Integrity and Analytics of Energy Market Data

ReWatt Power facilitates transactions of green energy derivatives/green attributes such as Alberta Carbon Offsets. The company uses a blockchain technology to manage all transactions on their platform. This way, all parties have access to the transaction history in a database they own, and the transactions are immutable. The first objective of this project is to […]

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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 […]

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Deep Language models for Visual analytics of diversity and inclusion

The project will build an Artificial Intelligence-powered Bias Detection tool to identify bias and discrimination faced by employees of a company. The tool will take in free-text content from employee surveys, internal reviews and social media, and produce a score indicating whether the author of the content is likely facing or exhibiting bias. Algorithms will […]

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Analyse adaptative de flux de trafic réseau pour la cybersécurité

Malgré les efforts consacrés à la détection des problèmes de sécurité dans les systèmes informatiques, de nombreux défauts s’échappent sur le terrain, provoquant de graves défaillances et d’énormes pertes financières. Pour identifier la nature des problèmes, les développeurs de logiciels s’appuient fortement sur l’analyse des journaux (logs), générés lors des exécutions du système. Les logs […]

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Diagnostics and Explainable Machine Learning Models

Despite the advances of Machine Learning, the models are still being considered black-boxes that are difficult to diagnose and explain. The model performance diagnostic measures are critical to the assessment of the model’s relevance, accuracy and robustness. Good models’ performance is the primary enabler of their successful deployment in real-life applications. However, even if the […]

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Shipping Container Code Classification and Prediction

BlueNode is a SaaS company focused on the sanitation and analysis of marine shipping data. The research project is focused on increasing the precision and accuracy of shipped goods processed through Canadian ports. Should the research prove to be successful, the technical methods used will be directly incorporated into the BlueNode system.

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A hybrid two-way recommender system for candidate and job search

The recruitment industry faces information overload when matching qualified individuals with competitive jobs. A recommender system can effectively solve this problem by filtering relevant content in order to make recommendations, in this case matching candidates with jobs. The objective of this project is to develop such a system for two-way search and ranking of candidates […]

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A Data-Driven Approach to Formulating Best Practices for Mobile Games

The goal of the research project is to improve overall user experience in mobile games by formulating a set of user experience best practices, or heuristics, that is specific to mobile games. While research has been done in the past on heuristic evaluation in games, there has been little specifically focused on mobile games. Design […]

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Applying machine learning techniques for demand forecasting in retail

An important component to every growing retail business is demand forecasting which can affect the strategic plans of a business. The impact extends across the business’ function including budgeting, financial planning, price optimization, sales and marketing plans, capacity planning, staff management, risk assessment and mitigation plans. In this project, we want to apply machine learning […]

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Data Visualization of GIS Data at Scale

Access to private or leased land is currently not a simple problem. Landowners would like to know who is on their land, when, and for what purpose. Getting permissions from landowners is often not a straightforward task which often leads to obtaining permission being bypassed. Some landowners do not want hunters, but do not mind […]

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Empowering Patients with Diabetes through Experience Design

This initiative is conducted with the Fraser Health Medicine Program, which provides a wide range of integrated healthcare services in acute care hospitals and out-patient services. This research will focus on various tools such as visual storytelling to engage staff to empower patients with diabetes to take control of their diabetes health by providing them […]

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