Our People - Software and Data

• 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)

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

Waterloo Management of Integrated Manufacturing Systems (WATMIMS)

• 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)

• 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

• Large-scale linear and integer optimization (interior-point methods, decomposition, column generation)
• Supply-chain design: logistics, inventory, routing and scheduling

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

Real-time Embedded Software Group

• 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

• Data analysis of vehicle usage, through WeBike Project.
• Data mining and management.

Data Systems Group

Information Systems and Science for Energy

• Multiphysics simulations
• Turbulent simulations (LES, DNS)
• High-speed aerothermodynamics
• Trans-/Supercritical combustion 
• Turbulence modelling in two-phase flow
• High-pressure fuel injector systems
• Low-order modelling of fluid systems

• Conflict resolution
• Multiple objective decision making
• Systems management
• Time series analysis techniques

Conflict Analysis Group

• Delayed product differentiation strategies
• Design of vendor managed inventory systems
• Evaluation of production/inventory system information
• Stochastic models of manufacturing and service systems
• Supply chain management

• 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

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

Waterloo Cases in Design Engineering

• Emulsion rubber
• Microfluidics
• ​Applied Statistics - Modeling, Design of Experiments, Parameter Estimation

• Adaptive control heuristics for production control
• Auto manufacturing efficiencies
• Production control strategies for lean supply chains
• Threat detection frameworks

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

Motion Research Group

• Long-term durability of lightweight composites

• Fatigue and creep failure

• Impact of composite structures

• Damage mechanics and constitutive modeling

• Micromechanics

• Non-destructive evaluation (NDE)

• 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)

• Behavioural & organizational aspects of information systems and management of technology

• Business and industrial statistics
• Operations research
• Statistical engineering
• Statistical methods for process improvement and variation reduction