Our People - A to D profiles

• Cryptography and data security
• High speed communication networks

• Hub location and hub network design
• Reverse logistics network design
• Location Analysis
• Network Design

• Modeling, model reduction methods, simulation, sensitivity analysis techniques, design and optimal control of advanced vehicle components and systems
• Novel model-based design tools for automotive systems
• Optimization of power management strategies for hybrid vehicles
• Speed trajectory control for fuel optimal driving

Smart Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Systems Lab (SHEVS)

• Biologically inspired intelligent systems
• Human Computer Interaction (HCI)/Human Machine Interface (HMI) systems
• Hybrid systems
• Intelligent embedded systems
• Sensory systems design

Centre for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (CPAMI)

5-Axis Surface Machining Lab

• Applied operations research
• Logistics/Inventory management
• Modes of transport and transportation systems

Waterloo Management of Integrated Manufacturing Systems (WATMIMS)

• Advanced signal processing algorithms for wireless communication
• Cognitive and software defined radios (CR and SDR)
• Design of high power and spectrum efficient linear radio frequency amplifiers
• Hybrid Radio Frequency and Digital Signal Processing (RF/DSP) design of wireless communication transmitters
• Microwave and millimeter-wave circuits and systems design
• Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) transceiver schemes
• Nonlinear and linear radio frequency (RF) circuits and systems characterization and behavioural modeling
• Power amplifier and transmitter linearization techniques (Baseband and RF Digital Predistortion, Feed-forward)
• RF integrated circuits (CMOS)

Emerging Radio Systems Group (EmRG)

• Cognitive work analysis
• Ecological interface design
• Graphical interface design and visualization

Advanced Interface Design Lab

• Lower back pain and injury

Centre of Research Expertise for the Preventative of Musculoskeletal Disorders (CRE-MSD)

• Battery charging systems
• Network/distributed and web-based programming applications in power systems
• Nonlinear systems theory and its applications to electricity markets
• Optimal power management in competitive electricity markets
• Smart charging systems

Power and Energy Systems Group

• Application of geographic information systems (GIS) to urban area analysis
• Design and operation of public transportation systems, highway systems, and facilities for non-motorized modes of transport
• Development and implementation of utility-based multi-modal travel forecasting models
• Transportation and land use impacts
• Urban transportation systems

Waterloo Public Transportation Initiative

• Biomaterials design
• Biomedical Engineering
• Colloid and surface science
• Drug and gene delivery
• Interfacial Engineering
• Nanomedicine
• Nanotechnology
• Polymer and biopolymer synthesis

Biomedical Engineering and Engery Storage Group

Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology

• Advanced nanostructured conductive polymers
• Nanocomposite membranes for fuel cell and water purification
• Nanostructured fuel cell catalysts
• Synthesis, functionalization and fabrication of nanostructured materials
• Zeolite nanoparticles and membranes

Applied Nanomaterials & Clean Energy Laboratory

Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN)

• Biofuel production – including biohydrogen, biodiesel, and biobutanol
• Biomanufacturing
• Bioprocessing technologies
• Recombinant protein production

Biomanufacturing Lab

Center for Bioengineering & Biotechnology (CBB)

• Computer vision
• Design and development of automated interpretation algorithms
• Digital image processing
• Pattern recognition

Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Lab

• Emissions control using CO2 abatement technologies
• Hydrogen production
• Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) simulation and modeling

• Automotive crash and occupant simulation
• Automotive crashworthiness
• High-rate materials characterization
• Impact biomechanics
• Pipeline integrity
• Trauma prediction

Impact Mechanics & Material Characterization Group

​Centre for Advanced Materials Joining

• Characterization and modeling of contacting interfaces and thermal interface materials
• Development of compact analytical and empirical models at micro- and nano-scales
• Development of thermally enhanced greases
• Entropy generation minimization in electronic systems
• Experimental and analytical modeling of nano-fluids
• Micro-scale refrigeration
• Microelectronics cooling
• Modeling and development of thermoelectric devices
• Natural and forced convection cooling
• Surface roughness in micro-tubes
• Thermal characterization of metal foams
• Thermal contact resistance in polymeric interfaces
• Thermal management of integrated nano-devices and thermal/electric energy conversion

Microelectronics Heat Transfer Laboratory (MHTLab)

• Embedded systems and software
• Generative programming and model-based software development
• Software design
• Software system families and product lines

Waterloo Intelligent Systems Engineering Lab (WISE Lab)

• Coding Theory
• Cross-layer optimization
• Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and space-time communications
• Multiuser detection
• Wireless communications

• Combustion diagnostics and nanoparticle metrology
• Gas/surface scattering
• Inverse analysis and optimal design of heat transfer systems
• Molecular gas dynamics
• Thermal radiation heat transfer

Inverse Problems in Combustion and Heat Transfer

• Development of automated and interactive formal methods tools
• Formal methods of system analysis
• Hardware verification
• Requirements specification and analysis
• Software Engineering
• System safety

Waterloo Formal Methods (WatForm) 

Software Engineering Lab

• Computational fluid dynamics
• Turbulent combustion modelling
• Emissions
• Auto-ignition
• Spray/mixing

Turbulent Combustion Modelling Group

• Hydrodynamics of Complex Fluids and Multiphase Flows​
• Computational Methods in Engineering
• Topological optimization of structural analysis