Innovative Projects Realized

Business Analyst

We are a pre-revenue startup and looking to hire an intern to join our team. We were in the process of raising money for our company, but due to the COVID situation, we could not successfully raise the sufficient funding we needed to develop our technology. Thus, we could not hire more employees and we were slow done. This intern will help us to accelerate the process of our development and take our product to the market as soon as possible. Some additional projects that I will be working on include: market research, strategy planning, creating content/blog posts, and managing social media.

Sensor-based Collision-Free Motion Planning and Control for Autonomous Cart Pullers at Advanced Intelligent Systems (AIS)

The objective is to develop and implement safe navigation algorithms and frameworks for autonomous cart pullers that are supposed to move planted pots on carts within an unknown and dynamically-changing environment in plant nurseries. The cart puller operation needs to be done safely in an environment that is shared by other vehicles, nursery utilities such as planted pots, and human operators. In this regard, the developed software- and hardware-based framework should be capable to overcome following challenges: (1) perform perception using on board LiDAR and camera vision, (2) construct a safe global path between current state of the cart puller and its desired destination, (3) develop dynamic/local motion planning algorithms to avoid collision with obstacles, (4) generate control commands for trajectory tracking, and (5) integration of all modules. In this project, it is intended to use Robot Operating System (ROS) as the basic software framework for developed motion planning and control algorithms. Also for real-time purposes, Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2) is planned to be used alongside ROS1.

High power density motor and converter for electric cars

Governments around the globe are pressing the automotive industry to reach lower emission and better efficiency with various specifications targets and regulations. With the increasing amount of electric vehicle models that are available and the higher demand on the market, major OEMs are looking for components to differentiate themselves and offer competitive solutions. As the electric traction motors and converters are relatively new components in the automotive industry, significant technological steps are observed in the industry regarding the power density and efficiency improvement. An integrated, high-density traction system, including a power converter and motor, will be developed allowing DANA TM4 to improve its products portfolio and demonstrate its technological leadership as a major tier 1.

Data & Research Intern

COVID-19 has had a dramatic effect on the finance industry, simply due to the industry being driven by “”in person””
meetings with teams, clients and customers as their core method of operating. The industry has been forced to adapt to
new circumstances, as physical office locations are shut down (us included), and in-person group and individual meetings
have been unable to take place. It has forced companies to find new ways to continue to operate efficiently, remotely, and
harness new and effective means of digital operations and infrastructure to keep things going.

Data & Research Specific Responsibilities
In depth research and data compilation of private capital markets financings in Canada and the US
Private capital markets financings, total amounts, by country and by sector
Analysis of tokenized securities offerings vs traditional public equity offerings (equivalent)
Digital securities research – total number of offerings, amounts raised, by industry and geographic region as well as clients the are potential users and capital raisers of digital securities. Design of specific propositions for potential clients of digital securities.

EVestG Optimization as a diagnostic tool for Meniere’s disease

Dizziness is among the top three reasons that patients seek medical attention, and one of the
most common disabling conditions that humans face. One of the diseases that may cause
dizziness is Meniere’s disease, which its correct and timely diagnosis and separation from
other causes of dizziness with current techniques are quite challenging. On the other hand,
Electrovestibulography (EVestG) is a new technique for recording vestibular responses in the
ear, and has shown very encouraging results for to show EVestG signals being capable of
discerning Meniere’s disease for both bilateral and unilateral impairments. This study is to
optimize the EVestG experimental protocol specific as a Meniere’s diagnostic test. We will
analyze data of all different stimuli of the current protocol EVestG recording, and select the
characteristic features that have the maximum relevancy and minimum redundancy for
shortening and optimizing the recording protocol to 2 or 3 stimuli instead of the 7 current
stimuli. We will then develop a pattern…TOBECONT’D

Financial Modelling Intern

Scale Enterprises Ltd provides assistance to non-profits, charities and social enterprises to diversify their revenue streams and become more enterprising. This role will primarily cover two key tasks:
1. Provide support to the Survive and Thrive program by assisting organizations with their different financial modelling and scenario planning, and developing templates that can be adjusted and scaled out across the sector — this role will be closely supervised by a highly knowledgeable team;
2. Looking at private/non-profit partnership models around real estate acquisition– this will require base research and analysis, and financial modelling of different scenarios.

