News

The Motion Research Group's research on reducing UCL strain among baseball pitchers was recently featured on CTV News. Professor John McPhee's interview can be found here.

MASc student Bhavya Giri Goswami presented his thesis on "Compensatory stepping: biomechanical analysis, predictive modelling, and assistance with lower-limb exoskeleton" - Congratulations!

John McPhee, Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and the Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics, has been elected as part of the incoming class of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Fellows for his outstanding scholarly achievements, the highest honour in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences. Congratulations!

PDF researcher AliAsghar MohammadiNasrabadi won the Best Paper Award at the 2025 North American
Spine Society (NASS) International Annual Meeting for his work on "Automated Lenke classification for preoperative spine surgery by extracting anatomical landmarks from X-ray images using a deep learning approach." Congratulations!

MASc candidate Vasylysa Korovkina presented her research on "Active Swimming Prosthesis with IMU-based Wrist Control" at the 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2025).

MASc candidate Bhavya Giri Goswami presented his research on "Compensatory foot placement estimation for impulsive torso perturbation", at the 12th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics at the Technical Campus of the University of Innsbruck. 

MASc student Vasylysa Korovkina presented her thesis on "Active upper-limb prosthesis for swimming" - Congratulations!

MASc student Cedric Attias presented his thesis on "Dynamic modelling and simulation of major league baseball pitching biomechanics to reduce ulnar collateral ligament injury and improve performance" - Congratulations!

Congratulations to Ali Nasr and Professor John McPhee for the publication of "Harnessing Biomechanical Energy Using Shoulder Exoskeleton: Electrical Energy Regeneration" in the Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics.

Join us on Sunday 7:30 pm at Knox Presbyterian Church for Orchestra@UWaterloo Concert: All Beethoven, where MASc student Vasylysa Korovkina will be performing the violin! Admission is free. More details here.