Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Seven Waterloo Engineering researchers have been awarded Early Research Awards. The announcement is part of larger investment by the Province of Ontario aimed at advancing Ontario’s competitive edge, and included 18 University of Waterloo researchers for a total of $2.5 million.
Each researcher will receive $140,000 over five years plus an additional $50,000 from the University. They are:
- Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir (Chemical Engineering): Simulation-based design and optimization of next-generation liquid crystal display technology
- Hossein Abouee Mehrizi (Management Sciences): A general patient-flow model for strategic hospital capacity and operational planning
- Michal Bajcsy (Electrical and Computer Engineering): Nano-photonic structures for generation, detection, manipulation, and storage of single photons on a chip
- Na Young Kim (Electrical and Computer Engineering): Scalable solid-state quantum information processors
- Guo-Xing Miao (Electrical and Computer Engineering): Topological quantum computing on scalable quantum material platforms
- Michael Reimer (Electrical and Computer Engineering): Nanoscale photonic devices for quantum communication networks
- Alfred Yu (Electrical and Computer Engineering): US-WASRI: Ultrasound wall shear rate imaging for high-frame-rate vascular diagnostics
See the full list of University of Waterloo researchers who received Early Research Awards funding.