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Eihab Abdel-Rahman
Systems Design Engineering, Professor, Associate Chair

Arash Arami
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Assistant Professor

Jack Callaghan
Kinesiology, Professor

Karen Cochrane
Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, Assistant Professor

Annemarie Dedek
School of Pharmacy, Assistant Professor

Baris Fidan
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Professor

Ehsan Hashemi
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Interests
- Control system development for Driver Assistance Systems
- Fault-tolerant state estimation for biped robots
- Distributed Estimation
- Control Theory
- Multibody Dynamics
Jan Huissoon
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Professor

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
Behrad Khamesee
Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering

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
Systems Design Engineering

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:
Vivek Maheshwari
Chemistry

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
Stewart McLachlin
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research interests:
- Biomechanics
- Orthopaedic surgery
- Implant design
- Bio-mechanical testing
- Computational modeling
- Computer-assisted surgery
John McPhee
Systems Design Engineering

Research Interests:
- Biomechatronics
- Multibody dynamic models and simulation
- Exoskeletons and rehabilitation robots
- Biomechanics
- Sports engineering
- Systems theory
- Model-based control
- Autonomous cars and vehicle dynamics
- Machine learning
- Computer vision
- Hybrid electric vehicles
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:
Katja Mombaur
Systems Design Engineering

Research Interests:
- human-robot interaction
- wearable robots
- rehabilitation robots
- intelligent assistive devices
- humanoid robots
- human movement analysis
- optimal control
- model-based control
- multibody systems modeling
Plinio Morita
School of Public Health Sciences

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"
Sean Peterson
Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering

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"
Carolyn Ren
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

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"
Oliver Schneider
Management Sciences

Research Interests
- Human-computer interaction (HCI)
- Haptics
- Creativity-support systems
[YouTube] October 11, 2018 "DualPanto: A Haptic Device that Enables Blind Users to Continuously Interact with Virtual Worlds"
Hamed Shahsavan
Chemical Engineering

Research interests:
- Smart Polymers
- Liquid Crystal Elastomers
- Soft Robotic Materials
- Micro Additive Manufacturing
- 4D Printing
- Surface and Interfacial Engineeirng
George Shaker
Electrical & Computer Engineering

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"
Mahesh Tripunitara
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests:
- Computer & Software Engineering
- Information security
- Authorization and access control
- Cryptographic key transport
- Secure payments
- Usable security
- Security and reliability of computer hardware
- Connectivity and Internet of Things
- Cybersecurity
- Application security
- Privacy and cryptography
- Information security
- IoT
- Dependability and security
James Tung
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

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"
Yimin Wu
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research interests:
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Materials Interfaces
- Energy Materials
- Solar Fuels
- CO2 reduction
- Ammonia synthesis
- Batteries
- Plastic recycling and upcycling
- In situ Multimodal Characterizations
- Artificial Intelligence
- Connectivity and Internet of Things
- Electronic and Photonic Materials
- Responsive Materials
- Neuromorphic Computing
- Flexible Electronics and Soft Robotics
- Sensing
- Healthcare
- Nanotechnology
Mustafa Yavuz
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Professor, Director, Graduate Nanotechnology Program

John Yeow
Systems Design Engineering

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]