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Comparing Canadian and British Responses to Election Cyber Threats

Cyber threats targeting democratic elections have escalated globally, manifesting as informational attacks (misinformation, disinformation) and technical attacks (hacking, data breaches). While governments recognize the need for comprehensive responses encompassing legislative, policy, and administrative measures, existing research focuses narrowly on national-level analysis or single response types, limiting identification of best practices.
This proposal offers a comparative study of Canadian and British responses to election cyber threats, asking: (1) How robust are their response mechanisms? (2) What are their comparative strengths and weaknesses? Both Commonwealth democracies have experienced election-targeted cyber threats, including Canada’s 2011 robocall scandal and 2021 foreign interference, and the UK’s 2016 Brexit misinformation campaigns and 2021-2022 Electoral Commission breach affecting 40 million voters. The research will employ a performance evaluation framework using criteria from international bodies including the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and the Commonwealth Secretariat. The data sources for this proposal include legislation, policy documents, administrative reports, and semi-structured interviews with election officials. Cyber threat responses will be benchmarked against identified “gold standards” in the form of a policy evaluation matrix to assess their robustness. This project will provide evidence-based insights for developing robust, coordinated approaches to protect democratic institutions from evolving cyber threats.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Aaron Erlich

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

University of East Anglia

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Cyber Security; Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Pruning-Aware CryptoKAN Models for Privacy-Preserving Intrusion Detection

This project explores how advanced artificial intelligence models can analyze network traffic while keeping sensitive data fully encrypted. Building on recent research using CryptoKAN neural networks, the project studies whether model compression techniques can make encrypted intrusion detection faster and more practical without reducing detection accuracy. The intern will first adapt and evaluate encrypted AI models for detecting cyberattacks, then apply pruning methods to reduce their computational cost. The results will help academic researchers better understand the trade-offs between privacy, security, and efficiency, while providing practical insights for institutions seeking secure data analysis solutions that do not expose confidential information.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Chamseddine Talhi

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

École Nationale Polytechnique

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Artificial Intelligence; Cyber Security; Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

Université :

École de technologie supérieure

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Détection automatique des émotions en conversation pour des simulations éducatives en criminologie

Ce projet d’innovation vise à développer un module d’intelligence artificielle capable de détecter et classer automatiquement les émotions dans des conversations, afin d’améliorer une plateforme canadienne de simulation pour la formation en criminologie. Le ou la stagiaire concevra et validera un système qui analyse les échanges textuels entre un apprenant et des agents conversationnels (témoin, suspect, victime, etc.) pour identifier de façon fiable des émotions comme la frustration, la tristesse ou la tension. Pour l’organisme partenaire, cette avancée permettra d’offrir des simulations plus réalistes et pédagogiquement plus efficaces, en soutenant l’intégration d’avatars sensibles au contexte émotionnel. Sur le plan sociétal, le projet contribue à renforcer la formation de personnel hautement qualifié au Canada et à améliorer les pratiques d’intervention et d’enquête, tout en favorisant le développement de technologies éducatives responsables et transférables à d’autres secteurs sensibles (p. ex. formation professionnelle, services sociaux, assistance numérique).

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Amine Trabelsi

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Atomic Learning

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université de Sherbrooke

Programme :

Business Strategy Internship

Exploring Organizational Design and Interprofessional Collaboration in Team-Based Primary Care: A Qualitative Case Study in BC

In Canada, primary care is mostly delivered by family physicians and nurse practitioners (NP) through family and walk-in clinics. These services provide first-contact access, ongoing management of common and chronic conditions, and referrals to specialists, while also emphasizing prevention. While the foundation of an effective health system, nearly 27% of BC residents do not have a family doctor or NP, adding stress to emergency rooms and clinics, resulting in poor work environments for our healthcare professionals and poorer health outcomes for our citizens.
Provincial reforms have prioritized Team-Based Care (TBC) as a strategy to improve access, strengthen continuity, and support provider well-being. However, there is limited evidence on how organizational design and leadership, which are central to effective teamwork, influence its success in practice. This study will examine four family medicine clinics in Kamloops, BC, to explore what helps or hinders collaboration, communication, and sustainability in TBC models.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Cheryl Gladu

