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BSI | Nugget.ai

We’re looking for someone that likes to figure things out! Your mission will be to test and execute activities that increasingly connect users and companies in our platform through marketing and business development techniques. Example activities include but are not limited to: developing and executing innovative ways to launch new task-based challenges (on social media platforms, with targeted ads, etc.); testing different methods of reaching out to new users; collaborating closely with the nugget.ai interdisciplinary team to determine the best content framing to maximize engagement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Arcan Nalca

Student:

Partner:

nugget.ai

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Social-emotional development in early childcare programs

The Teaching Pyramid Model (TPM) was designed as a promotion, prevention, and intervention framework to support the social, emotional, and behavioral development of young children. Successful implementation of the TPM in ELC programs requires staff capacity (e.g., professional development, refresher courses for staff, performance feedback, staff support and family engagement (e.g., providing families with training to teach their children SE skills at home, enhancing parent-staff relationships). The objectives of this project is twofold: (1) to follow the behaviour of children enrolled in Early Learning Care (ELC) programs that have implemented the TPM to explore how it increases child social, emotional, and behavioral skills, and (2) to explore how quality implementation of the TPM intervention (staff capacity and family engagement strategies) will help support staff and families to promote SE skills during early childhood. This research will contribute to ongoing scholarship on early years prevention and intervention of SE problems…

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christina Rinaldi

Student:

Partner:

Getting Ready for Inclusion Today

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Digital Main Street (DMS) Project 1

Covid-19 has impeded many brick-and-mortar businesses, especially the SMEs in Northwest Ontario. The challenging environment calls for change in the business practice to respond to the impact and rejuvenate businesses. Going online is one of the possible solutions supported by technology and market readiness for those businesses. Digital Main Street (DMS), a program and service that helps main street businesses achieve digital transformation, was created by the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas (TABIA) with direct support from the City of Toronto. and co-supported by a group of strategic corporate sponsors, including Google, MasterCard, Rogers, Microsoft and Shopify. The program is built around an online learning platform, structured training programs, and Digital Service Squad, a team of highly trained recent graduates who help main street businesses grow and manage their business through the adoption of digital tools and technology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Naqi Sayed

Student:

Partner:

Thunder Bay Entrepreneur Centre (CEDC)

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Other

University:

Lakehead University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Hardbacon

Hardbacon s’apprête à lancer un nouveau produit afin de répondre au contexte d’incertitude économique créé par la pandémie du Covid-19.
Non seulement les Canadiens sont plus soucieux que jamais de payer moins de frais sur leurs services financiers, mais la plupart des entreprises offrant des comparateurs ont mis fin à leurs programmes d’affiliation en rai-son de la pandémie.
Hardbacon lancera donc au courant des prochaines semaines un comparateur de comptes de banque, de robots-conseillers, de courtiers en ligne, et de CPG.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sylvain Perron

Student:

Partner:

Hardbacon (Montreal)

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Marketing/Business Development Intern

The successful candidate will work in a highly entrepreneurial environment and join a small cross-functional powerful team with a mission of bringing SmartICE innovations to the north. They will work closely with the SmartICE Executive Director, the Marketing/Business Development Intern will assist with development of our business and sustainability plans, creation of promotional and communications materials such as newsletters, social media posts and training materials, etc. As well, due to COVID-19, SmartICE is pivoting the way we communicate to accommodate the inability to travel to northern communities. New communication
strategies are currently being considered and developed and this role will feed into this process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heather Skanes

Student:

Partner:

SmartICE Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Design and Analysis of a Path Planning Algorithm in the Context of Sawing and Grinding Manipulation Tasks

The research project to be undertaken involves the development of a path planner algorithm, given a set of inputs (geometry of a circular saw and a grinding wheel), to produce tool paths (5 axis positions and start and end points for the cut). This algorithm must take into account both single and dual head cutting operations. It will be used to ensure the in-tolerance final dimensions of the sharpened saw. In order to achieve the final goal, the intern will be provided with all the necessary geometry of the machine and the saws to be sharpened.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Jones

Student:

Partner:

Williams and White Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

PET/MR imaging in lung cancer radiotherapy applications, including respiratory motion management strategies

Recently, a new whole-body PET/MRI scanner was developed and installed at St. Joseph’s Healthcare in London, Ontario and remains the only installation in Canada. Two major challenges concerning PET imaging include the need for correcting for loss of photons, called attenuation, due to interactions with patient tissues and the impact of respiratory induced organ/tumour motion during scanning. Corrections for attenuation are currently performed using X-ray CT. We propose that MRI can also be used to create the attenuation map based on a predefined atlas. We aim to compare 3 atlas design strategies and compare the results with CT-based PET reconstructions. We also propose that respiratory motion can be performed during scanning by retrospectively reconstructing 4D-PET using list mode data and 4D-MRI using ultra-fast 2D MR sequences on multiple slices leading to a 3D-PET/MRI scans at multiple phases of the respiratory cycle.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stewart Gaede

Student:

Partner:

Multi Magnetics Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Development, implementation and evaluation of a bulk tank milk surveillance program for infectious and emerging diseases on Ontario dairy farms

