This internship supports the creation of an open-access publication on sustainable fashion, intergenerational learning, and craft practices. It investigates how participatory speculative design through Fashion Fictions workshops enables community textile groups to collaboratively imagine alternative fashion futures, fostering collective imagination, social learning, and agency. The project is the first Mitacs Globalink partnership between Nottingham Trent […]

Ensuring the long-term stability and security of widely-used software is a critical operational challenge. A key part of this is “backporting,” the high-stakes process of deciding which updates to apply to stable product versions. Currently, developers often make these crucial risk-versus-value judgments without formal, data-driven guidance. This project will develop an intelligent decision-support framework to […]

Electric vehicle charging infrastructure has become a central component of transportation planning as adoption of electric vehicles accelerates worldwide. Modern research models how drivers choose a station using discrete choice models, especially multinomial logit, which capture realistic preferences such as distance, queues, and charging speed. These models are computationally expensive, making large-scale location planning challenging. […]

This project investigates the use of large language models (LLMs) as autonomous teammates to perform aircraft control, strategic reasoning, and team communication in complex aviation missions. We propose to design and evaluate an LLM-based “wingman” agent for a simulated collaborative aerial firefighting scenario, in which a human and AI fly their own aircraft to detect […]

Air pollution from road transportation is a serious environmental and public health concern, with significant economic impacts related to healthcare costs and air quality management. Ultrafine particles (UFPs), emitted by both exhaust and non-exhaust vehicle sources, pose severe health risks because their tiny size allows them to penetrate deep into the lungs. Their dispersion is […]

This proposal aims to address a growing challenge in Canada’s financial technology sector that is to analyze ultra-long-term, unstructured financial documents in private markets for explainable decision making. Canadian investors play a significant role in the global private capital market which is estimated by industries to exceed USD $20 trillion by 2030. Unlink public markets, […]

In steel structures, anchor bolts with steel base plates connect steel columns to concrete foundations. These anchors may experience different types of loading, including tension, shear, or combined shear and tension. There are two installation methods for anchors in reinforced concrete: cast-in-place anchors for new construction and post-installed anchors for existing structures. While research on […]

Food insecurity and social isolation are both recognized as challenges facing many older adults in Montreal. While several nonprofit organizations have created programs to alleviate this situation, it is often difficult to “measure” a program’s effectiveness. This postdoctoral position will assess a series of community-based programs that are part of The Full Circle: Healthy Living […]

A Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) is a satellite communication technology that enables two-way data transmission between a ground station and a satellite. It is used for data, voice, and video communications, particularly in remote or underserved areas lacking adequate terrestrial infrastructure, ensuring reliable and secure communication for both personal and commercial needs. Optimizing the […]

In the late sixteenth century, a distinctive Italian painting style emerged, characterized by the contrast of light and darkness, known as chiaroscuro. While this artistic development is often seen as a stylistic or optical advancement, My PhD dissertation argues that the light-dark interplay in Italian Counter-Reformation paintings, especially those showing a repentant figure, has deep […]

La revue de code est essentielle pour assurer la qualité logicielle, et une revue efficace nécessite de comprendre à la fois la modification individuelle et le contexte plus large dans lequel elle s’inscrit. Dans de nombreux projets, y compris ceux utilisant Gerrit, les développeurs regroupent les modifications liées en un « topic » qui représente […]

Circa 1480 the Abbess of the convent of Sant’ Ambrogio in Florence commissioned the artist Cosimo Rosselli, to paint the fresco Procession of the Holy Miracle in her convent church. In the painting the nuns of Sant’ Ambrogio gather on the threshold of the church before a crowd which includes portraits of well-connected Florentine men. […]