Skookum is a word used in many cultures. In British Columbia, some Indigenous communities understand “Skookum” to mean strong or brave. The Skookum Lab was created to honour the strength and wisdom of Indigenous communities and to make innovative changes within the city of Surrey. We are inviting First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people in […]

Therma management in electronic systems is a growing concern. Maintaining the battery temperature is one of the biggest challenges in electric vehicle development. The batteries in electric vehicle generate a lot of heat which, if not dissipated, may lead to an explosion. Not only electric vehicles, but with increase in processor speed and computing power […]

Fewer children are walking or bicycling to school than ever before. Programs promoting active transport to school may increase physical activity in children’s lives and allow opportunities for independent mobility. Programs may be funded by municipal and provincial governments, or other stakeholders, but on the whole typically lack evaluation. In this project we focus on […]

Mortality bias is the concept that because non-survivors have passed away, they may be the frailest or most vulnerable members of a population. Thus, they may not accurately represent the biology of the whole population to which they belonged. However, these deceased individuals are precisely the ones examined by physical anthropologists working in both archaeological […]

Intimate partner violence (IPV), also known as spousal assault and domestic violence, is the most common form of violence experienced by women worldwide. Fortunately, IPV risk assessment tools, training, and practices have improved immensely over the last 20 years. One of the areas that can still be improved is training those using violence risk assessments […]

Helmets are currently tested and certified based on appropriate standards using a pass/fail criteria. All helmets that are available in the market have passed this standard testing. Unfortunately, the pass/fail threshold is well above known head injury threshold. Other than by comparing the price, consumers do not have a quantitative way to determine whether one […]

A class of compounds the work will be done are tetrahydrofuran-incorporating polyketide macrolides. This class of compounds are natural products found in diverse marine and terrestrial environments, and it has been found to show potentially useful activity in a variety of biological assays. In order to explore and expand this family of macrolides, it is […]

Stroke is the leading causes of permanent disability in adults in the world. However, rehabilitation can be a long process requiring hard labor with high cost. This project proposes to develop a rapid and easy to record indicator of motor performance for individuals with neuro/motor conditions. The team intend to develop an electroencephalography (EEG) based […]

The overall objective for this project is to support the research of two master’s students who would help advance the methods for modelling energy-climate policies, a field in which EMRG in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at SFU is one of the leading research units in the country and in which Navius Research […]

Manchuria, or Northeast China, was a migrant society in which the majority of the population came from Shandong and Hebei during the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. However, Manchuria’s migration history in the period of Manchukuo, a puppet state controlled by Imperial Japan from 1932 to 1945, is a […]

Speech separation – isolating different speech sources from a given mixed input signal – is a fundamental task in speech processing. It is a fundamental step in many applications, such as automatic speech and speaker recognition. However, speech separation is also among the most challenging tasks in speech processing. Recent studies involving deep models to […]

There is some evidence that people’s beliefs about how someone is ‘supposed to sound’ may affect how they perceive someone’s speech –to the extent of them hearing an accent that isn’t there. This response time study investigates in what ways “expected” and “unexpected” combinations of speaker ethnicity and accent can affect how speech is processed […]