Bruce Wallace

PhD, M.Eng., B.E.Sc.

Affiliate Investigator

Executive Director
AGE-WELL NIH SAM3

Adjunct Research Professor
Carleton University

Contract Instructor
Carleton University

Senior Member
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

About:

Bruce Wallace is Executive Director of the AGE-WELL National Innovation Hub on Sensors and Analytics to Monitor Memory and Mobility (SAM3), an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University, and an Affiliated Investigator at Bruyère Health Research Institute. He holds a B.E.Sc. from Western, an M.Eng. and Ph.D. from Carleton University, and has studied business at MIT Sloan and UNC Kenan-Flagler. He is an IEEE Senior Member with more than 20 patents.

He worked 24 years in the technology sector at BNR, Avaya and Nortel including research and development, product and business strategy, and as a business leader with global responsibility.

He leads SAM3 which is a collaboration between the Bruyère Health Research Institute and Carleton University in partnership with the AGE-WELL National Centres of Excellence. Its focus is research and innovation projects focused on technology-based solutions to enable an aging population to maintain a healthy and independent lifestyle. These solutions are co-created with industry, clinical, academic, and older adults and their families.

Within SAM3, he is focused on technology solutions to enable the independence of aging adults. This includes fundamental research on novel sensor designs that include force and pressure sensors through to algorithms using machine learning and AI techniques. The work of SAM3 is founded on a basis of multi-disciplinary research that brings together diverse skills of technology, medicine, social sciences, aging adults and their care team. Together, it builds solutions that are truly focused on the needs of society, and especially the aging population.

Research Interests:

Technology-based solutions for aging in place and independence of aging adults.

Select Publications:

Knoefel F, Trudel C, Jaana M, Wilson C, Wallace RB, Ault L, Waldie P, Attef M, Thomas N, Goubran R, Sveistrup H, Tan P, Hsu A, Ridha S. (2022). Implementation of experimental technology in a hospital transitional care setting. Healthcare Management Forum.

Bennett S, Cohen-McFarlane M, Wallace B, Goubran R, Knoefel F. (2021). The Assessment of Cognitive and Physical Well-Being through Ambient Sensor Measures of Movement Towards Longitudinal Assessment of Activities of Daily Living. IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine.

Cohen-McFarlane M, Bennett S, Wallace B, Goubran R, Knoefel F. (2021). Bed-based Health Monitoring using Pressure Sensitive Technology: A Review. IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine.

Ault L, Goubran R, Wallace B, Lowden H, Knoefel F. (2020). Smart Home Technology Solution for Nighttime Wandering in Persons with Dementia. Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering.

Knoefel F, Wallace B, Goubran R, Sabra I, Marshall S. (2019). Semi-Autonomous Vehicle as a Cognitive Assistive Device for Older Adults. Geriatrics.