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Karim Karim

Karim Karim

Professor and Director of the Silicon Thin Film Applied Research Group

Dr. Karim S. Karim is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He has secured more than $15M in research grant funding, trained over 40 PhD and MASc students, and has co-authored 250+ publications and 50+ patents.

He is a founder and Chief Technology Officer of KA Imaging, a University of Waterloo spinoff company that makes innovative X-ray detectors and systems for medical, veterinary, scientific and industrial markets. Dr. Karim has developed novel imaging devices and systems since 1998, and has both supported and founded multiple startups over the past two decades. One of his “color” X-ray innovations is now starting to replace black and white medical X-ray globally, while another is used in ultrasonic fingerprint sensors in mobile phones and tablets.

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Hummer Li

MASc Student

Hummer received his BASc degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from University of Waterloo in 2014.

Jerry Liang

MASc Student

Jerry received his BASc degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from University of Waterloo in 2015. He is now pursuing his MASc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Waterloo, where he is conducting research in the Silicon Thin-film Applied Research (STAR) group under the supervision of Professor Karim S. Karim and Professor Peter Levine. His main research is focusing on low noise readout circuit of amorphous selenium (a-Se) solid state detectors.