On this project, the use of tethered remotely piloted aircraft systems to protect stone fruit orchards will be explored. The intern sill design and evaluate the performance of such aircraft systems and conduct both ground and in-flight testing of the system. BAAZ UAV will benefit from this technology and the potential deployment to support Canadian […]

Understanding pedestrian dynamics is crucial to the design of pedestrian facilities. Although pedestrian flows are part of everyday life, many basic characteristics of pedestrian dynamics cannot yet be described in detail. The aim of the PhD project is to study the upper body rotation of pedestrians when crossing a narrow passage (bottleneck). Since the movement […]

Many restaurant brands use multiple third-party providers (marketing agencies, digital marketing specialists, loyalty program and CRM providers, app developers, and business intelligence vendors) across the data value chain. The resulting piecemeal environment makes it hard to get a true 360-degree view of the brand’s customers. omNovos is to deliver a reasonably priced enterprise-scale Digital Order […]

Connected Canadians is a non-profit organization that provides older adults with free technology support and training. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the demand for our services significantly, as our ways of connecting, interacting, and living have shifted online. Connected Canadians has been growing its mentor team significantly to help meet the rising needs of its […]

Collaborative robots, also known as Cobots, are devices that will help farmers in their farming duties to have better control over their crops, increase harvesting efficiency, and solve labor shortage issues in rural areas. These robots can operate near humans and complete a wide variety of tasks including harvesting crops, precise pesticide spraying and crop […]

Connected Canadians is a non-profit organization that provides older adults with free technology support and training. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the demand for their services significantly, as our ways of connecting, interacting, and living have shifted online. Connected Canadians has been growing its volunteer mentor team significantly to help meet the rising needs of […]

Food security is a major global concern and Canada’s current agricultural model is not adequately positioned to support our growing needs. Insects may solve this problem as they are nutritious and their production requires less resources than vertebrate protein sources. A primary goal of this project is to increase cricket yield. Together with Entomo Farms, […]

While most people gamble for fun, some people suffer harms from their gambling. To prevent people from experiencing gambling-related harm, the gambling industry has put in place responsible gambling programs and tools to help people gamble within their means. However, even with the different responsible gambling tools and information available to players, the use of […]

Climate Change (CC) mitigation and reduction requires a strong effort to develop and put into use clean energy options that significantly reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions. In Canada, the transportation sector accounts for 25% of all emissions. Hydrogen fueled vehicles is one option that has a great potential to reduce Canadian and global CO2 fuel emissions. […]

Screening spontaneous reporting (SR) or electronic health records (EHR) data sets for adverse drug reactions (ADRs) has become an important component of drug safety. Much methodological work has been historically done on SR data, however, novel approaches are continually being suggested which merit critical review. Thus, we will first investigate some of these approaches as […]

Removal of specialized coatings and paint from lightweight aircraft structures through laser ablation is very promising and environmentally safe decoating process compared to existing methods such as chemical stripping. However, research is needed to understand the effect of the laser process on the underlying materials. This project will include an in-depth experimental study of the […]

Finite State Machine (FSM) is an essential part of any Intrusion Detection System. FSM is typically used to detect binary sequences that can represent virus signatures and traffic rules. In this project, we are working on an Oblivious Intrusion Detection System (Oblivious-IDS) which can work in cloud setting under a non-trusted system administrator with honest-butcurious […]