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Arash Arami

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Assistant Professor
Arash Arami
519-888-4567 x47648
Location: E7 3426
Link to profile: Arash Arami
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Karen Cochrane

Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, Assistant Professor

Duane Cronin

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Professor, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Trauma Biomechanics and Injury Prevention (tBIP), Director, Impact Mechanics and Material Characterization Laboratory
Duane Cronin
Location: EC4 1157

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

Link to profile: Duane Cronin
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Kaan Erkorkmaz

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Professor
Kaan Erkorkmaz
519-888-4567 x35214
Location: EC4 1013

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[Engineering News] October 19, 2016 "Researchers join advanced manufacturing network"

Link to profile: Kaan Erkorkmaz
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Shahrzad Esmaeili

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Professor

Emmanuel Ho

School of Pharmacy, Associate Professor
Emmanuel Ho
519-888-4567 x21372
Location: PHR 4002

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[Waterloo News] February 6, 2019 "Researchers find new treatment for Chlamydia"

[Waterloo News] April 16, 2018 "Developing new way to fight transmission of HIV"

Link to profile: Emmanuel Ho
Link to personal webpage: Emmanuel Ho

John Honek

Chemistry, Professor
John Honek
519-888-4567 x35817
Location: ESC 346

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[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners

Link to profile: John Honek
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Debbie Jones

Optometry and Vision Science, Clinical Professor
Debbie Jones
519-888-4567 x35934
Location: OPT 376

Research Interests:

  • Myopia control
  • Paediatric vision
  • Public education
  • Indigenous eyecare
Link to profile: Debbie Jones

Heather Keller

Kinesiology
Heather Keller
519-888-4567, ext. 41761
Location: AHS 2682

Research Interests:

  • Improving nutrition and health in hospitals, long term care and the community
  • Dementia

Schlegel Research Chair in Nutrition & Aging

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[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"

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Jonathan Kofman

Systems Design Engineering
J. Kofman
519-888-4567 x45185
Location: E7 6318

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

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Link to profile: Jonathan Kofman
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Jonathan Kusins

Systems Design Engineering, Assistant Professor

Yuning Li

Chemical Engineering
Yuning Li
519-888-4567 x31105
Location: QNC 5621

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:

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Patents

Link to profile: Yuning Li
Link to personal webpage: Yuning Li

Nima Maftoon

Systems Design Engineering
Nima Maftoon
519-888-4567 x47654
Location: E7 6426

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
Link to profile: Nima Maftoon

Veronika Magdanz

Systems Design Engineering
Veronika Magdanz
519-888-4567 x41532
Location: E7 6432

Research Interests:

  • microrobots

  • sperm cells
  • magnetic actuation
  • remote control
  • wireless
  • soft robots
  • medical robots
  • bioprinting
  • 3D printing

We develop microrobots for medical applications. The goal is to develop more targeted, active, but less invasive strategies for drug or cell delivery with the help of wireless, autonomously moving microrobots. One strategy is to combine biological elements with artificial components in a biohybrid approach. The biological component (cells, molecules) can serve as power source, loading unit or structural unit.

One example is the "spermbot" - a sperm cell remotely controlled with magnetic fields: https://phys.org/news/2014-01-sperm-bots-desired-video.html
Another example is IRONSperm: a magnetically functionalized nonmotile sperm driven by magnetic fields:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aba5855

Inspired by the motion of sperm, we also develop small scale flexible magnetic robots for noninvasive surgery (coming soon). I am also interested in reproductive biology and research that elucidates reasons for infertility. We look into the mechanisms of sperm migration and some interesting phenomena, such as sperm bundling (publication online soon)

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Link to profile: Veronika Magdanz
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Vivek Maheshwari

Chemistry
V. Maheshwari
519-888-4567 x38885
Location: QNC 5619

Research Interests:

  • High Resolution flexible pressure and tactile sensors

  • Microbial fuel cells

  • Nano electrodes for electrochemical detection

  • Flexible Electrodes for bio-interfacing, electrical mapping self-powered devices

  • Cell-inorganic composites
  • Multi-functional materials and devices
  • Wearable sensors
  • Composite membranes
Link to profile: Vivek Maheshwari
Link to personal webpage: Vivek Maheshwari

Dale Martin

Biology
Dale Martin
519-888-4567 x36958
Location: B1 291C

Research interests:

  • Neurodegeneration
  • Huntington Disease
  • Autophagy
  • Apoptosis
  • Fatty acylation

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Dale Martin
Link to personal webpage: Dale Martin

Stewart McLachlin

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Stewart McLachlin
519-888-4567 x44784
Location: E7 3424

Research interests:

  • Biomechanics
  • Orthopaedic surgery
  • Implant design
  • Bio-mechanical testing
  • Computational modeling
  • Computer-assisted surgery

