Biomanufacturing is essential to growing Canada’s economy – as it provides a means to produce valuable and essential drugs, therapeutics, vaccines, and chemicals such that they are affordable and available for the Canadians who need them. In these facilities, biomanufacturing using yeast cells are becoming an attractive method for producing the valuable products because they […]

The project aims to study the function fields analogue of modular forms, known as Drinfeld modular forms, which are also significant objects in number theory. The objective of the project is to develop families of these forms, allowing for variation in their weights, which can lead to numerous interesting applications. To achieve this goal, the […]

The goal of this project is to improve Business Intelligence solutions to stay competitive in the market. We aim to take the learning efforts off the user’s shoulder using advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. We will develop AI technologies to help users answer questions that can be expressed in natural language and use existing data […]

Universities can be leaders in sustainability by building food sovereign campuses and communities. Instead, universities across Canada are contributing to unsustainable and unjust food practices by hiring multinational corporations (Aramark, Sodexo, Chartwells-Compass) that externalize social and environmental costs. The intern will continue the research from their Ph.D. dissertation about building food sovereign campuses and work […]

The current push towards electrification in Canada as a decarbonization strategy could lead to unintended consequences for utility providers, especially when managing peak demand to ensure grid stability. To address this issue, utilities require urban-scale energy models to forecast demand patterns and analyze the impact of new technologies, such as Electric Vehicles (EV). To this […]

This project provides key elements that would help create a transactive energy platform. The platform is expected to be used for analyzing different market and business models which facilitate increased participation of the end- users, improved efficiency in the grid and optimal usage and distribution of the energy present in the urban neighborhoods. The internship […]

The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a key component in the Mobile Next Generation Network, which is used by telecommunications operators throughout the world to provide access to multimedia and broadband services. As these services become more sophisticated, and as the number of clients rises drastically, it is increasingly expensive to install and operate a […]

This project analyzes the energy consumption of multi-residential buildings to determine the causes of discrepancies in energy bills of buildings with similar typologies and ages. For this purpose, different indicators such as technical and physical factors (HVAC systems efficiency, building envelope U-Values, and window-to-wall ratio), human-influenced factors (occupant behavior), and social factors (occupant’s energy-saving efforts, […]

Air-conditioning (AC) accounts for 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions. One way to improve the energy efficiency of AC equipment is to dry the air prior to its cooling. For this, sponge-like materials are used that can soak up the small water droplets that are in the wet air. A new class of nanomaterials called […]

A significant part of urban areas are used by parking spaces that facilitate single car use while contributing to heat island effects and rainwater management challenges. Traditional parking management strategies have not been able to address the environmental and quality of living aspects in cites. The main purpose of this project is to provide a […]

The power industry has aging infrastructure operating at high temperatures (up to 600°C) subjecting it to accelerated corrosion that regularly leads to disasters. Periodic inspections are used to assess structures using ultrasound but require operations to be shut down so that workers can operate safely. Continuous monitoring is complex at high temperatures, which has many […]

Families need help with their weekly food needs due to busy schedules, stressful weekly meal planning and rising food costs. This research project aims at combining recipes, nutrition, family profiles and preferences, and grocery shopping to recommend healthy and varied meal plans to families. These meal plans will be the base to build grocery shopping […]