In my key research areas, I have demonstrated excellence, leadership and recognition. I, as principal investigator, have successfully secured many competitive grants, including NSERC Discovery Grant. I have published one book chapter, 66 journal papers on high-rank remote sensing journals and 41 conference articles on high-impact conferences.

I have been involved in many invited talks and presentations to different audiences, and I frequently receive reviewer invitations from high-impact remote sensing journals and conferences. I serve as the Associate Editor of Frontiers in Environmental Science (Section: Big Data, AI and the Environment).

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/linlinxu.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/linlinxu

Email: l44xu@uwaterloo.ca

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I hold a BSc. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Ben-Gurion University in Israel as well as a MBA from Technion Institute in Israel. I am a member of Professional Engineeros Ontario (PEO), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT). I have more the 20 years of industrial R&D experience in the areas of analog and digital systems, telecom, data and wireless communication, VLSI chip design, digital mapping systems, video surveillance, automotive electronics, mass production engineering and more. I served as a Director of Research and Development at several companies in the past 20 years.

Currently I am working for the National Research Council – Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). NRC-IRAP is Canada’s premier innovation assistance program for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). (https://nrc.canada.ca/en)
I help Canadian companies to improve their innovation capability by providing advice on technology, the innovation process, business strategy and market opportunities.

Email: shimon.schwartz@nrc.gc.ca

Here in the VIP lab, researchers have been working on new sampling methods as well as reconstruction methods for improving compressed sensing performance for a variety of different applications in medical imaging and remote sensing. An example of a breast MRI reconstructed using one of the algorithms we have developed is shown below. As can be seen, the reconstructed MRI using the method we have developed (right) is sharp, high contrast, have minimal artifacts, provides good preservation of fine tissue details and variations, and does not exhibit staircase artifacts.

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Kazemzadeh, F., and A. Wong, A System, Method and Apparatus for Ultra-resolved Ultra-wide Field-of-view Multispectral and Hyperspectral Holographic Microscopy, , vol. 62155416, USA, April 30, 2015.

Kazemzadeh, F., A. Wong, and S. Haider, Imaging System and Method for Concurrent Multiview Multispectral Polarimetric Light-field High Dynamic Range Imaging, , USA, 2014.

Currently, I am the Associate Dean – Research & External Partnerships within the Faculty of Engineering, responsible for all research related activities in the largest Engineering school in Canada.

Research interests

My research interests are in the fields of computer vision, image processing, and pattern recognition with an emphasis on the automated interpretation of SAR (synthetic aperture radar) and sports analytics (ice hockey).  I am an active interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary researcher, publishing refereed journal and conference papers in the diverse fields of remote sensing, sports analytics, computer vision, algorithm design, and biomechanics. My research efforts have led to successful commercial implementations including creating and selling a startup company (CREZ).

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