Engagement and online communities: Promoting a culture of helping those in need.

Social media are important ways of interaction between people, creating communities that can engage in order to promote relationships. When used by companies for philanthropic purposes, they can promote actions and donations. The purpose of this research is to understand how engagement can be enhanced through social media communities to get people to help each […]

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Personal Analytics to Enhance Smarter Commerce

Personal analytics refers to a recent trend where individuals wish to collect, analyze and visualize personal information so that they can gain knowledge about one’s behaviours, habits and thoughts in the context of their personal goals. The trend of self-tracking is rapidly increasing as people are becoming smarter about choices available to them, and seek […]

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Constructing and Analyzing a Cross-Artifact Build Dependency Graph

Modern video games are composed of different types of artifacts, such as images, sounds, and software code. All these artifacts are developed at the same time by different teams. While the independent creation and modification of each artifact allows different teams to make changes without blocking each other from making progress, how artifacts are combined […]

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Front End and Back End implementation of new UI/UX and implementing “gamification / rewards” technology to increase usage

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools help protect and develop the relationships one builds with their clients, which typically uses data analysis to study large amounts of information. These tools compile data from a range of different communication channels which include company’s website, phone number, email, live chat, and social media. This allows learning more about […]

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Using AI to help first responders assess skin burns

The broad goal of this project is to create and implement a system which is able of assessing and classifying skin burns (and other types of skin lesions/wounds) using different state-of-the-art machine learning models and techniques such as EfficientNets, Reinforcement learning, saliency mappers, CAM, etc… The work that will be completed during this internship will […]

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An accelerated COVID-19 diagnosis tool using interpretable deep learning

This research aims to develop an efficient machine learning model to detect COVID-19 patients by using their cough signals. The model is trained using thousands of audio recordings of cough signals from different subjects. The audio signals can be converted into spectrogram images that can be visually inspected to determine relevant regions of interest. There […]

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Intelligent Inventory and Personnel Management

Kent Building Supplies (referred to as Kent from hereon) has 49 retail locations across Atlantic Canada. We have started developing Robotic Process Automation (RPA). RPA significantly reduce the human intervention and generate exception-based flagging reports. We would like to continue deployment of RPA for new tasks and use unsupervised and supervised machine learning to improve […]

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Composing without forgetting

In this project, we propose a modular continual learning approach to face the problem of catastrophic forgetting and transfer in learning from evolving task distributions. Concretely, we propose a model that learns how to select most relevant modules based on a local decision rule for a given task to form a deep learning model for […]

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Measuring Kingston’s Economic Resilience

This research project will create data dashboards that measure Kingston’s economic resiliency a year into the pandemic. The data will be collected from multiple organizations and sources to create a comprehensive look at the pandemic’s impact. The data dashboards will cover the areas of business and tourism, health and community, mobility and home and employment. […]

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Understanding Gene Model Maps

Researchers are often tasked with finding related works in their respective field, including journal entries and images that represent the work contributed, which allows researchers to summarize and expand previous contributions. Biological researchers often convey their contributions through visual illustrations, also considered gene model maps. These gene model maps are used to represent how contributions […]

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