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Supporting Team Excellence with Patients (STEP) Society

Discipline :

Business

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

Thompson Rivers University

Programme :

Accelerate

Disentangling Neural and Local Muscle Mechanisms of Cross-Education During Lower-Limb Immobilization

When humans experience periods of disuse or immobilization in a brace or a cast or after significant injury, muscle strength and size decline dramatically and rapidly. Muscle size can decrease 0.5% per day and strength by 10% in the first week. These declines are often exaggerated in weight-bearing muscles of the lower-limbs such as the thigh. A novel approach to offset the declines in function during immobilization is by incorporating resistance training of the non-target muscles on the opposite side of the body, through an effect known as “cross-education”. However, the published evidence for cross-education to offset weakness has only examined upper-limb muscles (e.g. forearm). This project aims to be the first multi-site study to examine these preservation effects in the leg muscles, using a knee brace and crutching model of disuse in healthy participants. The project will provide insight into the physiological mechanisms that offset strength loss and atrophy during leg disuse. Since lower-limb immobilization studies are difficult to complete, the study will be conducted at two institutions with each site offering a unique contribution of expertise and research tools.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jonathan Farthing

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Northumbria University

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Life Sciences (not health); Health and Related Sciences and Technology

Université :

University of Saskatchewan

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

The role of oleanolic-derived saponins in plant resistance to insect pests and pathogens.

Estimates predict that globally well over 20% of crop yield is lost to pests and pathogens and this is forecast to increase with climate change. Thus, strategies to enhance plant resistance against disease and insect pests have been identified as one of the major challenges of this decade. Plants have chemical defenses involved in resistance to these biotic stresses. By optimizing levels of these compounds in plants or using these compounds as pesticides, we can enhance crop yield by protecting crops against pests or pathogens. Saponins are a large and diverse family of plant metabolites that contribute to plant defense against insect pests and pathogens. In this research, we are investigating the specific role of oleanolic-derived saponins in plant resistance caterpillar herbivory and to the causative agent of white mould (Sclerotinia sclerotiorum). Thus, this project will deepen our understanding of the role of oleanolic-derived saponins in plant defense to lead to strategies to enhance crop protection either by increasing endogenous resistance or by their use as biopesticides.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jacquie Bede

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Education

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Conservation ecology of the black land crab Gecarcinus ruricola in The Bahamas

PhD student, Che Nicholls (Memorial University) will travel to the Cape Eleuthera Institute, The Bahamas, to study land crabs. As part of his tenure at CEI he will guide a group of 15-17 year old students, who spend an entire semester at CEI learning about The Bahamas. Che’s research will focus on the black land crab (Gecarcinus ruricola). Despite its name, it appears in many colours, including grey, orange, brown, purple, and black. Che will document these colour differences and test ideas about why they exist, including whether colour helps camouflage crabs from predators. To do this, Che will develop new field techniques suited to working in The Bahamian environment. The students will also help collect data, giving them hands-on experience with real scientific research. This project broadens perspectives in several ways. For Che, it means working in a new country, learning new research methods, and developing his skills in teaching/supervision. For the CEI students, it enables involvement in an active research project, guided by a PhD scientist, connecting classroom concepts with real-world ecosystems. For Che’s supervisors, Drs. Iain McGaw and Eric Schneider, it expands their research portfolio from marine crustaceans into land-dwelling crabs and strengthens international links with CEI.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Iain McGaw

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

The Island School

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Life Sciences (not health); Agriculture and Food

Université :

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Design and Evaluation of Voice-First and Multimodal Interfaces for Clinical AI Systems

This project investigates the design and evaluation of voice-first and multimodal interaction patterns for clinical AI systems. Through human-centred design research and clinician usability testing, the project aims to develop validated interaction models that support safe, trustworthy, and workflow-aligned use of AI in healthcare settings.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Alan Goldman

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Aya Health Technologies Inc.