Development of Deep Learning-based Speech Recognition Algorithm for FPGA

Automatic speech recognition (ASR)-based services have become an indispensable part of our daily life, thanks to products such as Apple Siri, Google Home, and Amazon Alexa. More and more smart home appliances are also controlled by voice. However, most of these services rely on speech recognition and natural language understanding services running in the cloud, but this introduces delay that sometimes is not acceptable. There are also some applications where there is no WiFi or cellular network to connect to the cloud. Therefore there is a need to develop a local speech recognition system with high performance. In this project, we will develop a deep learning neural network-based speech recognition algorithm using the latest technologies that are suitable for embedded systems, such as the Transformer. We will then work with the partner company to port the algorithm into a FPGA- based System on Chip (SoC) product.

Summer Analyst

The project would involve assisting the analysts to create models to forecast metal prices in this highly uncertain and volatile environment, analyzing the business and revenue model of companies under coverage, and identifying key risks, collecting market data and analyze market conditions and the impact of COVID-19 on the sectors/companies under coverage, financial statement analysis and assist in our analysts to estimate inputs for our valuation model and helping develop sensitivity and scenario analysis to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the revenue and earnings of companies under coverage.

Fundamental Research Corp provides the highest institutional quality equity research coverage on over 415 small and micro-cap public companies. The company believes a major problem in this highly volatile stock market environment (due to COVID-19) is that investors are likely to jump into opportunities without clearly knowing or understanding the impact of this pandemic. Therefore, they have significantly expanded the research process during this period to identify all the possible short-term and long-term risks (market and company-specific) associated with an investment opportunity and inform our findings to the investment community.

Business Analyst Internship

The project asks the student to understand the gymnastic club situations based on historical and current datasets, provide effective insights or recommendations from the company data and help the company make strategic plans to ensure its revenue.
During the internship, the student is expected to use analytical softwares or tools to solve business problems, including but not limited to, building prediction models and forecasting revenue. In addition, it is also important that the student needs to interpret organized data tables or analytical results with user-friendly language, so that the organization would be able to understand and directly apply the recommendations or insights with its strategic plan. Last, the student is required to present his analysis results to academic advisors and partner organization in a weekly basis, to ensure the project progress.

The organization is expected to provide their historical and current data information to the student. After the internship, the organization would have a deeper understanding of both its financial and operational situations from a data perspective. According the analytic results provided by the student, the organization would have a clearer idea about the weakness and strengths of its current business strategy.

Marketing and Brand Strategy Intern

Mploy is a technology firm that provides mobile solutions for the hospitality industry to recruit workers faster, cheaper and easier than using traditional static job boards.

In this project, the Intern is supposed to:
Drive the launch of our new solution focused on COVID-19 contact-less recruiting
– Set specific marketing goals that align with the overall direction and business goals
– Develop and maintain digital marketing campaigns to build the sales funnel
– Track and measure outcomes of campaigns to assess effectiveness, sales, retention, and ROI with the objective of achieving channel optimization
– Create an app engagement model using cohort analysis to identify trends and new opportunities.
– Create messaging content for both digital and printed marketing materials including website content.
– Research market to identify new opportunities in other regions or verticals
– Develop business cases to support new marketing strategies, budget requests, projects, and marketing plans
– Ensure brand alignment to increase overall brand awareness and word of mouth.
– Conduct in-depth research to identify new market opportunities and consumer preferences to support campaign creations

Supply Chain Coordinator

3DQue Systems automates most FFF/FDM 3D printers to enable 24/7 unsupervised production runs from digital to ready part (removed from print bed, ready for use). Due to disrupted supply chains, there is a supply shortage for the increase of COVID-19 related medical devices and accessories. As the supply chain coordinator I will be managing the procurement and distribution of these essential medical devices and accessories. Additionally, I am in charge of streamlining the operations and improve the traceability of the operations and distribution.

Business Strategy Intern

Kranked Bikes is a manufacturer of proprietary electric motor kit systems for high-end mountain bikes. The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on our supply chain and our retail distribution development. However, the maturing ‘new normal’ has brought an unprecedented surge in ebike sales and an intern is essential to our efforts to ramp up and both refine and execute on our go-to-market strategy. The internship scope will include refining our go-to-market strategy, which is a mixed B2C and B2B approach, as well as executing on the final strategy with project management related to business development and sales campaigns.