The aim of this 2-year project is to do research to inform the development of, and fully test and develop a mobile application designed to improve the experience of (particularly at-risk) post-secondary (PSE) students in addressing COVID-19-related issues. Our key concern is that COVID-19 has not only disrupted important and significant developmental experiences that improve […]

For decades the electric grid has remained a passive system that has delivered electricity to many households and businesses. As utility companies look at converting a passive electric grid to a smart grid, a number of sensors and smart meters must be deployed throughout the grid system to achieve this objective. Deploying vast amounts of […]

Le nombre d’espèces qui nous entourent est si important qu’il peut être ardu, même pour les spécialistes, de toutes les identifier. Cela est particulièrement vrai pour les insectes. De plus, avec l’avènement des technologies mobiles de l’information, la quantité et la qualité des images disponibles n’a jamais été aussi importante. Grâce aux appareils photos numérique […]

We build up chatbots for commercial companies to serve their needs, such as customer services. Within the whole chatbot building platform, there is one core component which is the short text similarity calculation component. We would like to improve our calculation capability for matching similar questions, as well as recommend related questions for the customers […]

Data collection over time is a common practice in many large organizations- including financial institutions and health care providers- often with the goal of using this data to predict future challenges and opportunities. While this data may contain valuable information, it is often unstructured, coming from different sources and recorded at different times. This lack […]

Le projet DREAMLAND; Mobile a pour objectif d’améliorer considérablement la qualité des soins hospitaliers promulgués aux grands brûlés lors des séances d’hydrothérapie et transformer une expérience hospitalière à priori négative, voir traumatisante, en une expérience ludique et positive, tant pour l’enfant que pour la famille qui l’accompagne. Dans le cadre des MITACS, les stagiaires travaillerons […]

Fundamental limitations of the current Internet architecture hinder the growth rate of the Intemet. The LocatorllD Separation protocol enables the Intemet to grow beyond the current limils and to gain the very much sought after scalability. This project offers the opportunity for BCNET and the educational and research institutes supported by BCNET to connect to […]

Our research consists of developing novel techniques to further improve the rendering time and quality of volumetric light transport, in special the effect of multiple scattering on path tracing. Our proposal is to explore the human perceptual system to speed up the computation using a visual perception metric. To determine which parameters are feasible of […]

Officepools.com is a flagship product of GSL Group, acquired in 1999. The site is an online fantasy sports platform offering various sporting and entertainment events to choose from, such as football and golf, but primarily specializing in the National Hockey League (NHL). Officepools.com has a userbase of around six hundred and fifty thousand people, with […]

In today’s quantum computing environment, access to all major hardware providers is entirely cloud-based. As a result, large enterprises and other privacy-sensitive users are limited in their ability to experiment with quantum computers. Many have simply chosen to forego experimentation with quantum computers altogether. A careful application of recent research is vital to address this […]

In online shopping, search results often have inherent ambiguity. Two customers using the same term as search query might have completely different expectations of the displayed results. For example, when the users type in the query “headphone”, some of them might expect over-ear headphone with passive noise isolation, while others might expect in-ear headphone with […]

This project will extend on our labs initial findings that current q-RT-PCR based screening strategies for COVID-19 patients can fall within variant regions of the SARS-CoV2 viral sequence and may potentially lead to false negative results. This project, in collaboration with BioXplor will lead to the development of online bioinformatics tool that will allow tracking […]