Peter M. Levine
Peter
M.
Levine
joined
the
Department
of
Electrical
and
Computer
Engineering
as
an
Assistant
Professor
in
March
2011
and
is
Principal
Investigator
of
the
Bioelectronic
Systems
Laboratory.
He
received
the
B.Eng.
in
Computer
Engineering
and
M.Eng.
in
Electrical
Engineering
from
McGill
University
in
2002
and
2004,
respectively.
In
2009
he
received
the
Ph.D.
in
Electrical
Engineering
(with
Distinction)
from
Columbia
University.
His
doctoral
work
focused
on
the
design
of
complementary
metal-oxide-semiconductor
(CMOS)
biochips
for
electrochemical
DNA
sensor
arrays.
Before
coming
to
the
University
of
Waterloo,
he
worked
as
a
Research
Engineer
in
integrated
circuit
and
sensor
design
for
the
biotechnology
start-up
Ion
Torrent
(now
part
of
Life
Technologies),
which
commercialized
the
first
non-optical
semiconductor-integrated
genome
sequencer.
His
research
interests
include
CMOS-integrated
biochemical
assays
and
integrated
microsystems
for
clinical
and
environmental
monitoring.
He
was
a
recipient
of
the
Intel
Foundation
Ph.D.
Fellowship
in
2005.
To
learn
more
about
Professor
Levine,
please
visit
his
profile
page.
Stephen
L.
Smith
Stephen
L.
Smith
joined
the
ECE
Department
in
March
2011
as
an
Assistant
Professor.
His
main
research
interests
lie
in
the
control
of
autonomous
systems,
with
a
particular
emphasis
on
robotic
motion
planning,
optimization,
and
distributed
coordination.
Prior
to
arriving
at
Waterloo
he
was
a
postdoctoral
researcher
in
the
Computer
Science
and
Artificial
Intelligence
Laboratory
at
the
Massachusetts
Institute
of
Technology
(MIT).
He
received
a
PhD
degree
from
the
University
of
California,
Santa
Barbara,
in
2009,
an
MASc
degree
from
the
University
of
Toronto,
in
2005,
and
a
BSc
degree
from
Queen's
University,
in
2003.
To
learn
more
about
Professor
Smith,
please
visit
his
profile
page.
