Our People - Biomechanical Engineering

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:

• Identifying mechanisms linking physical exposures with knee osteoarthritis
• Global aim of preventing exposure-related musculoskeletal disorders

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Research Interests:

• Biomechanical properties of soft tissues
• Integration of imaging and mechanics
• Biomechanical-based image registration for surgery and radiotherapy
• Mechanics and structural applications of composite materials
• Smart devices and sensors

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[YouTube Lecture] September 30, 2014 "An engineering prospective on Cancer'

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:

• Developing human ultrasound applications to understand more about complex blood flow in arterial bifurcations and venous valves
• Recommending exercise strategies that target cardiovascular dysfunction associated with physical inactivity, looking specifically at 'high-risk' vascular areas
• Developing new uses of ultrasound to diagnose pro-atherogenic blood flow patterns

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:

• Orthopaedic biomechanics (ACL, knee mechanics)

• Biomedical device design

• Tissue engineering

• Implant design

Research Interests:

• Biomedical and scientific imaging

• Computer vision and video analysis

• Image processing, segmentation/classification

• Multiresolution techniques

• Automated interpretation of SAR (synthetic aperture radar)

• Remote sensing

• Stochastic models

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[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

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

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

Research Interests:

• Fundamental shoulder function and dysfunction
• Creation and validation of mathematical models to predict shoulder demands
• Applications of shoulder biomechanics to workplace injury prevention
• Rehabilitative and preventative strategies for ensuring shoulder health
• Digital human modeling, Computational musculoskeletal modeling
• Ergonomics
• Motion Capture
• Upper limb biomechanics

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Canada Research Chair in Shoulder Mechanics [Canada Research Chair Profile]

[Waterloo News] February 19, 2019 "How to make the push-up work for you" 

[Waterloo Stories] October 7, 2013 "Reducing shoulder injuries in the workplace"

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:

• 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:

• Musculoskeletal biomechanics related to human health and injury prevention, and the role that advanced age has on these relationships.
• Fall-related tissue trauma including hip fractures, spinal cord injuries, and traumatic brain injuries
• Workplace musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD)
• Orthopedic biomechanics

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[YouTube] Andrew Laing, Department of Kinesiology, UW

Research Interests:

• Microfluidics and nanofluidics
• Lab-on-a-chip, diagnostic devices (biomedical, environmental, food safety)
• Interfacial Phenomena

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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

Research Interests

• Knee biomechanics
• Osteoarthritis
• Clinical outcomes
• Mobility
• Exercise
• Muscle
• Imaging and disability

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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:

• 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"

[Science Mag] June 6, 2016 "This desert moss can water itself with fog"

[Nature] June 08, 2016 "How desert moss drinks from air"

[PNAS] June 22, 2017 "Cavitation onset caused by acceleration"

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:

• 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:

• 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:

• Biomechanics
• Mathematical modeling of hydrocephalus
• Mathematical oncology

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[Applied Mathematics Biomedical Research Group]

[Waterloo Stories] January 16, 2018 "Math can predict how cancer cells evolve"

Research Interests

• human visual cortex development and plasticity
• videogames for vision rehabilitation (amblyopia)
• vision loss treatments and rehabilitation
• diagnostics
• imaging

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[YouTube] February 13, 2019 "Teaching an old brain new tricks" TEDxUW

Research Interests:

• Tissue engineering and biodegradable implants for regenerative medicine (3D printing)

• Bio-additive and microscale-additive manufacturing (opto-mechanical sensors, smart structures, developed through additive manufacturing)

• Novel multi-scale additive manufacturing technologies for biomedical, oil/gas and manufacturing sectors

• Laser-based fabrication techniques with particular focus on direct write processes in micro- and macro-scale

• Modeling, sensing and real-time control of laser-based manufacturing techniques

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​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:

• 3D Variable Density Printing
• Graphene Printing
• Dual-Parameter Fiber Optic Sensor

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:

• Biomaterials and mechanics of biomaterials and tissues

• Bone quality and fragility, collagen

• Engineering of bone mimetic materials for skeletal reconstruction (3D printing)

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Research Interests:

• Stem cells, nanofabrication and advancement of biomaterials in healthcare technologies to repair, replace or regenerate damaged tissue and organ structures

• Fabrication and application of nano-structure for biomedical applications in neural, vascular, and cornea tissue engineering

• ​Biomaterial approach to study ex-vivo pluripotent stem cell expansion

• Modulation of cell behavior with nanotopography

• Topography-regulation of stem cells lineage commitment and differentiation

• Differentiation of adult and pluripotent stem cells with nanotopography

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Research Interests:

• Microjoining (wire bonding, laser & resistance microwelding, etc.) for medical and electronics applications

• Nanojoining (laser joining, soldering, etc.) for sensing and biomedical applications

• Brazing/soldering (diffusion brazing, ceramic/metal bonding, etc.) for aerospace, automotive and electronics applications

• Welding (laser, resistance welding, etc.) for automotive applications

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Canada Research Chair in Advanced Materials Joining and Processing [Canada Research Chair Profile]

[Office of Research News] May 8, 2018 Waterloo researchers named Canada Research Chairs