "Artificial intelligence and the Waterloo-Toronto tech supercluster"
[Waterloo Stories] May 20, 2016 "Breakthrough tech helps doctors more accurately diagnose cancer"
[CBB researcher story] January 9, 2013 "Improving Early Diagnosis to Save Lives"
[Waterloo Stories] January 9, 2013 "Making it harder for cancer to hide"
[YouTube Lecture] October 1, 2014 "Integrative systems for biomedical imaging and analysis"
John Yeow

Research Interests:
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MEMS/NEMS
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Nanodevices and carbon nanotube-based sensors for biomedical applications (early disease detection)
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Microassembly and micromirror devices for genetic microarray reading and tissue imaging
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Lab-on-a-chip designs
Canada Research Chair in Micro and NanoDevices [Canada Research Chair Profile]