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
Gladimir Baranoski

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)
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"
Philip Beesley

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.
[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"
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
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
Don Cowan

Research Interests:
- Web-based systems and applications (software engineering, applications, open data)
- Software engineering for enterprise management systems (business, government, environment, health)
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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
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"
Mohamed Oussama Damen

Research Interests:
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Coding theory
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Cross-layer optimization
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Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and space-time communications
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Multiuser detection
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Optical communications
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Wireless Communications
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Interface management
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)
Paul Fieguth

Research Interests:
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Computer vision, signal and image processing
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Remote sensing
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Intelligent systems and software
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Multiscale statistical modeling
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Societal and environmental systems
[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners
Moojan Ghafurian

Media:
[Waterloo Stories] August 31, 2020 "Pandemic isolation increases acceptance of robot companions"
[Waterloo Chronicle] August 31, 2020 "People are now willing to accept social robots as companions due to COVID-19 isolation: University of Waterloo study"
[Cheriton School of Computer Science News] August 29, 2019 "Moojan Ghafurian, Kerstin Dautenhahn and Jesse Hoey awarded funding to develop emotionally intelligent robots to help people with dementia"
[ACM Technews] May 21, 2019 "Making AI More Human"
[Semiconductor Engineering] May 28, 2019 "Crocheted robots; humanizing AI agents; training autonomous control systems"
[Cheriton School of Computer Science News] May 21, 2019 "Moojan Ghafurian, Neil Budnarain and Jesse Hoey make AI more human"
[Therapy Toronto News] October 22, 2018 "Study suggests faster countdowns may make people more patient"
[Education News Canada] May 22, 2019 "Making AI more human is key to widespread acceptance"
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"
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:
Edith Law

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

Research Interests:
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Integrative kidney physiology
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Biofluid dynamics
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Diabetes
- Hypertension
March 29, 2018 "Canada 150 Research Chair joins Department of Applied Mathematics"
Ming Li

Research Interests:
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Bioinformatics tools (protein structures, genome mapping, conducting homology searches)
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Protein structure prediction, and automated NMR protein structure determination
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Stem cell image recognition
- Deep learning, natural language processing and automated conversation, AI
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"
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
Kaylena Ehgoetz Martens

Ian McKillop

Research Interests:
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Health informatics
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Information management - financial and healthcare (data standards, security and privacy of health information, data quality, performance management issues)
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Systems to support decision-making
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Design and use of health information systems
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Cost and performance measurement of health services
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"
Jeff Orchard

Research Interests:
- Neural networks and neural learning algorithms
- Dynamical systems and scientific computing
- Computational neuroscience
[CBB researcher story] July 20, 2015 "Computational Perception: How a brain understands its environment"
Pascal Poupart

Research Interests:
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Machine learning and reasoning under uncertainty (artificial intelligence, computational statistics, decision and control theory)
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Health informatics (assistive technologies, behaviour recognition, smart walkers, Alzheimer’s monitoring)
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Natural language understanding (dialogue management, semantic analysis)
[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"
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"
Ben Thompson

Research Interests
- human visual cortex development and plasticity
- videogames for vision rehabilitation (amblyopia)
- vision loss treatments and rehabilitation
- diagnostics
- imaging
[YouTube] February 13, 2019 "Teaching an old brain new tricks" TEDxUW
Hamid Tizhoosh

Research Interests:
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Big data, computer vision and image processing, health engineering, terahertz imaging, fuzzy image processing
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Machine intelligence, opposition-based learning, pattern recognition
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Medical imaging and analysis (CT, MR, and ultrasound imaging)
[News Medical Life Sciences] June 28, 2018 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
[GRH News] May 31, 2018, "GRH partners with UW researchers and Huron Digital Pathology to create a “digital revolution” in pathology with medical search engine"
[Daily Bulletin] May 29, 2018, $3.7M in funding for AI and medical imaging project
[Exchange Magazine] May 22, 2018, Speaks about “Faster, Better, More Reliable than Deep Features: A Projection-Based, Pathologist-Centric Approach to Identification of Histopathology Images” at the Pathology Informatics Summit in Pittsburgh, PA.
[Waterloo New] [Engineering News] May 22, 2018, Electrical and Computer Engineering, $12 million awarded to Waterloo researchers
[YouTube Lecture] January 21, 2015 "BIG Data, Medical Imaging and Machine Intelligence"
[YouTube Lecture] October 1, 2014 "Medical Imaging: Pixels, Consensus and Learning"
[Waterloo Stories] January 9, 2013 "Making it harder for cancer to hide"
Justin Wan

Research Interests:
- Medical imaging (processing, registration, cell segmentation, tracking)
- Computer simulations (biomedical, brain and soft tissue injury and biomechanics, architectural, remote sensing, natural phenomena, fine arts)
- Computational finance
- Scientific computing (numerical solutions of partial differential equations, iterative methods, and multigrid preconditioning, parallel computation on high performance platforms)
Canada Research Chair in Scientific Computing [Canada Research Chair Profile]
Zhou Wang

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
[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:
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"
Andrew Wong

Research Interests:
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Data mining and bioinformatics
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Machine intelligence, computer vision, intelligence robotics
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Pattern recognition and discovery methods of genomic and proteomic data
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DNA sequencing, colon cancer and leukemia gene and data analysis
[YouTube Lecture] September 19, 2013 "Pattern discovery and analysis of genomic and proteomic data"
Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization: