Projets novateurs réalisés

Open MIDaaS – Mobile Identity as a Service

I will be working on open MIDaaS project. It stands for Mobile Identity as a Service. The project aims at making a mobile application the centre of user authentication. The app will be like a personal wallet which will store the list of attributes like verified email, address, and phone and credit card numbers. A merchant can request these attributes using push messages, QR code or other means. This will reduce the repetitive form filing and verification steps every time one goes to a new merchant site. I
will also create MIDaaS library and hub. The library will enable any merchant or organization to integrate with open MIDaaS. MIDaaS hub will provide two-way communication between different and anonymous devices. I will also provide integrity solutions for the app and library, to protect the code from hackers. The partner organization will benefit from my knowledge, interest, and prior experience in mobile application development and information technology.

A Novel System to Quantify the Risk of Exposure to Infection in Healthcare Settings Using Wearables

Hand hygiene is the most effective way to prevent infection transmission. This has been even more highlighted in current pandemic where with correct PPE and good HH, families were be able to visit and touch their loved ones. However, adequate HH actions are sometimes neglected due to high workload and time deficiency in healthcare settings. In addition, the measures used to calculate HH performance are not able to fully benefit from the high-resolution data collected by current Electronic Monitoring Systems. The main focus of this proposal is to improve the quality of care by estimating the risk of infection for each patient individually and gently prompting staff to perform hand hygiene when they forget to do so. Therefore, the HCWs will be encouraged to perform HH action and decrease this risk instead of using a negative disciplinary tone that emphasizes their compliance rate. The insights of the system can be used to propose new patient-centered infection control approaches.

Clear vision in minimally invasive surgery

To assist Vope Medical achieve clear vision in surgery, Zishen will be working creating and enhancing a defogging algorithm in accordance with best practices in the relevant literature and optimizing it so it can be run in real-time to enhance contaminated surgical image feeds. Processes will be documented so they can used to track what has been developed.

Retaining Diverse Employees at Technology Companies

The current research project aims to investigate internal communication among organizations in the IT industry and whether communication experiences are different among minorities and women in the organizations. A diverse workplace is important to facilitate an inclusive, productive, and healthy workplace. However, no study has looked at how communication to women and diverse employees may be different than majority groups. The objective of this study is to understand how communication may differ quantitatively (response time, word count, etc.) and qualitatively (content of the messages) between diverse employees and women compared to majority groups and males. Using proprietary technology to assess communication dynamics from thirty-to-fifty Canadian technology companies through the Vize Technology platform. The study aims to shed light on the unconscious bias that occurs in internal communications between traditional tech employees and women/BIPOC hires. The findings from the research will be used to inform organizations of implicit biases in their workforce for targeted training plans or interventions and subsequently increase the retention of women and diverse employees.

Lab Assistant for R&D Drosophila Lab

Main Purpose:
The main purpose of the internship is to assist with the development of research protocols for the fruit fly.
Tasks / Key Results Expected:
1. Establish a biological laboratory – Equipment set up, qualification and record.
2. Establish optimized drosophila melanogaster growing environment conditions using agile project management
methodology
3. Create novel experimental protocols and SOP based on business gap analysis and experimental observations
4. Observe, monitor and record drosophila melanogaster growing and behavioural activities
5. Acquire necessary laboratory skills for drosophila melanogaster feeding, anaesthesia, sex recognition,
and that required to achieve fly genetic crosses, such as virgin flies and genetically modified fly selection
• Other responsibilities as assigned by their supervisor.

Benefit to Organization:
The protocols and flows will be an essential part of our business to continuously produce model systems for the study of human neurodegenerative diseases, which PurMinds Neuropharma seeks to gain advanced knowledge of. The relative simplicity of the Drosophila systems and genetics makes it ideal for creating animal models of complex neurodegenerative disorders. It has emerged as model system for studying mechanisms of neurodegeneration in several major neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), etc. Genetic studies using these animal models have provided novel insights into the disease process. Multiple rigorous assays to score neurodegeneration can be used in Drosophila, providing reliable measurements for the effects of the disease process. These studies will help PurMinds Neuropharma in developing drugs to treat these neurodegenerative diseases.

Web UI & Graphic Design of Glo3D website, web app and smartphone application platform, also creating marketing and promotional materials

The goal of the project is to use the Design Thinking framework as a guide to creating effective marketing and website materials that will help strengthen Glo3D’s brand image and broaden our reach as we enter new verticals. The candidate will be tasked to learn about the users of our software, as well as our company brand and style to create pieces that will attract our target markets. They will gain a better understanding of user experience(UX), website design principles and become experts in PhotoShop, Illustrator and more. As they develop these skills they will need to communicate the Glo3D brand and tell stories with their designs using 3 key qualifiers:
• Is it useful?
• Is it clear?
• Is it pleasing?

