Gordon Agnew
- Cryptography and data security
- High speed communication networks
Joanne Atlee
- Analysis of software requirements and specifications with computer-aided tools and techniques
- Configurable model-driven development (MDD)
- Practitioner-friendly specification and design notations that have precise semantics suitable for automated analysis
- Software modeling, model checking, documentation, and analysis
Otman Basir
- 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)
Slim Boumaiza
- 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)
Catherine Burns
- Cognitive work analysis
- Ecological interface design
- Graphical interface design and visualization
Jack Callaghan
- Lower back pain and injury
Centre of Research Expertise for the Preventative of Musculoskeletal Disorders (CRE-MSD)
Jeff Casello
- 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
David Clausi
- Computer vision
- Design and development of automated interpretation algorithms
- Digital image processing
- Pattern recognition
Richard Culham
- 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
Krzysztof Czarnecki
- Embedded systems and software
- Generative programming and model-based software development
- Software design
- Software system families and product lines
Oussama Damen
- Coding Theory
- Cross-layer optimization
- Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and space-time communications
- Multiuser detection
- Wireless communications
Baris Fidan
- Collaborative driving technologies
- Nonlinear/switching control of multivariable/time varying/multi-agent systems
- Robust adaptive control
- Specific designs for mechatronic systems
- Supervisory control
- Triangular systems and backstepping control
- Vehicle stability and control technologies
Sebastian Fischmeister
- Distributed Embedded Real-Time Systems
- Real-Time Safety Critical Software
Roydon Fraser
- Alternative fuels
- Exergy analysis of energy conversion systems
- In-cylinder combustion diagnostics and engineering
- Life cycle analysis
- Thermodynamics of ecosystems
- Vehicle fleet/power plant/industry emissions impacts (local and regional)
- Window thermal performance modelling
George Freeman
- Optimal loss and lossless data compression algorithms
- Signal processing for digital communications
- Storage and recognition applications in speech and image coding
Liping Fu
- Artificial Intelligence, Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
- Intelligent Paratransit: scheduling, dispatching and simulation
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Public transportation, safety and winter road maintenance
- Shortest path algorithms for in-vehicle route guidance systems
- Travel time modeling and estimation for advanced traveler information systems
Vincent Gaudet
- Advanced Hardware Architectures
- Baseband communication circuits and algorithms
- Energy-efficient circuits and systems
- Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) signal processing
Catherine Gebotys
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Embedded Hardware Security
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Countermeasures for Hardware Hacking, including techniques for resistance to side channel analysis, reverse engineering, fault injection attacks
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Protection of Keys, Secure Boot
Guang Gong
- Cryptographic primitives
- Multimedia communication security
- Network and ad hoc network security
- Sequence design for wireless Code Division Mutilpe Access (CDMA) communications
Randy Harris
- Speech recognition applications for advanced smartphone devices
- Voice interface design
Bruce Hellinga
- Design and evaluation of intelligent transportation system components
- Development and application of simulation tools
- Environmental impacts of transportation policies
- Safety
- Traffic demand management
Waterloo Public Transportation Initiative (WPTI)
Waterloo Transportation Research for Improving Proformance & Safety (WATTRIPS)
Jonathan Histon
- Development of decision support tools for time-critical decision making
- Human-machine interfaces
- System design impacts on decision making, safety, and performance
Pin-Han Ho
- Broadband wired and wireless communication networks
- Coded video multicasting, Medium Access Control (MAC) layer scheduling and performance analysis
- Cross-layer design in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.16 networks
- Integration of fiber and wireless communication systems (FiWi)
- Relay placement on cooperative communications and survivable routing for high availability design
- Secure and privacy-preserving vehicular communications
- Wireless network security
Jan Huissoon
- Arc Acoustics in Gas Metal Arc (GMA) welding
- Automatic end-of-arm and tool-centre-point calibration
- Autonomous Navigation Using Artificial Neural Networks
- Dynamic Seam Tracking for Robotic Welding
- Neuro-Musculo-Skeletal Modelling of Human Locomotion
- Walking Wobot Welder
Soo Jeon
- Design and control of mechatronic systems
- Instrumented robotics
- Non-smooth dynamic systems
- Sensory information processing of motion control
Fakhri Karray
- Autonomous and intelligent systems
- Computational intelligence and applications
- Cognitive robotics and advanced mechatronics
- Distributed real time systems
- Concept extraction and natural speech understanding
- Multi modal information retrieval
Centre for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (CPAMI)
Amir Khajepour
- Active vehicle stability
- Advanced vehicle systems
- Air-gas hybrid engine
- Complex hydraulic and vehicle dynamic systems modelling for articulated vehicles
- Configuration and power management control strategies for electric and electric-gas hybrid
