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Sebastian Fischmeister

Executive Director
Location: E5 4112
Link to profile: Sebastian Fischmeister

Kaan Inal

Associate Director
519-888-4567 x38114
Location: EC4 1103
Link to profile: Kaan Inal

Stefanie Bruinsma

Powertrain Systems Researcher
519-888-4567 x40203
Location: E7 7418

Nasser Abukhdeir

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

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

Computational Multiphysics Research Group

Link to profile: Nasser Abukhdeir

Gordon Agnew

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Cryptography and data security
  • High speed communication networks
Link to profile: Gordon Agnew

Sibel Alumur Alev

Associate Professor, Management Sciences

Research Expertise

  • Hub location and hub network design
  • Reverse logistics network design
  • Location Analysis
  • Network Design
Link to profile: Sibel Alumur Alev

Joanne Atlee

Professor, Computer Science

Research Expertise

  • 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

Waterloo Formal Methods Research Group

Personal Website

Link to profile: Joanne Atlee

Lisa Aultman-Hall

Professor, Systems Design Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Transportation systems data collection and modeling 
  • Energy demand for electric vehicle charging
  • Intercity travel and accessibility
Link to profile: Lisa Aultman-Hall

Michael Barnett-Cowan

Associate Professor, Kinesiology

Research Expertise

  • Vestibular (balance) system
  • Object recognition
  • Head movement and orientation
  • Coordinated movement

Multisensory Brain and Cognition Lab

Link to profile: Michael Barnett-Cowan

Otman Basir

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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)

Personal Website

Link to profile: Otman Basir

Sanjeev Bedi

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 5-Axis numerically controlled machining
  • Automated polishing
  • Complex curve machining methods: Principle Axis Method (PAM) and Multi-Point Method (MPM)
  • Design of Numerical Control (NC) machines and controllers
  • Efficient tool path planning
  • Flank milling
  • Gouge detection and avoidance mechanisms
  • Machined surface evaluation
  • Surface finish estimation

5-Axis Surface Machining Lab

Personal Website

Link to profile: Sanjeev Bedi

Elliot Biro

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Metallurgical Transformations During Welding
  • Post-weld Properties
  • Improving Weld Process Robustness (increasing Manufacturability)
  • Effect Of Microstructure And Mechanical Property Hetrogenity On Weld Performance
  • Physical Simulation Of The Welding Process
  • Weld Defect Formation
  • Welding Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS)
  • Dissimilar Material Welding

Centre for Advanced Materials Joining (CAMJ)

Link to profile: Elliot Biro

Jim Bookbinder

Professor, Management Sciences

Research Expertise

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

Waterloo Management of Integrated Manufacturing Systems (WATMIMS)

Link to profile: Jim Bookbinder

Slim Boumaiza

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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)

Link to profile: Slim Boumaiza

Catherine Burns

Professor, Systems Design Engineering

Research Expertise

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

Advanced Interface Design Lab

Link to profile: Catherine Burns

Clifford Butcher

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Fracture
  • Formability
  • Plasticity
  • Micromechanics
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Automotive Metal Forming & Crash Simulations
  • Advanced/Ultra High Strength Steels
  • Aluminum alloys
  • Magnesium alloys
  • Warm Forming & Hot Stamping

Waterloo Forming and Crash Lab

Link to profile: Clifford Butcher

Claudio Cañizares

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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

Personal Website

Link to profile: Claudio Cañizares

Jeff Casello

Professor, School of Planning

Research Expertise

  • 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

Link to profile: Jeff Casello

Pu Chen

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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

Link to profile: Pu Chen

Zhongwei Chen

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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

Link to profile: Zhongwei Chen

Perry Chou

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

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

Personal Website

Link to profile: Perry Chou

David Clausi

Professor, Systems Design Engineering

Research Expertise

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

Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Lab

Link to profile: David Clausi

Eric Croiset

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Emissions control using CO2 abatement technologies
  • Hydrogen production
  • Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) simulation and modeling
Link to profile: Eric Croiset

Duane Cronin

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
519-888-4567 x32682
Location: EC4 1157

Research Expertise

  • 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

Link to profile: Duane Cronin

Mark Crowley

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Probabilistic Graphical Models
  • Decision Making Under Uncertainty
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Optimization
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Game Theory
  • Autonomous and connected car
  • Automotive
  • Operational Artificial Intelligence

Centre for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Personal Website

Link to profile: Mark Crowley

Krzysztof Czarnecki

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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)

Link to profile: Krzysztof Czarnecki

Oussama Damen

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

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

Personal Website

Link to profile: Oussama Damen

Kyle Daun

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Combustion diagnostics and nanoparticle metrology
  • Gas/surface scattering
  • Inverse analysis and optimal design of heat transfer systems
  • Molecular gas dynamics
  • Thermal radiation heat transfer
Link to profile: Kyle Daun

Nancy Day

Professor, Computer Science

Research Expertise

  • 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) 

Personal Website

Link to profile: Nancy Day

Cecile Devaud

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

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

Turbulent Combustion Modeling Lab

Link to profile: Cecile Devaud

Samir Elhedhli

Professor, Management Sciences

Research Expertise

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

Personal Website

Link to profile: Samir Elhedhli

Ali Elkamel

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Process Systems Engineering; Computer-Aided Product Formulation and Design
  • Systems Biology
  • Carbon Management, Energy and Environmental Systems
  • Optimization of Oil, Gas, Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Operations
  • Process Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Systems.

Personal Website

Link to profile: Ali Elkamel

Kaan Erkorkmaz

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Modeling and Identification
  • Optimal trajectory generation
  • Precision motion control

Precision Controls Laboratory

Link to profile: Kaan Erkorkmaz

Baris Fidan

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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
Link to profile: Baris Fidan

Sebastian Fischmeister

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

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

Real-time Embedded Software Group

Link to profile: Sebastian Fischmeister

Michael Fowler

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Conductive polymer blends
  • Design and performance of fuel cell stacks and systems
  • Development and testing of polymeric materials
  • Fuel cell materials testing
  • Fuel cell system reliability and modelling
  • Hydrogen production and distribution
  • Life cycle analysis

Green Energy and Fuel Cell Research Group

Link to profile: Michael Fowler

Roydon Fraser

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Alternative fuels
  • Energy 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)

Link to profile: Roydon Fraser

Liping Fu

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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

Link to profile: Liping Fu

Vincent Gaudet

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

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

Personal Website

Link to profile: Vincent Gaudet

Catherine Gebotys

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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
Link to profile: Catherine Gebotys

Adrian Gerlich

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Friction stir welding and processing, roll bonding, overlay welding
  • Materials characterization of light alloys, steels, and metal matrix composites using quantitative electron microscopy
  • Physical metallurgy of welded components

Centre for Advanced Materials Joining (CAMJ)

Link to profile: Adrian Gerlich

Lukasz Golab

Associate Professor, Management Sciences

Research Expertise

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

Data Systems Group

Personal Website

Link to profile: Lukasz Golab

Guang Gong

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

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

Communications Security Lab

Personal Website

Link to profile: Guang Gong

Randy Harris

Professor, English Language and Literature

Research Expertise

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

Personal Website

Link to profile: Randy Harris

Bruce Hellinga

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Design and evaluation of intelligent transportation system components
  • Development and application of simulation tools
  • Environmental impacts of transportation policies
  • Safety
  • Traffic demand management

Waterloo Transportation Research for Improving Proformance & Safety (WATTRIPS)

Link to profile: Bruce Hellinga

Glenn Heppler

Professor, System Design Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Dynamics and Control of Structures
  • Non linear structural dynamics
  • Micropolar materials modeling
  • Composite materials
Link to profile: Glenn Heppler

Jean-Pierre Hickey

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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

Multi-Physics Interaction Lab

Link to profile: Jean-Pierre Hickey

Pin-Han Ho

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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
Link to profile: Pin-Han Ho

Jan Huissoon

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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
Link to profile: Jan Huissoon

Kaan Inal

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • High performance computing – parallel computing
  • Instabilities and localized deformation phenomena in materials
  • Metal formability
  • Micromechanics, crystal plasticity

Computational Mechanics Research Group

Link to profile: Kaan Inal

Hamidreza Jahed Motlagh

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Cyclic plasticity
  • Fatigue failure analysis and fatigue life prediction
  • Finite deformation
  • Mechanical testing of micro- and submicron specimens, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
  • Modelling, analysis and design of materials under inelastic and cyclic loadings
  • Multi-axial fatigue of magnesium alloys
  • Residual stresses

Fatigue and Stress Analysis Lab

Link to profile: Hamidreza Jahedmotlagh

Sheshakamal Jayaram

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Analysis or conduction and breakdown mechanisms in insulating materials under high voltage stress
  • Characterization analysis of batteries and supercapacitors
  • High voltage and electrical insulation engineering
  • Performance evaluation of energy storage elements
  • Pulse power technologies
  • Use of partial discharge and other high frequency components as diagnostic tools for insulation failure analysis

High Voltage Engineering Lab

Power and Energy Systems Group

Personal Website

Link to profile: Shesha Jayaram

Soo Jeon

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

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

Waterloo Mechanical System & Control Lab

Personal Website

Link to profile: Soo Jeon

David Johnson

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Development and application of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) to flows
  • Fan design and testing
  • Fluid-thermal component design and analysis
  • Incompressible flow turbomachinery (turbines, fans, and pumps)
  • Jet and nozzle flows
  • Large scale PIV and measurement techniques
  • Pump design and testing
  • Wind energy and wind turbines
Link to profile: David Johnson

Peter Johnson

Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental

Research Expertise

  • Geospatial technology
  • Location-based technology
  • Communications and information sharing

Waterloo Civic Map Lab

Link to profile: Peter Johnson

Fakhri Karray

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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)

Personal Website

Link to profile: Fakhri Karray

Mehrdad Kazerani

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Active power filters
  • Battery electric, hybrid electric and fuel cell vehicles
  • Current-source converter/inverter applications
  • Distributed power generation
  • Flexible alternating current (AC) transmission systems (FACTS)
  • Fuel cell power conditioners
  • Matrix converters
  • Photovoltaic grid-connected inverters
  • Power quality
  • Pulse power applications
  • Sustainable energy storage systems
  • Utility interface of alternative energy sources

Power and Energy Systems Group

Link to profile: Mehrdad Kazerani

Amir Khajepour

Professor, Director of the Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research (WatCAR)

Research Expertise

  • 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)

WATonoBus

Mechatronic Vehicles Systems Laboratory

Link to profile: Amir Khajepour

Behrad Khamesee

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Clean room applications
  • Electromagnetic dampers
  • Micromanipulation using magnetic levitation
  • Microrobotics
  • Smart structures and actuators
  • Wind tunnel testing

Maglev Microrobotics Laboratory

Link to profile: Behrad Khamesee

Amir Khandani

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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

Link to profile: Amir Khandani

Holger Kleinke

Professor, Chemistry

Research Expertise

  • Crystal Structure Prediction
  • Inorganic Materials
  • Solid State Chemistry
  • Thermoelectric Energy Conversion

Personal Website

Link to profile: Holger Kleinke

Hyock Ju Kwon

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Cell traction force measurement using optical sectioning techniques
  • Constitutive modelling of soft bio-polymers
  • Mechanical measurements using the Digital Image Correlation method
  • Viscous fracture of soft materials
Link to profile: Hyock Ju Kwon

Stephan Lambert

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

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

Waterloo Cases in Design Engineering

Link to profile: Stephan Lambert

Nasser Lashgarian Azad

Associate Professor, Systems Design Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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

Automation and Intelligent Systems Group (AIS)

Link to profile: Nasser Lashgarian Azad

Bosco Leung

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Design of mixed analog/digital circuits for wireless communication
  • Phase noise of oscillators, mixer noise and mixer distortion analysis
Link to profile: Bosco Leung

Jonathan Li

Professor, Geography and Environmental

Research Expertise

  • Mobile mapping solutions for outdoor and indoor mapping
  • 3D object detection GeoAI for multi-scale geospatial mapping and change detection
  • LiDAR point cloud processing for 3D urban modeling
  • Machine learning for intelligent processing of earth observation data
  • Remote sensing applications in transportation