Tuck’s Bee Better Farm Marketing Plan for Agrotourism

Tuck’s Bee Better Farm was incorporated in 2013. The farm supplies stores all across the island with honey, cranberry juice, and various other products with honey as an ingredient, and various wax products. It is a small family run business that has an opportunity to grow but does not have in house marketing expertise.
Tuck’s Bee Better Farm is planning to expand and market the various honey products as well as to incorporate a café, shopping, and tourist visiting. The facility has the space ready but does not have a marketing plan to launch it. Having an intern with a keen interest in business and marketing will be crucial in order for us to expand and tap into the tourism market.

Marketing and Data Analytics Innovative Systems Implementation

The past two years have shown increasing distrust through online division, polarizing protests and strikes, and destructive riots. This problem has gotten worse due to our unverified, disorganized, and time consuming citizen and stakeholder engagement systems; especially social media, focus groups and town halls, and voting. In order to solve the problem of increasing distrust Veras has developed a platform that provides verified, targeted, and ongoing proactive engagement, Veras Technologies Inc. will work with intern Francisco de paula Nieto to implement a digital marketing and online data analytics strategy to help convert more users and customers and commercialize the verified citizen and stakeholder engagement platform. The intern will first implement a social media, website, and blog marketing campaign to establish an online presence for the company. Then the intern will implement a SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and data analytics process to measure progress and marketing campaign effectiveness. Veras hopes to use this project to get more users and customers onto their platform. The intern hopes to utilize this project to grow his technical, professional, and interdisciplinary skills that will provide himself a professional work environment foundation to advance the transferable skills needed to advance his career.

Strategic Marketing Plans for the Yorkton Brick Mill Heritage Society

The Yorkton Brick Mill Heritage Society would like to develop a comprehensive and innovative marketing strategy to build on the work of the volunteer-run Mill Society. The marketing plan will be targeted at four broad groups, tourism, donors, community groups and schools. Each target market will require a different approach, some will partially overlap. The goal is to create a community organization that contributes to the social fabric of the region, providing insight and educational resources into the history of the Yorkton Brick Flour Mill and bringing it into the present and future by considering the continuing influence of modern agriculture.

Business Development & Strategy Intern

The project will focus on developing expansion strategies as Doggy Bathroom enters the European market and hosts pop up shops throughout North America. The project will focus on creating business development strategies to aid with the rollout of these projects. The main goal of the company is to continue growing the brand awareness throughout North America and break into the European market. The innovation to be developed is a business model catered for Europe (through logistics, feasibility, warehouse management, market research, marketing) and North America. The methodologies that will be used are various business frameworks and processes that will help Doggy Bathroom determine the needs of the business and an implementation strategy.

Valorisation des mégots de cigarettes

Fondée en 2020, Sumeco Solutions Inc est une start-up montréalaise ayant pour mission de trouver des alternativbes et des solutions à la crise environnementale au Québec. Sumeco Solutions a lancé le Projet Ciga qui a pour but de récupérarer et de transformer les mégots de cigarettes. Sumeco Solutions désire donner une seconde vie aux déchets (mégots) et, part l’étude effectuée par l’étudiant, identifier la seconde vie la plus avantageuse ainsi que les alternatives à prendre en considération. Sumeco Solutions désire également travailler avec l’École Polytechnique de Montréal pour l’analyse et l’identification de d’autre processus de transformation ainsi que de processus de récupération des mégots de cigarettes. Ces activités seront chapeautées par le Dr. Mario Jolicoeur.
Le travail qui sera effectué par l’étudiant(e) permettra d’analyser les méthodes présentement utilisées pour la récupération et le traitement des mégots, de monter une étude comparative afin de cibler les alternatives à considérer par l’entreprise. Ces résutlats permettront de définir les bases technologiques de l’entreprise qui pourront être utilisées par Sumeco Solutions et qui pourront aider à orienter la suite des activités de développement. Sumeco désire débuter le processus de développement avec une solution locale qui présenterait Un ensemble de plus-values, tant pour l’environement que pour la santé publique du Québec. Sumeco vise ainsi la réduction des rejets toxiques dans l’environnement tout en minimisant l’empreinte environnementale du cycle de vie des mégots.

Fishing for Success Best Practices

Fishing for Success (F4S) is a community-based nonprofit social enterprise that works to transmit the intangible cultural heritage of Newfoundland & Labrador’s family fishery while advocating for an inclusive, gender-equitable & sustainable small-scale fishery that can help combat climate change and contribute to food sovereignty through better local seafood access. By partnering with academic researchers, ocean industry organizations, and other nonprofit groups, Fishing for Success has been able to magnify the impact of its work and highlight the very real benefits of fishing for everyone in our community. Programs of Fishing for Success have been copied and brought to places as far away as Japan, identified by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health as a “promising practice,” and recognized for the contribution to academic research by Memorial University of Newfoundland’s President’s Award for public engagement partnership. All this rapid growth and success, though, brings a challenge! This project will provide access for MITACS interns to learning and accessing connections within a dynamic social enterprise, while they contribute to its foundational success and future growth through the production of a Best Practices Guide that can be shared with other communities.