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Schlegel Research Chair in Technology for Independent Living

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[Hep Mag] February 23, 2017 "Opioid Addiction Treatment and Psychotherapy Tied to Less HIV Risk in Those With Hep C"

[Smart Sex Resource] July 17, 2017 "Substance use, social disparities and the evolution of HIV/HCV infections in British Columbia"

[Smart Sex Resource] November 5, 2018 "Effect of opioid-substitution therapy and mental health counseling on HIV risk among hepatitis C-infected individuals"

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[Waterloo Stories] July 10, 2017 "Waterloo software improves care for kidney patients"

[CBB researcher story] July 21, 2015 "Data management in Health Care"

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Research Interests:

• Myopia control
• Paediatric vision
• Public education
• Indigenous eyecare

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"

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:

• Identifying interventions to promote well-being of people with, and those at risk for, dementia
• Co-design of technologies, programs, and services with people living with dementia, care partners, and other stakeholders, with a focus on physical activity and other lifestyle strategies
• Co-development of professional development programs for health and community service providers to promote quality and accessibility of health and wellness programs and services for persons living with dementia
• Integration of virtual programs, including virtual reality, to promote physical activity and healthy living

Research interests: 

• Neurobiological embedding of adversity
• Biological characteristics that influence outcome from brain injury
• Drug development, biomarkers
• Stroke; biological characteristics that influence outcomes from brain injury

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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"

Resarch interests

• Equitable healthcare access
• Tuberculosis/HIV healthcare delivery and quality of care
• Healthcare delivery and recovery from COVID-19
• Global health 

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"

Research interests:

• Vision rehabilitation
• Systems for optimizing patient care outcomes
• Retinal disease
• Pharmacology.