The spread of endemic and emerging infectious diseases continues to plague the dairy industry. The convergence of human, animal, and ecosystem interactions results in emergence and re-emergence of diseases in dairy cattle such as salmonellosis and anaplasmosis. Adding to the mix, frequent buying of cattle contributes to rapid dissemination of infectious diseases in dairy cattle. The University of Guelph is exceptionally well-positioned to lead the development and implementation of a surveillance network based on bulk tank milk. Every licensed dairy farm submits milk samples to the Agriculture & Food Laboratory unit at the University of Guelph at least once every 2 days for quality testing and payment. We propose to establish a routine process to access bulk tank samples from Ontario dairy farms and test whether samples are positive for endemic and emerging diseases of interest. Our overarching goal is to work with the Dairy Farmers of Ontario, a farmer-run organization serving dairy producers, and our testing partner Lactanet, to establish a disease surveillance pilot network in Ontario farms, as a way to rapidly identify and respond to the introduction of emerging pathogens. We will work with collaborators in other provinces to move towards a nationally integrated program.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Kelton

Student:

Partner:

Dairy Farmers of Ontario

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Elevate

Development of new methods for screening bioilogics by means of Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) coupled with Mass-Spectrometer (MS) via novel Open Port Probe Sampling Interface (OPP) – Year two

The methods for screening complex biological samples found wide application in pharmaceutics, forensic science and medical science. The majority of these methods involve several analytical techniques coupled together in order to maximize the efficiency of the analysis. For example, the combination of Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) with Mass Spectrometry (MS) creates a new analytical platform (CE-MS) that utilizes the separation power of CE and superior detection abilities of MS. The weak points of such a platform are the poorly developed coupling interface and incompatibility of CE and MS buffers. Thus, existing interfaces suffer from clogging and cannot keep the stable spray pattern, which results in poor reproducibility of the experiments. Incompatibility of CE and MS buffers does not allow analysis of non-volatile solutions, which limits the range of applicable CE approaches and requires additional steps of sample preparation. We are aiming to overcome all listed limitations by developing new CE-MS coupling model that will be utilizing Open Port Probe Sampling Interface (OPP). Next, we’ll be applying CE-MS coupled with OPP for the development of immunological assays and for the screening of disease-related biomarkers in the biological fluids.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Richard Oleschuk

Student:

Partner:

SCIEX

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Elevate

Intelligent Systems Data Ingestion and Analytics

This project will support the development of comprehensive, multidisciplinary Smart Building, Smart Transportation, and Smart City management systems in order to improve energy performance, operations cost, safety and reliability for large infrastructures in the private and public sector.
The research problem to be addressed is to develop effective methods to ingest and analyze massive amounts of streaming data from large numbers of WiFi-connected IoT devices monitoring buildings, vehicles, and transportation corridors within a Smart Campus or Smart City. This heterogeneous data comes in a wide variety of formats, at different sampling rates, in a variety of quantities. It must then be classified according to a strict ontology, stored in cloud-based databases, and recovered on demand for analysis and the computation of comprehensive key performance indicates for use by human operators and machine learning systems.
Our team has access to live streaming data both from real installations in labs and buildings and from Digital Twin simulators, with both IoT devices and Edge servers in the data mix, developed in partnership with academic researchers at partner institutions. FuseForward is working with Ryerson and other local partners to develop an IoT monitoring network on a college campus.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jiannan Wang;Stephen Makonin

Student:

Partner:

FuseForward

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

An independent program evaluation of the Secret Agents Society for youth with ASD

Children and youth with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have severe impairments in social
competency, which can negatively impact quality of life, academic achievement, peer acceptance, and
mental health. Social skills interventions aim to teach youth the social interaction skills necessary to
build and foster relationships with others, and are critical for addressing bullying and associated mental
health problems in youth with ASD. The Geneva Centre for Autism, one of the leading service
providers in Canada, is implementing a multi-component evidence-based social skills training group
(SSTG), the Secret Agents Society, which includes children, parents, and teachers. The proposed
research will evaluate this intervention by collecting data on treatment effectiveness using a pre-postfollow-
up design with children with ASD (8-12 years) who are struggling with social skills. This
research will benefit the Geneva Centre by evaluating the intervention and ensuring that the program is
effective for its participants.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Weiss

Student:

Partner:

Geneva Centre for Autism

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

York University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Development of new methods for screening bioilogics by means of Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) coupled with Mass-Spectrometer (MS) via novel Open Port Probe Sampling Interface (OPP)

The methods for screening complex biological samples found wide application in pharmaceutics, forensic science and medical science. The majority of these methods involve several analytical techniques coupled together in order to maximize the efficiency of the analysis. For example, the combination of Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) with Mass Spectrometry (MS) creates a new analytical platform (CE-MS) that utilizes the separation power of CE and superior detection abilities of MS. The weak points of such a platform are the poorly developed coupling interface and incompatibility of CE and MS buffers. Thus, existing interfaces suffer from clogging and cannot keep the stable spray pattern, which results in poor reproducibility of the experiments. Incompatibility of CE and MS buffers does not allow analysis of non-volatile solutions, which limits the range of applicable CE approaches and requires additional steps of sample preparation. We are aiming to overcome all listed limitations by developing new CE-MS coupling model that will be utilizing Open Port Probe Sampling Interface (OPP). Next, we’ll be applying CE-MS coupled with OPP for the development of immunological assays and for the screening of disease-related biomarkers in the biological fluids.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Richard Oleschuk

Student:

Partner:

SCIEX

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Elevate

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