Artificial Empathy in Fundraising

Many nonprofit organizations struggle to create compelling stories that inspire people to donate. This project aims to develop an AI-powered assistant that helps nonprofits improve their fundraising campaigns by using more empathetic and emotionally engaging language. Since people are more likely to donate when they feel a personal connection to a cause, this tool will […]

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Improving the efficiency of identifying practice ready evidence and generating evidence summaries

EBSCO improves the dissemination of high-quality, clinically relevant content to healthcare providers through DynaMed, their online clinical textbook that is constantly being updated as new research is published. This process includes many experts and has many steps. McMaster University’s Health Information Research Unit’s (HiRU) literature surveillance program filters medical research studies and passes them to […]

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Developing Scalable QA Processes and Project Management Skills

Levis Tech is a custom software company based in Saskatoon that builds web applications for food banks, nonprofits, and eCommerce businesses. This project will bring on a Quality Assurance (QA) Tester to help improve how the company tests its software. Right now, testing is done manually by one of the partners, which slows things down. […]

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Furthering the development of AI based Historical Homicide files analysis with the help of Large Language Models

In this project, we are working on a large repository of historical homicide case files, which is majorly unstructured text. We are building a framework for knowledge graph extraction with the help of existing information extraction models further augmented and made robust with the help of existing state-of-the-art publicly available LLMs’ zero/few shot capabilities. We […]

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AI-Driven Ingredient Recognition & Measurement for Meal Planning

MealLens Inc. is developing an AI-driven meal-planning solution designed to help users efficiently manage food ingredients and optimize meal preparation. This project focuses on enhancing the system’s ability to recognize and process ingredient information while improving overall accuracy, user experience, and scalability. The expected outcome is a more intelligent and adaptable platform that will contribute […]

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Further enhancements of machine learning strategies for hematology analytics with near-field microscopy

Alentic Microscience Inc has developed a highly portable device that performs complete blood counts and other in vitro diagnostic tests based on the lensless microscopic imaging of blood and reagents. The system uses proprietary sampling techniques and unique analysis software based on advanced machine learning techniques. The software has been designed as a multistep process […]

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Pragmatic Automated Code Transformation Leveraging Large Language Models

With recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) designed for coding, Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering (AI4SE) remains pivotal in enhancing both developer productivity and software quality. However, to excel at more specialized SE tasks like code transformation, companies still need to optimize LLMs to their specific context to avoid LLMs’ tendency to “hallucinate”, i.e., […]

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Incorporating the behavior of caregivers using discrete choice models for assigning visits and/or work schedules to caregivers in home healthcare services planning

The partner organization, AlayaCare being a provider of cloud-based home healthcare software services, will allow us to have access to real-world data as well as field realities for home health care services planning. The responses from the patients as well as the caregivers used to build the behavioral models (discrete choice models) will be obtained […]

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Optimisation des flux de production et d’autoconsommation d’énergie par intelligence artificielle au sein de communautés d’énergies intelligentes

Le projet s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une thèse qui vise à étudier la faisabilité de l’autoproduction et de l’autoconsommation électrique d’une communauté (un “social solar club”) et évitant au maximum les pics de consommation qui dépassent la capacité de production de la communauté. En France, un système mis en place par le distributeur national (EDF) […]

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Prototype de « chatbot » pour aider les jeunes face à l’anxiété occasionnelle

Les problèmes de santé mentale (anxiété, dépression, etc.) touchent aujourd’hui plus de 650 millions de personnes à travers le monde. Les premiers symptômes apparaissent habituellement entre 14 et 24 ans. Bien que les solutions humaines et technologiques existent, il est difficile de trouver la bonne solution au bon moment. Le projet est de proposer un […]

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