Projets novateurs réalisés

Enhancing Compliance of Financial Service Industry Through Understanding and Predicting Employees’ Conduct Risk

Conduct risk management is a topic of great importance to financial service firms. Misconduct from staff members in financial institutions can result in substantial costs. However, compared to other types of risk faced by financial institutions (e.g. credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk), conduct risk and the related reputational risk have been understudied. One of the main reasons for the limited research in this area is the lack of data available assessing employees’ misconduct. The proposed project aims to address this research gap by ultimately researching and building a conduct risk model relating to staff in the financial service sector. First, the current project will develop an framework of conduct risk of financial service these employees. The conduct risk model will identify subcategories of conduct risk, and will also identify individual-level antecedents of the different subcategories of conduct risk. In the second phase of the current project, the model will be tested by using the data collected through the partner organization’s dataplatform that contains the regulatory system registration information of financial institutions’ employees (e.g. financial advisors, investment managers). In the final phase of this project, the intern and the data scientist of the partner organization will work on building

Exploration and Development of an Active Assisted Living Data Sharing Infrastructure Aimed at Supporting the Development of Standards, Guidelines, and Certification Programs – Blockchain for Consent Management

The Ubiquitous Health Technology Lab (UbiLab) will explore the development of a data integration framework and recommendation for associated standards that aims at combining data from (1) smart home systems, (2) AAL or IoT for health technology, (3) mHealth, and (4) wearables. Important areas of data management will be explored, as for example security and encryption (blockchain) for consent management and data management. This initiative will provide the CSA Group with a roadmap of potential future standards to be developed in Canada and around the world to support the evolution of IoT for health, AAL technology, and Blockchain solutions.

Perceptions of autism, culture, and personhood from parents of children with autism and from colleagues delivering services to children with autism

Values, attitudes, and beliefs regarding disabilities vary across cultures and within cultures and these factors have an impact on the perspectives of the child’s parents and prioritizing their needs. Although Korea was greatly influenced by Western countries in special education, it has a relatively short history compared with other developed countries. Research found that autism is highly stigmatized in Korea and due to negative attitudes toward people with disabilities, many families and students with disabilities prefer not to be identified as having a disability and sadly they believe that to get educational benefits, they should be educated in special schools with students with similar disabilities. This study will investigate and gather qualitative data on the perceptions of autism, culture, and personhood from parents of children with autism and from special education teachers delivering services to children with autism. Specifically this research looks at the pressing need for continuing to expand autism research and how this research specifically intersects Korean and Korean-Canadian families.

Stations as Living Labs: Converting an environment into an ecosystem

The aim of this research project is to focus on several key train stations and to evaluate the regional environment the station is situated in order to identify and characterize the various stakeholders involved and assess the potential for the creation/activation/participation of new partnerships along the primary axes of sustainable mobility, customer and community experience. This work will be used to develop a strategy to reorganize the relevant entities into innovation ecosystems and to support the conversion of stations from static hubs to dynamic living labs. The ultimate goal is to attempt to transform uncoordinated entities into a deliberate, coordinated innovation network.

Development of Smart Utility Management System

In recent years, the problem of global warming has brought home energy consumption to the forefront

worldwide. Grid stabilization is a matter of national security as well as household efficiency. Therefore

the goal of this MITACS project is to continue the development a Smart Utility Management System

(SUMS) to manage power consumption, reduce peak usage and decrease consumer costs. SUMS will

be designed to serve as an intelligent agent for consumers who will grant limited autonomy to it for

adjusting operation times of appliances. To do that, the SUMS will obtain the price index from various

utilities in addition to regional environment forecasts to manage devices operation and optimize cost

and consumption of the electricity usage, based on the users’ preferences, the level of the autonomy

granted to SUMS, and predictions from historical data.

This project is a continuation of an NSERC Engage-funded for feasibility study conducted by

Surrounds Technologies Inc. and SFU. So far, the research team has completed…………………………….

Chipless RF Sensing for E-smart Composite Pipeline Integrity

Recent pipeline projects in Canada and the US have attracted lots of attention due to their importance for our future economy and environment. In the proposed project University of Alberta and Shawcor propose to work together towards developing E-smart pipelines and creating defect free system. We will utilize the vast amount of emerging and cutting-edge technical know-how in wireless technologies and apply that for the benefit of our energy and environmental sectors. Such information provides the opportunity to intelligently develop defect free pipeline. The project will create synergy between three of Canada’s strategic sectors of Environment, Information & Communication Technologies, and Energy. In addition, it will provide the opportunity for capacity building to highly qualified personnel to the advance the state-of-the-art high-tech systems, making them ready to join the industry, protect the environment and optimize usage of Canada’s natural resources.

Novel Treatments for bladder inflammation and pain

Interstitial cystitis is an inflammatory disease of the urinary bladder and is recognized as a serious medical condition associated with a profoundly negative impact on patients’ quality of life. Currently, there are no widely acknowledged causes of this disorder and no effective treatments available. Panag is a Halifax based drug company which focuses on development of novel therapeutic treatments which can be used to alleviate both pain and inflammation associated with IC. The goal of our research is to provide IC patients with symptom and pain relief, as well as to improve outcome. Previous research showed that the immune system is regulated by another system within our body, called the endocannabinoid system. Our approach uses special drugs, called cannabinoids, which are designed to target this system and as a result, provide symptom and pain relief and improve patients’ quality of life. Our project uses an established animal and tissue models to evaluate the effectiveness and toxicity of our treatment before human trials. The intern will learn valuable research industry-standard skills while Panag will gain insight into the therapeutic potential of their treatments

Multi-sensor data fusion and quality evaluation in challenging weather environment

A key factor to deliver reliable intelligent vehicles is the proper exploitation of data gathered from the different sensors equipping the vehicle. To do so, a data fusion algorithm is applied. However, the reliability of the sensors can change (for example due to weather conditions), therefore, a solution to evaluate the quality of the data gathered from each sensor must be investigated, to automatically adapt the data fusion algorithm and avoid the use of less reliable sensors or credible data or information these sensors provide directly or they derive through processing techniques. Sensors are becoming more and more complex and are no longer specific to only one type of measure or characteristic/feature. They can be used to measure directly or indirectly (through processing) different characteristics/features (such as velocity, position, size, etc.) of the observed environment. Each sensor category is better adapted to capture a specific characteristic/feature but in a meantime, the data they provide can also be exploited to identify (in a less reliable/credible way) other features. T

L’invocation de la neutralité axiologique dans le déploiement des mesures non-conventionnelles de la BCE

La crise de 2007-2008 a confronté la zone euro à des difficultés pour lesquelles l’Union économique et monétaire n’avait pas été pensée. En déployant dans l’urgence des instruments monétaires nouveaux, la Banque Centrale européenne a agi au-delà des missions qui lui avaient été confiées par les Traités. Dix ans plus tard, cette politique monétaire « exceptionnelle » continue d’être exercée en l’absence d’un contrôle démocratique plus strict. La BCE avait initialement annoncé que les effets politiques, distributifs, environnementaux, etc. de ces mesures non-conventionnelles demeureraient limités. En effet, cette institution revendique une neutralité des fins visées et, dans une certaine mesure, une neutralité des effets de sa politique monétaire, ce qui pouvait justifier, avant-crise, de la soustraire à un devoir de justification. Je propose d’interroger cette perspective, d’examiner les discussions portant sur la neutralité des effets de la politique monétaire d’après-crise et d’y confronter les justifications invoquées par la BCE. Enfin, j’examinerai la légitimité de cette politique monétaire à l’aune d’un modèle de théorie politique du contrat, qui, dans une version contemporaine, postule notamment que la puissance publique doit soumettre ses actions à un système de principes échappant à des objections raisonnables.

Recherche et développement d’un nouveau système de monorail à traction hélicoïdale HubTrack® commercialisable

L’entreprise Mobilités Mondiales inc. a fait breveter un concept de système de transport fonctionnant avec la traction hélicoïdale et des rails tubulaires ouverts. Après maintes preuves de concept expérimentales, l’entreprise a mobilisé une équipe d’experts en conception et fabrication mécanique et en automatisation qui sauront parfaire les travaux de R&D amorcés au respect des normes industrielles applicables de systèmes de levage, notamment. La méthode scientifique mise à contribution va permettre d’identifier les points faibles des plus récents prototypes et de proposer un design qui puisse les résoudre. Au gré de cette étape, nous allons effectuer un relever des normes industrielles applicables (ponts-roulants et monorails) et assurer que le nouveau design soit conforme aux standards attendus. Au terme du projet, nous allons avoir fabriqué une première preuve de concept opérationnelle de véhicule HubTrack®, et ensuite, au moins 4 unités interdépendantes de véhicules autonomes et automatisés afin de permettre d’amorcer avec succès la commercialisation du concept unique de mobilité durable du HubTrack®.

Attraction et rétention de la main-d’oeuvre manufacturière : repenser les pratiques et mesures de gestion pour favoriser l’engagement organisationnel

Bien qu’un nombre grandissant d’acteurs socio-économiques tentent de sensibiliser les employeurs à l’importance d’offrir des ressources favorisant la conciliation travail-vie personnelle (CTVP), l’état actuel des connaissances sur les mécanismes psychologiques expliquant leur effet sur la CTVP et, plus globalement, sur le bien-être des employés se montre fort limité. Par conséquent, la présente recherche vise à apporter un éclairage sur certaines pratiques de ressources humaines favorables à la santé en milieu de travail pour assurer la compétitivité des PME manufacturières en ce qui a trait à la capacité d’attraction et de rétention de la main-d’oeuvre qualifiée et innovatrice. La présente étude permettra de mettre en lumière les mécanismes menant à la réussite de la CTVP et les ressources motivationnelles permettant un plus haut engagement des employés.

Le musée face aux enjeux d’une expographie et médiation culturelle numérique participative. Élaboration et expérimentation d’un prototype d’Application de réalité virtuelle autour d’un corpus d’œuvres d’art du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal et de sa plateforme ÉducArt.ca.

Soyez au cœur de l’expérience muséale! L’Application ÉducArt en VR invite l’usager à découvrir de manière innovante toute une série d’objets et d’œuvres d’art de collection issus du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, et à participer, en collaboration avec le musée, à la construction de cette exposition virtuelle. Cette “réappropriation patrimoniale” et gamification de la visite place finalement le public au cœur de l’expérience muséale l’appelant à réfléchir autour de la co-création et valorisation du savoir à partir d’une collection et de sa mise en exposition numérique. Le dispositif permettra en même temps aux élèves et aux classes secondaires québécoises participantes à ce projet-pilote, d’expérimenter ce dispositif lors de son développement et d’apprendre, de manière interactive, toute une série de contenus relatifs aux œuvres et aux thématiques présentées dans ce nouvel espace immersif muséal.