News archive - 2019

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Special Issue on Musculoskeletal Modeling for Neurorehabilitation

Alongside Professor John McPhee, MoRG alumnus Drs. Naser Mehrabi and Mohammad Shourijeh recently served as Topic Editors for the Special Issue "Advances in Musculoskeletal Modeling and their Application to Neurorehabilitation" in Frontiers in Neurorobotics.

Thursday, October 3, 2019

Professor John McPhee awarded OPEA Medal of Engineering Excellence

John McPhee, Tenured Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics, has been awarded the 2019 Ontario Professional Engineers Association (OPEA) Medal of Engineering Excellence

Thursday, August 15, 2019

Professor John McPhee awarded John R. Evans Leaders Fund by Canada Foundation for Innovation

Professors Arash Arami and John McPhee have been awarded the John R. Evans Leaders Fund by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (valued at $182,000) for their collaborative research “Neuromechanics-Based Assistive Robotics: Towards Optimal Personalized Robotic Assistance”.

Monday, August 5, 2019

MoRG Alumni at International Society of Biomechanics Conference

Motion Research Group reunites with graduate alumni Dr. Matthew Millard, Dr. Mohammad Shourijeh, and Dr. Ajay Seth at 2019 International Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics (TGCS) associated with the International Society of Biomechanics Conference in Calgary, Canada.

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Brok Laschowski recognized at IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics

PhD candidate Brok Laschowski was awarded 4th Prize Best Poster for his research on computer vision and deep learning for autonomous control of robotic lower-limb prostheses and exoskeletons at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (

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