Geospatiail Sensing and Data Intelligence Lab

Link to profile: Jonathan Li

Xianguo Li

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Energy and exergy analysis
  • Energy conversion technologies
  • Fuel atomization and spray formation
  • Fuel Cell performance modelling and optimization
  • Heat transfer processes
  • Life cycle analysis
  • Modelling of transport phenomena in fuel cells
  • Techniques for design and fabrication of fuel cell components

Fuel Cell and Green Energy Lab

Personal Website

Link to profile: Xianguo Li

Fue-Sang Lien

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Aoerdynamics and Aeroaucoustics
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Flow visualization and animation
  • Turbulence Modeling
  • Wind Engineering and Dispersion
Link to profile: Fue-Sang Lien

Carolyn MacGregor

Professor, Systems Design Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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)

Link to profile: Carolyn MacGregor

Raafat Mansour

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Advanced modeling and design methodologies for radio frequency (RF)/microwave
  • Analysis of integrated RF systems (components, packaging and interconnect)
  • Computer aided diagnostic/tuning tools for Electromagnetic band gap structures
  • Filters and multiplexers
  • RF-Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology and nano-based sensors
  • RF-Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) components
  • Superconductive microwave devices

Centre for Integrated RF Engineering (CIRFE)

Link to profile: Raafat Mansour

Michael Mayer

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Electronic packaging
  • Microfabrication
  • Microjoining processes
  • Sensor technology
  • Thermosonic and ultrasonic wire bonding
  • Ultrasonic Finite Element Models

Centre for Advanced Materials Joining

Link to profile: Michael Mayer

John McPhee

Professor, Systems Design Engineering

Research Expertise

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

Motion Research Group

Link to profile: John McPhee

William Melek

Professor, Director Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Autonomous navigation and mobile manipulation
  • Computational intelligence
  • Design, modelling, and control of advanced mechatronics systems
  • Modular and reconfigurable robotics and automation

RoboHub

Link to profile: William Melek

Patrick Mitran

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Coding theory
  • Cooperative and cognitive networks
  • Information theory
  • Statistical signal processing
  • Wireless communications
Link to profile: Patrick Mitran

John Montesano

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Long-term durability of lightweight composites

  • Fatigue and creep failure

  • Impact of composite structures

  • Damage mechanics and constitutive modeling

  • Micromechanics

  • Non-destructive evaluation (NDE)

Composites Research Group

Link to profile: John Montesano

Kirsten Morris

Professor, Applied Mathematics

Research Expertise

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

Infinite-dimensional Systems Research Group

Link to profile: Kirsten Morris

Krshirasagar Naik

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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
Link to profile: Krshirasagar Naik

Sriram Narasimhan

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Expertise

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

The Structural Dynamics, Control & Identification Group

Link to profile: Sriram Narasimhan

Linda Nazar

Professor, Chemistry

Research Expertise

  • Design and analysis of advanced materials for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries
  • Development of new materials for enhanced energy storage and conversion
  • Hydrogen Storage and Fuel Cell Catalyst Materials
  • Mesoporous metal oxides
  • Solid state electrochemistry of metal oxides, metal phosphates and pnictides

NAZAR Group

Link to profile: Linda Nazar

Flora Ng

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Catalyst development for hydrocarbon processing
  • Catalytic distillation
  • Heavy oil and emulsion upgrading
  • Production of ultra low Sulphur gasoline and diesel fuel
  • Production of value added products from waste plastics

Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology 

Link to profile: Flora Ng

Patricia Nieva

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and Nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS) sensors for operation in harsh environments
  • MEMS/NEMS processing, packaging and microassembly
  • Micropower generation
  • Micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems (MOEMS) and adaptive optics
  • Physical MEMS/NEMS sensors and devices
  • Self-contained integrated microsystems

Sensors and Integrated MicroSystems Laboratory (SIMSLAB)

Link to profile: Patricia Nieva

Alexander Penlidis

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Design, mathematical modelling and computer simulation of polymer reactors
  • Emulsion/solution/suspension polymerization
  • On-line sensor development for polymer and latex characterization
  • Optimization and computer control
  • Polymer research and engineering
  • Polymerization kinetics

Institute for Polymer Research

Link to profile: Alexander Penlidis

Sean Peterson

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Biological Fluid Dynamics
  • Energy Harvesting
  • Fluid/Structure Interaction
  • Optical Diagnostic Methods for Fluid Mechanics
  • Vortex Dynamics

Fluid Flow Physics Group

Link to profile: Sean Peterson

Mark Pritzker

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Electrochemical Engineering
  • Electrochemical techniques for fabrication of nanostructures
  • Leaching, adsorption and ion exchange processes
  • Metal and alloy electrodeposition
  • Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) and Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) experimentation and modelling
  • Process Modelling
  • Simulation and optimization of oriented strand board manufacturing
Link to profile: Mark Pritzker

Omar Ramahi

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

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

Advanced Concepts Research (ACR) Laboratory

Link to profile: Omar Ramahi

Neil Randall

Associate Professor, English Language and Literature

Research Expertise

  • Rhetoric and semiotics of Human-Computer Interaction
Link to profile: Neil Randall

Derek Rayside

Associate Professor, ECE

Research Expertise

  • Software Engineering
  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Cybersecurity
  • Infrastructure Integrity
  • Software Engineerin

Personal Website

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Catherine Rosenberg

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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)

Personal Website

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Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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

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Frank Safayeni

Professor, Management Sciences

Research Expertise

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

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Distribution system automation and load management
  • Distribution system performance analysis
  • Distribution system planning
  • Energy Systems
  • Grounding system analysis
  • Power quality analysis
  • Power system asset management and monitoring
  • Reactive power control

Power and Energy Systems Group

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Armaghan Salehian

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Continuum modeling, vibration analysis and modal testing
  • Smart materials
  • Wave propagation in composite materials

Vibration and Energy Harvesting Laboratory

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Siby Samuel

Assistant Professor, Systems Design Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Simulation & Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality
  • Novice and Older Driver Training
  • Predictive & Conceptual Modeling of Behaviour
  • Eye tracking
  • Attention & Cognition
  • Perception
  • Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
  • Decision Making
  • Aging
  • Automotive Human factors
  • Autonomous and Connected Vehicles & Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Caregiver Behaviours & Errors
  • Assistive & Automotive Interfaces
  • Vulnerable Road User Safety (Pedestrians & Bicyclists)
  • Motorcyclist Safety
  • Special Populations (ADHD & Dementia)
  • Traffic Control Devices & Roadway Infrastructure Design
Link to profile: Siby Samuel

Gerry Schneider

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • All-Speed Flow Prediction Methods
  • Control-Volume-Based Finite Element Methods
  • Machine Vision
  • Phase-Change Energy Transport. Equation Solving for Physical Problems
Link to profile: Gerry Schneider

George Shaker

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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

Wireless Sensors and Devices Laboratory

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Xuemin (Sherman) Shen

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • 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

Personal Website

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Leonardo Simon

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Correlation of syntheses-structure-properties of polymers
  • Development and evaluation of novel bioproducts for automotive applications
  • Development of composite materials and leading-edge technologies in nanomaterials
  • Development of polymer nanocomposites
  • Fuel cell materials
  • Mathematical modeling of polymerization mechanisms

Institute for Polymer Research

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Siva Sivoththaman

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Advanced processing technologies for microelectronic devices and process modeling
  • Low-permittivity dielectric films and device integration
  • Low-thermal budget, rapid thermal, and optothermal processing in silicon
  • Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology, silicon micromachining
  • Nanocrystalline semiconductors and nanostructures
  • Silicon-based crystalline and thin-film photovoltaic devices: design and fabrication technology

Centre for Advanced Photovoltaic Devices and Systems

Personal Website

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Stephen Smith

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

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

Autonomous Systems Laboratory

Personal Website

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Stefan Steiner

Professor, Statistics and Actuarial Science

Research Expertise

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

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Post combustion air pollution control
  • Syngas purification
  • Thermochemical process for alternative fuel production

Green Energy and Pollution Control Research

Personal Website

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Ehsan Toyserkani

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

  • Additive manufacturing
  • Modeling/Simulation and real-time control of metal laser additive manufacturing
  • Micro-scale additive manufacturing
  • Opto-mechanical dual-parameter optical sensors developed through additive manufacturing

Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing Lab

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Mahesh Tripunitara

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

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

Personal Website

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Costas Tzoganakis

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Analysis and design of co-extrusion dies
  • Analysis and on-line monitoring of polymer compounding operations
  • Analysis of polymer mixing in twin screw extruders
  • Chemical modification and functionalization of polymers by reactive extrusion
  • Compounding of polymers for fuel cell applications
  • Devulcanization of recycled rubber with supercritical carbon dioxide
  • Extrusion of polymers and polymer blends with supercritical fluids
  • Mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of polymer processing operations
  • Polymer micronization using supercritical carbon dioxide

Institute for Polymer Research

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Edward Vrscay

Professor, Applied Mathematics

Research Expertise

  • Mathematical imaging
  • Diagnostically lossless medical image compression
  • Fractal-based methods of analysis and approximation
  • Dynamical systems and their applications
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Mihaela Vlasea

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Additive manufacturing
  • Advanced manufacturing
  • Power bed fusion
  • Power bed binder jetting
  • Digital design optimization
  • Process optimization
  • Data analytics
  • Monitoring and controls strategies

Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing Lab (MSAM)

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David Wang

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Automated mechatronics design
  • Flexible link manipulators
  • Haptics
  • Nonlinear control
  • Robot manipulators
  • Telehaptics
Link to profile: David Wang

Beth Weckman

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Development of improved diagnostic techniques for use in reacting and non-reacting flows
  • Reacting turbulent flows: fires and fire modeling, pool fire research
  • Stability considerations in turbulent flows

The University of Waterloo Fire Research Group

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John Wen

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Biofuel Combustion
  • CO2 capture and storage
  • Combustion generated particulates
  • Energy utilization and storage technologies
  • Nanotechnology-based energy devices

Emerging Energy Research Laboratory

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Alexander Wong

Associate, Systems Design Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Image processing and data analytics
  • Medical imaging
  • Scanning
  • Sensors and devices
  • Drinking water
  • Autonomous and connected car
  • Automotive
  • Operational Artificial Intelligence
  • Robotics
  • Smart Infrastructure

Vision and Image Processing Laboratory

Personal Website

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William Wong

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Heterogeneous integration
  • Laser processing of materials
  • Materials and devices for flexible electronics
  • Materials and devices for solid-state lighting
  • Nanofabrication for energy conversion and storage, sensing, and nanoelecronics

Giga-to- Nanoelectronics (G2N) Centre

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Mike Worswick

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
519-888-4567 x35830
Location: EC4 1141

Research Expertise

  • High strain rate material behaviour
  • Numerical simulation of vehicle crashworthiness
  • Sheet metal forming and tube hydroforming
  • Structural crashworthiness

Waterloo Forming and Crash Laboratory

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Serhiy Yarusevych

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics
  • Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Flow and Noise Control
  • Fluid Structure Interactions

Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory

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Tze Wei (John) Yeow

Professor, Systems Design Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)/Nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS)
  • Microassembly
  • Nanodevices for biomedical applications
Link to profile: Tze Wei (John) Yeow

Aiping Yu

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Functionalization of carbon nanotubes and graphene
  • Nanomaterials (nanotubes, wires, platelets, and particles) synthesis and processing
  • Nanomaterials for engineering nanocomposites, solar cells, and sensors/actuators

Applied Carbon Nanotechnology Labratory

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John Zelek

Associate Professor Systems Design Engineering

Research Expertise

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

Vision and Image Processing Lab

Personal Website

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Boxin Zhao

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Polymers, interfacial phenomena and surface chemistry
  • Advanced coating and adhesive bonding technology
  • Multifunctional "green" and "smart" materials and processes, additive manufacturing or 3D printing.

Surface Science and Bio-nanomaterials Laboratory

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Norman Zhou

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Diffusion brazing
  • Laser and resistance welding
  • Microjoining: wire bonding, laser and resistance microwelding, soldering, etc.
  • Nanojoining and nanofabrication

​Centre for Advanced Materials Joining

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Weihua Zhuang

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Radio Positioning
  • Wireless communications
  • Wireless Networking

Personal Website

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Chris Shum

Electrical Systems Researcher

Rodolfo Pellizzoni

Associate Professor
519-888-4567 x37513
Location: E5 4113
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Dave Dietz

Director of Engineering Research
519-888-4567 x47303
Location: E7 7422