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Programme :

Business Strategy Internship

How does the orthographic transparency of their first-language impact second-language learning in university students with and without dyslexia?

In today’s multicultural world, learning new languages has become essential for students’ academic, personal, and professional development. Skilled reading requires the coordination of visual, phonological, and broader cognitive skills, which may create unique language specific challenges. This project examines first- (L1) and second-language (L2) reading profiles in university students with and without dyslexia, focusing on how differences in the orthographic transparency of the two languages shape reading performance. Although higher education institutions offer extensive L2 instruction, evidence-based guidance on how to support dyslexic students in foreign-language learning remains limited. As a result, L1 accommodations are often applied to L2, a practice that may unintentionally hinder learning when the two languages differ substantially, as in English and Italian. This pilot study—the start of a broader collaborative project—aims to identify the most informative measures, prepare experimental materials, and explore the role of psychological factors and L2 proficiency in shaping individual reading profiles. Ultimately, it seeks to clarify how L1 and L2 demands interact in readers with and without dyslexia, laying the foundations for more effective, language-sensitive support in multilingual education.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Michael Chan-Reynolds

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

University of Trento

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Education

Université :

Trent University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Explainable Predictive Maintenance for Aircraft Systems

This project focuses on helping engineers understand and trust the results produced by artificial intelligence systems used to monitor aircraft health. Modern aircraft generate large amounts of data, and AI models can detect unusual behavior or potential faults, but their outputs are often difficult for non-AI specialists to interpret. In this project, the interns will develop methods to (1) simulate realistic fault scenarios when real fault data are limited, (2) structure diagnostic reasoning using engineering fault logic, and (3) translate AI model outputs into clear, plain- English explanations that follow how aircraft systems work. The expected benefit to the partner organization is improved confidence in AI-based maintenance tools, better alignment between AI results and engineering judgment, and stronger decision support for ma

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Soumaya Yacout

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Bombardier Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Transportation and warehousing

Université :

Polytechnique Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Prediction of RNA splicing changes from genetic variations is high-risk cancers

Pancreatic cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death in North America. Because pancreatic cancer is hard to treat and is often diagnosed at a late stage, patient survival is often measured in months. Current treatments consisting in chemotherapy and surgery are not effective. However, new therapies referred to as “immunotherapies” that leverage the patient’s own immune system against the cancer offer hope. Therapeutic vaccines are a form of immunotherapy that showed promising results in a clinical trial for pancreatic cancer. Much like vaccines against viruses and bacteria can trigger an immune response that protect from infections, vaccines against cancer can trigger an immune response that will eliminate cancer cells. The key to the development of an effective vaccine against pancreatic cancer is the identification of antigens present in tumors. We propose to use a computational approach to engineer personalized pancreatic cancer vaccines. We will sequence the DNA (“genome”) and the RNA (“transcriptome”) from tumor samples to identify antigens that are present in cancer cells, but not in normal cells. With this approach, we can design vaccines that will be optimized for each individual patient.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Mathieu Quesnel-Vallières

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

Université de Sherbrooke

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Développement et intégration d’un module de communication embarqué et de contrôle pour un vélo électrique

Ce projet vise à améliorer les systèmes de communication et de contrôle utilisés dans les vélos électriques afin de les rendre plus fiables, sécuritaires et performants. Le stage permettra d’analyser le fonctionnement des communications embarquées existantes et de définir une architecture technique claire pour un futur module de communication. Les résultats contribueront au développement de solutions innovantes en mobilité électrique, favorisant une meilleure gestion des données, une maintenance facilitée et une utilisation plus efficace des vélos électriques dans un contexte de transport durable.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Tan Sy Nguyen

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Okidoo Interactif

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université du Québec à Rimouski

Programme :

Accelerate

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