Contact:
E7 3427, University of Waterloo
200 University Ave W, N2L 3G1
Email:
arash[dot]arami[at]uwaterloo[dot]ca
If you are interested in joining us as a postdoc, please see this for fellowships.
News
May 2020
Julia Goyal obtained the Prestigious
SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (CGS-D).
We published the first systematic measurement of hip joint viscoelasticity in isometric condition in IEEE TNSRE (Twitter link).
April 2020
Our paper on Hip Neuromechanics was accepted in IEEE Trans on Neural System and Rehab Engineering (link1, link2).
Our paper on Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation for Activities of Daily Living is accepted in EMBC 2020.
March 2020
In a collaboration with the Structural Biomechanics Lab we secured CBB fund to investigate orthopedic implant loosening.
February 2020
Cederick Landry won the first place award in 3MT (3-minute thesis) competition (Twitter link)
2 papers got accepted in CSME 2020.
January 2020
Our paper on predictive dynamical modeling of blood pressure waveform was published in IEEE Sensors Journal (link).
Jiacheng (Sola) Weng joined the lab as a new MASc student.
December 2019
An article about our new gait freezing prediction algorithm was published in CSME Bulletin, Fall 2019, page 17 (Bulletin link, article link).
October 2019
Our paper on Shoulder robotic simulator was published in ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, for an issue in Jan 2020 (link).
Our paper on Blood Pressure Waveform Estimation was published in IEEE EMBC 2019 Proceedings (link).
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September 2019
Our paper on Prediction of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease was published in IEEE Transactions on Neural System and Rehabilitation Engineering, (link).
Mohammad Shushtari joined the Neuromechanics and Assistive Robotics Lab as a new PhD student.
Winnie Wu and Muneeb Qadri joined the lab as new Undergrad Research Assistants.
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August 2019
A new journal paper was accepted in IEEE Transactions on Neural System and Rehabilitation Engineering, on the topic of prediction of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease (early access).
A paper was published in the proceedings of IEEE ICORR 2019, Toronto, on the effect of visual information on bimanual motor tasks.
Arash Arami presented the work on Detection of Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s disease: an investigation on the role of different feature families in ISB 2019, Calgary.
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July 2019
A new Journal paper was accepted in Journal of Biomechanical Engineering about a robotic glenohumeral simulator.
Cederick Landry presented his work on Estimation of the Blood Pressure Waveform using Electrocardiography at EMBS 2019, Berlin.
Congratulation team OKO haptics: Udayan Sarin, Curtis Lambert, Jessie Dhillon and Hernando Castano for winning the Baylis Medical Award.
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June 2019
Congratulation Cederick Landry and teammates for winning the first place award in CBB Bio-Hackathon 2019.
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May 2019
Appearance in Waterloo Research News:
Arash Arami received the prestigious New Frontiers in Research Fund.
Arash Arami gave a talk about personalized assistive robotics at Toronto Rehab Institute as a part of Jousse Lecture Series.
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March 2019
Team Akomodi won the I-beam prize for their design of a multi-purpose wheelchair for CP children.
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February 2019
Arash Arami was awarded the CBB Seed Fund.
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November 2018
Robotics Manipulator course (ME547) will be given in Winter 2019.
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September 2018
A new graduate course titled Human Movement Neuromechanics (ME 780) is given in Fall 2018, 2019, ....
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July 2018
Arash Arami gave a talk in a CBB workshop.
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March 2018
Arash Arami gave an invited talk at Grand River hospital.
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January 2018
New publication in Annals of Biomedical Engineering: Knee Implant Loosening Detection: A Vibration Analysis Investigation.