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We strongly value the importance of interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and ethics. Our research philosophy is transitional research from bench to the bedside. Therefore, we are always looking to collaborate with talented students, faculties, researchers, clinicians, and industry.
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News
Photoacoustic Remote Sensing (PARS®) on the CTV news :
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March 2022:
Development of PARS the second generation (Photoacoustic/Photon Absorption Remote Sensing) Microscopy featured in BioPhotonics Magazine: Photoacoustic Remote Sensing Reveals Clues About Cancer, Blindness.
March 2022:
Research Infosource: Researchers’ Corner. 20/20 innovation Vision: Looking Back and Moving Forward. The feature article focused on Canada's Recovery - Research is Key - contributions, efforts, achievements, and challenges of our top research performers moving Canada into its recovery stage post pandemic.
March 2022:
Our paper published in Scientific Reports, "Functional and structural ophthalmic imaging using noncontact multimodal photoacoustic remote sensing microscopy and optical coherence tomography," is one of the top 100 most downloaded physics papers that were published in 2021. See the full list here!
January 2022:
IEEE Pulse magazine highlighted PARS and PhotoMedicine Labs research in the field of ophthalmology: Looking Disease in the Eye.
December 2021:
“SYDE Professor wins two awards.” Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) Professor Parsin Haji Reza was awarded the Engineering Research Excellence Award from the Faculty of Engineering and the Friend of Natalie Award from the Waterloo Engineering Society.
Development of PARS the second generation (Photoacoustic/Photon Absorption Remote Sensing) Microscopy featured in BioPhotonics Magazine: Photoacoustic Remote Sensing Reveals Clues About Cancer, Blindness.
March 2022:
Research Infosource: Researchers’ Corner. 20/20 innovation Vision: Looking Back and Moving Forward. The feature article focused on Canada's Recovery - Research is Key - contributions, efforts, achievements, and challenges of our top research performers moving Canada into its recovery stage post pandemic.
March 2022:
Our paper published in Scientific Reports, "Functional and structural ophthalmic imaging using noncontact multimodal photoacoustic remote sensing microscopy and optical coherence tomography," is one of the top 100 most downloaded physics papers that were published in 2021. See the full list here!
January 2022:
IEEE Pulse magazine highlighted PARS and PhotoMedicine Labs research in the field of ophthalmology: Looking Disease in the Eye.
December 2021:
“SYDE Professor wins two awards.” Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) Professor Parsin Haji Reza was awarded the Engineering Research Excellence Award from the Faculty of Engineering and the Friend of Natalie Award from the Waterloo Engineering Society.
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Welcome to the PhotoMedicine Labs in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
Welcome to the PhotoMedicine Labs (PML) in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo. In September 2018, Professor Parsin Haji Reza started the PML with the long-term vision of growing it to become a hub in the field of biomedical optics and medical imaging. PML is interested in designing and developing novel engineering systems for clinical and pre-clinical biomedical applications. These new technologies aim to provide clinicians and researchers with novel capabilities and information that is presently difficult/impossible to obtain with existing techniques.
Dr. Parsin Haji Reza's research philosophy is translational research from bench to bedside. Therefore, he built the foundation of PML on translational research activities. In that end, we run a truly interdisciplinary research program. We research, design, and develop our entire hardware and software systems in PML. This includes but not limited to research activities in state-of-the-art optical imaging systems, photoacoustic, nonlinear optics, optical sensing, fiber-optics, data acquisition, electronics, software development, image processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, ultrasound, instrument control, and analytical and computational modeling. We also design, perform and analyze significant pre-clinical and clinical experiments and activities. PML currently consists of several laboratories (Discovery Lab, Imaging Lab, Machine learning and image processing lab, In-vivo Lab, Pre-clinical lab and Pathology lab). We are working to double our research activities by the end of 2021.
Our group continually strive to maintain an extremely dynamic, respectful, intellectual, fun, and creative environment. We are passionate about our research and enjoy working together as a team. Our goal is to bring talents and good ideas together to make a difference and contribute to our society. We understand that this requires hard work, knowledge, creativity, teamwork, efficiency, honesty, and focus.
Dr. Parsin Haji Reza's research philosophy is translational research from bench to bedside. Therefore, he built the foundation of PML on translational research activities. In that end, we run a truly interdisciplinary research program. We research, design, and develop our entire hardware and software systems in PML. This includes but not limited to research activities in state-of-the-art optical imaging systems, photoacoustic, nonlinear optics, optical sensing, fiber-optics, data acquisition, electronics, software development, image processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, ultrasound, instrument control, and analytical and computational modeling. We also design, perform and analyze significant pre-clinical and clinical experiments and activities. PML currently consists of several laboratories (Discovery Lab, Imaging Lab, Machine learning and image processing lab, In-vivo Lab, Pre-clinical lab and Pathology lab). We are working to double our research activities by the end of 2021.
Our group continually strive to maintain an extremely dynamic, respectful, intellectual, fun, and creative environment. We are passionate about our research and enjoy working together as a team. Our goal is to bring talents and good ideas together to make a difference and contribute to our society. We understand that this requires hard work, knowledge, creativity, teamwork, efficiency, honesty, and focus.
University of Waterloo and the Department of Systems Design Engineering provide unique opportunities for students who value creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and enjoy working in a cutting-edge interdisciplinary research environment.
**Please note: Only candidates who are successful in the application process and invited for an interview will be contacted by us via email. **
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**Please note: Only candidates who are successful in the application process and invited for an interview will be contacted by us via email. **
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PhotoMedicine labs is an advocate for equity and is committed to ensuring representation in its team. We welcome applications from members of visible minorities, women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities.