A workplace injury can harm livelihoods and the mental health of employees, yet despite decades of safety interventions, work injuries remain a critical issue in Canada. This raises a critical question: What motivates people to be safe at work? Safety motivation—an individual’s willingness to engage in safe behaviors—is a key predictor of safety performance, making […]

This project will design, prototype, and evaluate an explainable, human-in-the-loop Large Language Model (LLM) system to enhance patient engagement and personalization in healthcare while ensuring transparency, privacy, and equity. Building on recent findings that current LLM-based healthcare tools lack robust real-world evaluation and interpretability, the research will develop explainability modules, privacy-preserving techniques, and rigorous evaluation […]

This project aims to make mass timber buildings, a sustainable alternative to concrete and steel, even more reliable. While mass timber is great for the environment, we don’t fully understand how it handles moisture over time, which can affect its durability. Our project will tackle this by using advanced sensors to monitor a new mass […]

Patients can use secure messages to communicate with their healthcare providers through patient-facing patient portals. While patients like the use of secured messaging, it also increases the workload burden for providers, and as such, providers often do not offer it to patients. With recent years of technological innovation, electronic hospital records software has developed AI-generated […]

Project Overview: Recruitment Workflow Innovation at Staffworks About Staffworks Staffworks is a Toronto-based staffing firm with 25 years of experience helping businesses stay agile and competitive through strategic recruitment services. The Challenge Recruiters face increasing administrative workloads—posting jobs across multiple platforms, managing large applicant volumes, screening candidates, coordinating interviews, and updating databases. These repetitive tasks […]

The research project involves studying how incubator programs help artists become successful entrepreneurs in the music industry. Incubators are places where artists get training, support, and resources to build their careers. The interns will collect and analyze data to understand how these programs impact artists’ growth, creativity, and business skills. By examining these effects, the […]

The study of complex systems using networks has become a central theme across disciplines, from social sciences and economics to biology and information systems. Graph theory, which models entities as nodes and their pairwise relations as edges, has provided a powerful framework for analyzing such systems. Graph-based methods have enabled advances in tasks such as […]

This research project explores how agentic AI—autonomous AI agents with the ability to perceive, reason, and act—can be designed and deployed within recommendation systems to proactively identify and counteract shilling attacks. These attacks involve malicious users injecting fake reviews or ratings to manipulate recommendations. The project aims to develop an adaptive, multi-agent, Agentic AI-driven model […]

Ki-67 is a promising biomarker in breast cancer and the Ki-67 labeling index, or the percentage of Ki-67-positive cells, has great prognostic potential particularly in carcinomas of the breast. To overcome the challenges of manual calculation of ki67 proliferation index, in this project we will design and develop computational pathology and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms […]

There is ample evidence that increasing Canada’s innovation, productivity and competitive advantage depends on expanding its skilled digital workforce to both implement and adopt innovative technologies. Despite the pressing need to increase the digital skills and participation of underrepresented groups in Information and Communications Technology industry and programs to diversifying computer science, the numbers have […]

Electrification of transit vehicles is a part of Ontario’s long-term strategy to reduce transportation-related GHG emissions. However, transit agencies and utility/local distribution companies face significant technological and operational hurdles in integrating “off the shelf” electric bus technologies. This project aims to overcome the social and technical challenges associated with a lack of international standardization for […]

Maintenance Engineering (ME) at Bombardier Aerospace, Toronto is currently offering a 3-day-in-class Reliability and Maintenance Cost Training to airlines operating Bombardier products. The idea behind this training package is to increase the understanding of the breadth of data that needs to be collected to make logical inferences and analytical methods that can be applied to […]