As a part of the Million Tree Challenge, the MITACS intern will work with ReForest London staff and partners to conduct research to determine how many trees are planted in the City of London this year. As a part of this work, they will conduct of review of the best data collection practices of other […]

This research aims at improving theoretical financial markets models in order to account for the presence of informed traders in a contemporary setting. Despite the fact that privileged information has always been present in various shape or form, theoretical models seemed to be able to account for such informational asymmetry and provide ways to measure […]

Shopify has a well-developed partnership with universities for a work-integrated Bachelor of Computer Science degree. It is in their best interest to see their student interns successfully transition to the work place. In the application part of this study, we will use a fuzzy cognitive map (that is, a special type of a graph) to […]

Open banking systems have slowly migrated throughout the world, they are already implemented in Australia and Great Britain. An open banking system allows financial institutions to communicate directly with one another without the need of a central payment processing or clearance platform. As Canada turns to open banking in the future, payment processing platforms’ product […]

Supervisors: Mélina Maillhot (Concordia University, Montreal) and Elena di Bernardino (CNAM, Paris). Postdoctoral Fellow: Fátima Palacios Rodríguez (INRIA Sophia Antipolis- Méditerranée, Montpellier) The main aim of the project is to provide adequate models for rainfalls time series by representing the time dependence related to flood events with Vine copulas. Copulas are easily understandable multivariate models […]

L’objectif de ce projet est de proposer des méthodes performantes pour la planification d’horaires de personnel pour le commerce de détail. En effet, dans ce secteur hautement concurrentiel où les marges bénéficiaires sont généralement faibles, la gestion efficace de la force de travail à disposition peut générer des bénéfices notables. Ce problème consiste à affecter […]

The development of Canada’s energy infrastructure requires significant investment at all levels. Energy companies considering such investments require a complete understanding of the projected value of the prospective asset, as well as the associated risks. Often, a significant portion of the value comes from the flexibility provided by the asset. This project will use option […]

Flood is the single most important natural hazard in Canada. Since 2015, private (overland) flood insurance coverage is gradually being offered to Canadian homeowners and demand for such protection is on the rise in Canada and elsewhere. For the product to be viable to the insurers and to the customers in the long term, flood […]

Selon le plus récent rapport du Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat (GIEC), les événements extrêmes tels que les précipitations abondantes sont susceptibles d’augmenter. Le projet proposé s’inscrit dans la quantification de cette augmentation et a pour but général d’introduire les effets du changement climatique aux courbes Intensité-Durée-Fréquence (IDF) des précipitations. Ces courbes sont […]

Homotopy Type Theory is a formal system that conjecturally can be used as a foundation for Mathematics. It has at least two advantages over other existing foundations of Mathematics. It has a flexible language in which the notion of space is as primitive as the notion of set, thus making it easier to work with […]

The project will undertake a review of the existing and ongoing research in the field of InsurTech. Here, “InsurTech” refers to the marriage of insurance and technology with a goal to transform the insurance industry by using modern technologies to generate efficiencies. It is proposed to develop new technology based solutions for more realistic insurance […]

Les pieces souples (ou flexibles) sont une categorie de pieces frequemment rencontrees dans I’industrie, comme les panneaux de revetement de carrosserie, les composantes a parois minces, etc. On estime qu’environ 37% des composantes dans une automobile sont des pieces sou pies. Le probleme de I’inspection dimensionnelie de ces pieces est que la geometrie a I’etat […]