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Stewart McLachlin
Link to personal webpage: Stewart McLachlin

Tizazu Mekonnen

Chemical Engineering
Tizazu Mekonnen
519-888-4567 x38914
Location: E6 5010

Research Interests:

  • Bioplastics
  • Polymer blends and composites
  • Polymer modifications and processing
  • Rubber processing and modifications
  • Biodegradable and compostable polymers
  • Nanostructured polymers
  • Polymer structure-property and applications development
  • Dispersion Rheology & dynamics of colloidal nanomaterials

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Tizazu Mekonnen
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Plinio Morita

School of Public Health Sciences
Plinio Morita
519-888-4567, ext. 41372
Location: TJB 2266

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

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

Link to profile: Plinio Pelegrini Morita
Link to personal webpage: Plinio Morita

Joe Quadrilatero

Kinesiology
Joe Quadrilatero
519-888-4567 x48131
Location: BMH 1106

Research Interests:

The primary focus of the Skeletal Muscle Biology and Cell Death Laboratory is to study cell death processes (i.e., apoptosis and autophagy) in skeletal muscle. In addition, a major theme is the influence of mitochondrial signaling and dynamics on skeletal muscle development, function, regeneration, and health. 

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Link to profile: Joe Quadrilatero

Carolyn Ren

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Carolyn Ren
519-888-4567 x38233, 519-888-4567 x33030
Location: E3 2108G, E3 4105
Contact for: Expertise in microfluidics, Lab-on-a-Chip technology, protein and DNA separation towards disease diagnosis and drug discovery, living cell analysis and water toxicity testing.

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"

Link to profile: Carolyn Ren
Link to personal webpage: Carolyn Ren

Oliver Schneider

Management Sciences
Oliver Schneider
519-888-4567 x38505
Location: CPH 3627

Research Interests

  • Human-computer interaction (HCI)
  • Haptics
  • Creativity-support systems

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[YouTube] October 11, 2018 "DualPanto: A Haptic Device that Enables Blind Users to Continuously Interact with Virtual Worlds"

Link to profile: Oliver Schneider
Link to personal webpage: Oliver Schneider

Hamed Shahsavan

Chemical Engineering
Hamed Shahsavan
519-888-4567 x34805
Location: E6 2018

Research interests:

  • Smart Polymers
  • Liquid Crystal Elastomers
  • Soft Robotic Materials
  • Micro Additive Manufacturing
  • 4D Printing
  • Surface and Interfacial Engineeirng
Link to profile: Hamed Shahsavan
Link to personal webpage: Hamed Shahsavan

George Shaker

Electrical & Computer Engineering
George Shaker
+1 519-498-5173
Location: EIT 3123

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

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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"

Link to profile: George Shaker
Link to personal webpage: George Shaker

Michael Tam

Chemical Engineering
Photo: M. Tam
519-888-4567 x38339
Location: QNC 5617

Research Interests:

  • Enhanced drug delivery systems, gene therapy

  • Associative polymers for environmentally friendly coatings

  • Sustainable nanomaterials (cellulose nanocrystals)

  • Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) and stimuli responsive polymeric systems

  • Polymer-surfactant interactions

  • Magnetic nanoparticles for novel separation processes

University Research Chair

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Link to profile: Michael K.C. Tam
Link to personal webpage: Michael Tam

Pejoohan Tavassoti

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Pejoohan Tavassoti
Location: E2 3305

Research Interests:

  • Smart Pavements and Connected Transportation Infrastructure
  • Modern Pavement Instrumentation
  • Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation (NDT/E)
  • Advanced Construction Materials Characterization
  • Sustainable Materials and Green Construction Technologies
  • Recycled Materials Valorization in Pavements
  • Application of Nanotechnology
  • Enhanced Pavement Design and Performance Prediction
  • Application of Artificial Intelligence to Pavement Engineering Problems
  • 3D Printing of Cementitious Materials
  • Implications of Climate Change for Pavement Design and Assest Management
  • Multistakeholder Planning in Pavement Engineering and Management
Link to profile: Pejoohan Tavassoti
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Ehsan Toyserkani

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Ehsan Toyserkani
519-888-4567 x37560
Location: EC4 1031
Contact for: Expertise in additive manufacturing of biodegradable scaffolds for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering applications, optical sensors for biomedical area.

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

University Research Chair

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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"

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Link to profile: Ehsan Toyserkani
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Thomas Willett

Systems Design Engineering
Thomas Willett
519-888-4567 x48405
Location: E7 6438

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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Mustafa Yavuz

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Professor, Director, Graduate Nanotechnology Program
Mustafa Yavuz
519-888-4567 x32093
Location: E5 3011
Link to profile: Mustafa Yavuz
Link to personal webpage: Nano and Micro Systems Lab

Liza-Anastasia DiCecco

Systems Design Engineering, Assistant Professor