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• Cryptography and data security
• High speed communication networks

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

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

Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Lab

• 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

• 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

• Distributed Embedded Real-Time Systems
• Real-Time Safety Critical Software

Real-time Embedded Software Group

• 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

Unversity of Waterloo Alternative Fuels Team (UWAFT)

• Optimal loss and lossless data compression algorithms
• Signal processing for digital communications
• Storage and recognition applications in speech and image coding

• 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

Innovative Transportation System Solutions Lab

• Advanced Hardware Architectures
• Baseband communication circuits and algorithms
• Energy-efficient circuits and systems
• Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) signal processing

• Embedded Hardware Security
• Countermeasures for Hardware Hacking, including techniques for resistance to side channel analysis, reverse engineering, fault injection attacks
• Protection of Keys, Secure Boot

• Cryptographic primitives
• Multimedia communication security
• Network and ad hoc network security
• Sequence design for wireless Code Division Mutilpe Access (CDMA) communications

Communications Security Lab

• Speech recognition applications for advanced smartphone devices
• Voice interface design

• 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)

• Development of decision support tools for time-critical decision making
• Human-machine interfaces
• System design impacts on decision making, safety, and performance

The Humans in Complex Systems Lab

The Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology

• 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

• 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

Centre for Advanced Materials Joining

• Design and control of mechatronic systems
• Instrumented robotics
• Non-smooth dynamic systems
• Sensory information processing of motion control

• 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)

WATonoBus

Mechatronic Vehicles Systems Laboratory

• 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

Coding and Signal Transmission (CST) Laboratory

• Automotive Design
• Drive-by-wire
• Electronic stability and control
• Fatigue and fracture

Waterloo Cases in Design Engineering

• Design of mixed analog/digital circuits for wireless communication
• Phase noise of oscillators, mixer noise and mixer distortion analysis

• 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

Usability and Interactive Technology Lab (Use-IT)

• Automotive system modelling
• Biomechanics
• Multibody dynamics and vehicle design optimization
• Real-time simulation
• Vehicle dynamics

Motion Research Group

• 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)

• Coding theory
• Cooperative and cognitive networks
• Information theory
• Statistical signal processing
• Wireless communications

• Estimation of charge in batteries
• Control of smart materials
• Optimization of sensor and hardware placement

Infinite-dimensional Systems Research Group

• 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

• Modal Analysis
• Structural Dynamics
• Structural Identification and Control
• Vibration based Signal Processing

The Structural Dynamics, Control & Identification Group

• Biomedical Applications of electromagnetics
• Electromagnetic compatibility and interference
• Electromagnetic propagation mechanisms
• Electronic packaging
• Material measurements
• Photonics
• Radiating systems, theoretical and computational electromagnetics

• Rhetorical and Semiotic analysis of user interfaces

• 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)

• 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

Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio 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
• Bio-wearable electronics and systems
• Energy harvesting systems
• Complex propagation and scattering phenomena
• Devices and novel electromagnetic materials and wireless sensors

Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS)

• 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

Broadband Communications Research Group

• Autonomous systems
• Distributed and coordinated contrl
• Optimization and control theory
• Robotics and multi-robotic systems

• Authorization systems
• Information security
• Network security technologies, in particular wireless technology

• Automated mechatronics design
• Flexible link manipulators
• Haptics
• Nonlinear control
• Robot manipulators
• Telehaptics

• 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

Waterloo Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory (WAVE Lab)

• Haptics
• Human and biomedical engineering
• Intelligent mechatronic control systems
• Mobile robot navigation
• Modelling, simulation, and systems theory
• Signal imaging processing

• Radio Positioning
• Wireless communications
• Wireless Networking

Broadband Communications Research Group