Our People - Mathematics

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:

• 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:

• Mathematical modelling in systems biology
• Control theory
• Synthetic biology

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[CBB researcher story] August 6, 2015 "Decreasing antibiotic resistance in bacteria"

[YouTube Lecture] September 30, 2014 "Model-based design in synthetic biology"

Research Interests:

• Integrative cancer biology
• Combination of cancer treatments
• Nano-scale drug delivery
• Cancer stem cells
• Biomechanics

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[Waterloo News] June 23, 2016 "Nanotechnology and math deliver two-in-one punch for cancer therapy resistance"

[Waterloo Stories] February 11, 2015 "Study finds new lethal combination of cancer drugs shrinks tumors"

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

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.

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

Research Interests:

• Integrative kidney physiology

• Biofluid dynamics

• Diabetes

• Hypertension

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March 29, 2018 "Canada 150 Research Chair joins Department of Applied Mathematics"

Research Interests:

• Bioinformatics tools (protein structures, genome mapping, conducting homology searches)

• Protein structure prediction, and automated NMR protein structure determination

• Stem cell image recognition

• Deep learning, natural language processing and automated conversation, AI

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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"

Research interests:

• Developing machine learning and statistical methods for genomics and proteomics data analysis using interpretable machine learning, reproducible (error-controlled) machine learning, and heterogeneous data integration
• Developing interpretation methods to find scientifically interesting and statistically confident hypotheses from complex biological data from single-cell genomics, mass spectrometry-based proteomics, and metagenomics

Research Interests:

• Neural networks and neural learning algorithms
• Dynamical systems and scientific computing
• Computational neuroscience

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[CBB researcher story] July 20, 2015 "Computational Perception: How a brain understands its environment"

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:

• Experimental biological physics
• Stochastic processes in physics and biology
• Pysiological constraints on bioproduct synthesis

Lab Equipment: Imagestream MkII with 488nm, 642nm and 785nm lasers; 60x magnification

[YouTube Lectures] Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology 2015

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:

• 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]

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