Hajar Abedi Email & Phone Number

Waterloo, ON, CA

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Developed a first-of-its-kind contactless senior monitoring system, from Proof of Concept (PoC) to final product
• Led multiple open houses and live demonstrations for private and governmental (i.e. Ontario Minister of Long Term Care) fundraising
• Led the collaboration between a group of physicians and AI/radar engineers to develop AI-interpreted senior disease prediction and detection
• Developed, evaluated, recommended, and implemented procedures for performance improvement

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Led a collaborative study titled “Modeling Activities of Daily Living Using Smart Home Technologies” aimed at enhancing seniors quality of life
• Conducted simulations, validation, and testing at the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging apartment and optimized radar systems to ensure systems & setups meet sensitivity, coverage, and detection requirements

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• In-vehicle Occupancy Detection
• Led the development of AI-powered automotive radar-based sensors for in-cabin Sensing
• Developed a radar-based sensor for detection of unattended infants, toddlers or pets in cars
• Developed machine learning and deep learning models for people counting and positioning in the vehicles
• Developed deep learning models to identify the type of occupants (adults, kids and infants)
• Develop machine learning and deep learning models to identify distracted drivers

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Proposed an unsupervised learning based contactless hallway gait monitoring system

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Involved in a nationwide collaborative first-of-its-kind research study (a bedrest study) on the health impacts of inactivity
• Conducted data collection, analysis, and validation of different sensors in the bedrest study, focusing on biomedical non-contact vital sign detection and gait analysis, demonstrating that RF sensor shows 14-day.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Remote Activity Monitoring and Fall Detection System
• Analysis and validation of mm-wave FMCW MIMO radar sensors operation in fall detection
• Analysis and validation of mm-wave FMCW MIMO radar sensors operation in vital signs monitoring

Bābol, Mazandaran, Iran

• Multiband Energy Harvesting Systems
• Designed a meandered loop antenna at FM and GSM band in CST Microwave Studio
• Fabricated and tested the meandered loop antenna for energy harvesting system

Bābol, Mazandaran, Iran

• Electrical Small Antennas (ESAs) Design
• Designed, fabricated and tested electrical small antennas for MF/HF band

Babol, Mazandaran Province, Iran

• Designed a line-following robot utilizing an AVR microcontroller.
• Developed a human motion detector system employing weight sensors, motion sensors, and an AVR microcontroller.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Engineering, A

Thesis: Autonomous Radar-based Gait Monitoring System • Proposed AI-powered non-contact in-home gait monitoring and activity recognition.

Master Of Science - Ms, Ece- Em Field And Waves, A+

Thesis: Through-the-Wall Imaging using Active and Passive Synthetic Aperture Radars (SAR) • Enhanced target identification and feature.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Ece- Em Field And Waves

Capstone: Designed planar array antennas using optimization methods to reduce the dynamic range ratio while imposing deeper nulls, all.