Contacts

Research Expertise

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

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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.

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Research Expertise

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

Precision Controls Laboratory

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

Research Expertise

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

Real-time Embedded Software Group

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

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)

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

Research Expertise

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

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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

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)

Research Expertise

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

Data Systems Group

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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

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Research Expertise

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

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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)

Research Expertise

• Dynamics and Control of Structures
• Non linear structural dynamics
• Micropolar materials modeling
• Composite materials

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

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

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