John Yeow, PEng

John Yeow is a Professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering and is cross-appointed to Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He is also the Director of the Advanced Micro & Nanodevice Lab at the university and holds the Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nanodevices.

Professor Yeow’s research expertise lies in Micro-/Nano- Electro Mechanical systems. He aims to develop mechanical machines that are integrated with microelectronics at the micron scale. New device concepts include, but are not limited to: the integration of micro-optics components, miniature signal processing devices, biomedical/genome processing devices, miniature electromechanical wireless components (filters, mixers, antennas), miniature opto-electromechanical devices (optical cross connect, optical relays, optical multiplexers, deformable optics), miniature biosensors and environmental sensors, and microfluidics devices. Professor Yeow also explores issues such as self-testing, self-assembly, and automated packaging.

He is currently developing nanodevices and highly selective sensors that will help create new medical instruments for diagnosing and treating disease. These include MEMS optical scanner for endoscopic optical coherence tomographic imaging, micromirror devices for genetic microarray reading and tissue imaging, robotics for micromanipulations of MEMS components, carbon nanotube-based sensors for biomedical applications, and lab-on-a-chip designs.

Additionally, Professor Yeow’s company ARTsensing Inc. has commercialized an invention which is a product of his research – the world’s first transparent and flexible radiation detector that measures ionizing radiation delivered to cancer patients during treatment.

In addition to his many accomplishments, Professor Yeow was the recipient of the Young Engineer Award from the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers in 2008.

• MEMS\/NEMS

• Optomechatronic Systems

• Biomedical Sensors

• Lab-on-a-chip

• BioMEMS

• Microassembly

• Microelectromechanical Systems

• Robot Mechantronic Design

• Microsystem

• Advanced Manufacturing

• Nanotechnology

• Biomedical

• Gas Sensors

• Radiation Sensors

• Radiation Shields

• X-ray

• Ultrasound

• Optical Devices

• 2003, Doctorate PhD, University of Toronto, Ontario

• 1999, Master's MASc, University of Toronto, Ontario

• 1997, Bachelor's BASc, University of Toronto, Ontario

• 2004 University of Waterloo Distinguished Performance Award

• 2004 NSERC Innovation Challenge Award (National Award)

• 2005 University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award

• 2005 The Douglas R. Colton's Medal of Research Excellence

• 2005 Student Paper Finalist, IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation

• 2006 Early Researcher Award, Ministry of Research and Innovation

• 2007 7T6 Early Career Achievement Award, University of Toronto Engineering Alumni Association

• 2008 The Young Engineer Medal, Professional Engineering Ontario (PEO)

• 2008 Senior Membership, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

• BME 122 - Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Taught in 2026
• BME 364 - Engineering Biomedical Economics
  • Taught in 2021, 2024
• BME 386 - The Physics of Medical Imaging
  • Taught in 2022, 2023
• MTE 140 - Algorithms and Data Structures
  • Taught in 2026
• NANO 606 - Advanced MicroElectroMechanical Systems: Physics, Design & Fabrication
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• NE 461 - Micro and Nano-instrumentation
  • Taught in 2022
• SYDE 682 - Advanced MicroElectroMechanical Systems: Physics, Design & Fabrication
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Lu, Limin and Chen, Chen and Samarasekera, Champika and Yeow, John TW, Influence of zeolite shape and particle size on their capacity to adsorb uremic toxin as powders and as fillers in membranes, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B: Applied Biomaterials, , 2016

• Luo, Hua and Sun, Weijie and Yeow, John TW, Modelling and adaptive dynamic sliding mode control of dielectrophoresis-based micromanipulation, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 014233121, 2016

• Wong, Lawrence LP and Na, Shuai and Chen, Albert I and Li, Zhenhao and Macecek, Mirek and Yeow, John TW, A feasibility study of piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers fabrication using a multi-user MEMS process, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 430, 2016

• Yeow, John TW, Effective and Efficient [The Editor's Desk], IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, 4, 2016

• Li, Zhenhao and Chen, Siyuan and Nambiar, Shruti and Sun, Yonghai and Zhang, Mingyu and Zheng, Wanping and Yeow, John TW, PMMA/MWCNT nanocomposite for proton radiation shielding applications, Nanotechnology, 234001, 2016