Projets novateurs réalisés

Beehive strength modelling using multiclass supervised machine learning

A third of the food that we grow depends on honeybee pollination. Nectar’s mission is to help the beekeeping industry ensure honeybee health to secure our food supply. By leveraging sensor data with labelled data on numerous aspects of beehive conditions, this project aims to develop multiclass classification of key phenomena to improve beehive health and reduce labor. Labelled data on honey quantity, queen bee status and productivity, population, and pesticides will be modeled to develop a hive strength score based on each labelled data category.

An Investigation of Potential Market Entry for Novel Medical Devices in a Pandemic Environment

Currently, it is difficult to obtain market share in the medical device market. Furthermore, a lack of resources by small companies with disruptive technologies can prove to be detrimental to establishing market share. This huge hurdle thus discourages innovators from commercializing their life-saving technologies especially in a pandemic situation. This project will focus on the development of a framework to support vulnerable new entrants into the medical device market with penetrating and securing a position in the market, within a pandemic setting. Healthcare professional-led innovations will, therefore, have the chance to develop tailored market entry strategies to quantify risks and outcomes of various market entry options, defined by the framework. This framework will be utilized by Difinity Solutions in marketing their medical devices based on a novel medication delivery system and mechanism to improve patient outcomes. This will therefore provide evidence-informed decision on an overall market entry strategy for Difinity’s medical devices.

Collaborative Robot for Vertebral Fusion with a Quality of Fusion Estimation Model

Spinal fixation, the process by which a broken spine is mended, or a deformed spine corrected, can involve the placement of tens of pedicle screws during lengthy surgical operations. With an ageing population the overall demand for these procedures is increasing. Surgeon fatigue is an issue in these procedures and has demonstrated decreased performance. Our focus will be on the researching and developing an automatic surgical system for the purposes of spine screw insertion. By having a robotic system which performs the most work intensive tasks, the surgical workload can be shared thereby relieving surgeon fatigue and all complications associated with it. e

Business Development Intern

Company Background:
Popul8 aims to build immersive and intelligent technologies to map the industrial world. Our goal is to enable workers to solve complex problems by communicating visual information and facilitating remote and real-time collaboration. In order to safely restart businesses, Popul8 applications help address social distancing and travel restrictions by enabling remote team collaboration for planning, audits, procurement, training, and support. The organization has developed a tool to allow asset managers to visit their sites & assets virtually rather than in person. The intern will help to expand the sales effort of the venture and support other businesses affected by COVID.

Internship:
Popul8 is looking for a Business Development Intern to help lead the company in the next growth phase by increasing our reach through lead generation and qualification. As a Business Development intern, you’ll have an opportunity to increase our reach through identifying new markets and leads, managing the CRM funnel and analyzing data. We are looking for a creative, self-starting individual who will thrive in a fast-paced environment and wants to see the impact of their work.
– Execute on a business development strategy for Popul8
– Perform Funnel analysis
– Identify markets and potential opportunities

Estimation of Better Bid prices in the CustomerChoice-Based Network Revenue ManagementProblem

A “bid price” is a mathematical tool in the seat inventory control to make a decisionmaking
system to accept or reject arrivals in order to maximize expected total revenue
with a limited available capacity of resources. As part of this internship, intern will
develop new models and test their performance using actual data. This internship will
allow ExPretio to test new approaches and apply advanced technigues in seat
inventory control and other mentioned related fields, areas in which the intern has
specialized as part of his Ph.D.

Marketing Intern

The goal for this internship is to devise a marketing plan to re-educate the public on what Independent Living and Assisted Living are and how they are different than Long Term Care, and instill a feeling of safety from making the choice to move to our residence during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The marketing strategy will include writing and managing ads, developing outreach programs, writing and sourcing content for our website and ads speaking as experts in our field or related topics, as well as some sales and tracking. Additionally, scheduling educational content for our residents as well as our clients would be part of this role should the restrictions on visitors be lifted. A successful marketing campaign will result in the ultimate goal of reaching 100% occupancy.

Market Research Analyst

Arbutus Search Group is a recruitment and placement agency that due to the effects of COVID-19, is pivoting to offer a new service that will allow them to create a better more broad service offering that will include training and development services in the area of recruitment. The Marketing Research Analyst Intern will build a business plan for the Arbutus Recruitment Training program including a pricing strategy, marketing plan and go to market strategy. The focus will be on best in class recruitment training programs online and in person, best in class HR Training programs online and in person, and best in class blended learning training programs across all industries to ensure the most effective, accessible content and format is available.