- Embedded suspension systems
- Engine and body mounting systems (Passive and Active)
- Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH)
Amir Khandani
- Channel coding and transmission for fading environments
- Channel coding with an emphasis on Turbo-codes
- Coding and interference cancellation for Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems
- Constellation design and implementation for multi-level modulation over band-limited channels
- Cooperative networking
- Digital/Wireless Communications
- Information Theory with an emphasis on networks
- Multiple-access, multiple antenna systems
- Receiver structure for fading channels
- Soft decision/soft output decoding of binary codes
- Structure of lattices with applications in digital communications
Stephan Lambert
- Automotive Design
- Drive-by-wire
- Electronic stability and control
- Fatigue and fracture
Bosco Leung
- Design of mixed analog/digital circuits for wireless communication
- Phase noise of oscillators, mixer noise and mixer distortion analysis
Carolyn MacGregor
- Cognitive ergonomics
- Driver performance and safety
- Individual differences and information manipulation
- Navigation and manipulation in virtual environments and 3D simulations
- Usability testing and human-computer interaction
John McPhee
- Automotive system modelling
- Biomechanics
- Multibody dynamics and vehicle design optimization
- Real-time simulation
- Vehicle dynamics
William Melek
- Autonomous navigation and mobile manipulation
- Computational intelligence
- Design, modelling, and control of advanced mechatronics systems
- Modular and reconfigurable robotics and automation
Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Automation (LCIA)
Patrick Mitran
- Coding theory
- Cooperative and cognitive networks
- Information theory
- Statistical signal processing
- Wireless communications
Kirsten Morris
- Estimation of charge in batteries
- Control of smart materials
- Optimization of sensor and hardware placement
Sagar Naik
- Energy-cost modelling of wireless applications
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Low power software and communication protocols
- Mobile and ad hoc networks
- Mobile communication and computing
- Optical networks
- Testing communication protocols
Sriram Narasimhan
- Modal Analysis
- Structural Dynamics
- Structural Identification and Control
- Vibration based Signal Processing
Omar Ramahi
- Biomedical Applications of electromagnetics
- Electromagnetic compatibility and interference
- Electromagnetic propagation mechanisms
- Electronic packaging
- Material measurements
- Photonics
- Radiating systems, theoretical and computational electromagnetics
Neil Randall
- Rhetorical and Semiotic analysis of user interfaces
Catherine Rosenberg
- Broadband networks: Internet protocol (IP), Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), and Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS)
- Cellular networks: cross-layer integration, resource management, mobility and power management, opportunistic scheduling
- Multimedia applications: Content delivery network (CDN), peer-to-peer, and location-based services
- Network security: Distributed denial of services (DDOS), traffic monitoring
- Traffic engineering: quality of service, game theory and pricing, dynamic provisioning, network design, routing, congestion control, scheduling
- Wireless networks: sensors and Wireless local area networks (WLANs)
Safieddin Safavi-Naeini
- Complex propogation and scattering phenomena
- Computational electromagnetics and photonics
- Devices and novel electromagnetic materials
- Guided-wave and free space optical systems and components
- Intelligent Navigation Systems
- Microwave and millimeter wave planar circuits and antenna systems
- Microwave high temperature superconductor (HTSC) thin film technology
- Radio frequency (RF)/microwave packaging and Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)/Electromagnetic interface (EMI) analyses
- RF/microwave/millimeter wave/Terahertz (THz) systems
- Vehicle wireless communications and safety systems
George Shaker
- 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
- Bio-wearable electronics and systems
- Energy harvesting systems
- Complex propagation and scattering phenomena
- Devices and novel electromagnetic materials and wireless sensors
Sherman Shen
- Radio resource and mobility management
- Voice over mobile Internet protocol (IP)
- Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks
- Wireless network security
- Wireless/Internet interworking
- Wireless local area network (WLAN)/Worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX), Wireless application protocol (WAP), Ultra-wide band (UWB) wireless communications
Stephen Smith
- Autonomous systems
- Distributed and coordinated contrl
- Optimization and control theory
- Robotics and multi-robotic systems
Mahesh Tripunitara
- Authorization systems
- Information security
- Network security technologies, in particular wireless technology
David Wang
- Automated mechatronics design
- Flexible link manipulators
- Haptics
- Nonlinear control
- Robot manipulators
- Telehaptics
Steven Waslander
- Aerial and Terrestrial Autonomous Vehicles, Rovers, Quadrotors and Blimps
- Autonomous Perception and Navigation in Unknown Environments
- Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Multi-Agent Control
- Distributed and Decentralized Optimization
John Zelek
- Haptics
- Human and biomedical engineering
- Intelligent mechatronic control systems
- Mobile robot navigation
- Modelling, simulation, and systems theory
- Signal imaging processing
Weihua Zhuang
- Radio Positioning
- Wireless communications
- Wireless Networking