Mitacs Business Strategy Internship

Today, decisions on which products continue in the product line even when it’s near its end of the lifecycle are arbitrary and often made intuitively based on gut feelings. This could incur serious and unnecessary financial loss, and also means the decision is made in a mostly qualitative fashion and doesn’t include as much quantitative rigor as is possible. This is when the ‘Style Retirement’ and ‘Inventory Management’ project comes into play. The significances of the projects are listed below:
• Improved agility – having a model to quickly iterate forecast supply/demand will allow the company to respond to market conditions/opportunities quickly, leading to increased sales and less waste/obsolescence;
• Understanding the magnitude of the cost of the current inventory obsolescence execution will help drive the impetus for change. Currently, we are deceiving ourselves in how we price products near liquidation and don’t gradually increase discounting to reflect the true relative value of a product. Consequently, the products then get liquidated at a huge discount which leads to lost revenue that could have been captured;

Market Research and Product Development Specialist

We are launching an innovative new business that will deliver premium, hospital-grade sanitization services to small and medium businesses impacted by COVID-19.

In Vancouver alone, 14,000 businesses have faced mandatory closures as a result of COVID-19. More than 80 percent of restaurants and hotels are closed, and getting these businesses back open and operating safely is critical to the livelihoods of thousands that are employed in these sectors.

As provinces across Canada start to implement re-opening plans, many businesses are facing stricter requirements for sanitization and physical distancing to avoid the spread of the disease and protect staff and customers. Customers are also seeking higher levels of assurance that business premises are clean and safe, and that businesses are adhering to strict sanitization protocols. To get hundreds of thousands of Canadians back to work, we need to give consumers the confidence that the places they visit are free from COVID-19 and other bacterial and viral hazards.

We are an established small business that has been operating in Vancouver for over 20 years. We understand the needs of small businesses and we are licensing a high-tech solution to deliver sanitization services. We will be procuring, testing and modifying hospital grade AI-powered Robots that use UVC light treatment to rid a space of bacteria and viruses (including COVID-19). This project will help us with project positioning, marketing and pricing as well as target market analysis.

Digital Product Sampling (Marketing)

Go Bee, Inc. (Go Bee) is an experiential marketing company that provides customized marketing campaigns in order to introduce brands to consumers, converting consumers into customers. Facing unprecedented times, Go Bee has decided to add a new division, Connector to leverage the firm’s strong capabilities in the digital product sampling space by providing a virtual experience for its clients to sample brands and products. Digital product sampling provides consumers with an organic product experience in the safety and comfort of their homes as well as an overall increase in the Return on Investment (ROI) for clients through the targeted use of analytics. The opportunity for Connector to grow and operate as its own division with the capacity to replicate and be exported to more geographic territories expands Go Bee’s reach and opportunity for revenue growth.

Web Tools for Intelligent Real-Time Data Analy-sis

Data analysis plays an important role in healthcare as it enables service providers to discover hidden
knowledge in the data, allowing them make more informed decisions about patients’ health. The continuing
increase in the amount of data and lack of skilled people, however, has made data analysis
very challenging. This project aims at developing web-based analytics and visualization tools to help
researchers uncover new knowledge within the data much faster through automated analysis. Our
initial efforts will focus on two disease registries for cancer and stoke patients, which Pulse InfoFrame
Inc. has developed and currently manages. The long-term goal of this project is to enable Pulse InfoFrame
Inc. develop and commercialize innovative health informatics tools, which will be of great
interest to various markets. Our hope is that, once the tools are developed and are proven successful,
they can be used to analyze data in other disease areas.

A Novel Bone Anabolic Treatment in Mouse Models of Pediatric Bone Fragility Disorders

Children that break their bones repeatedly often have genetic conditions that either affect bones directly or indirectly. The drugs that are currently used to decrease the number of fractures in children are only partially effective. Mesentech Inc. has developed a new drug that has shown a strong effect on bone formation in rats. In this project, we will test the effect of this drug in mouse models of a condition that affects bone directly (osteogenesis imperfecta) and a condition that affects bone indirectly (Duchenne Musclar Dystrophy). We will assess the effect of this drug, both alone and in combination with other drugs, in growing mice. We expect that the new drug will make the bones of growing mice stronger. This will open new treatment approaches for children with disorders leading to frequent bone fractures.