Arch-App

The intention of the Arch-App is to create a mobile app that utilizes geo-location and augmented reality technologies to access data (including imagery, videos, and text) on building projects throughout the city in real time. The infrastructure of the Arch-App effectively provides users a resources (ranging from historic imagery to notable interviews) and tour guides […]

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Embodied Carbon Study of New Residential Buildings in Southern Ontario

The built environment accounts for over one-third of annual global carbon emissions, with approximately one-quarter resulting from ‘embodied carbon’ that is released during the raw material manufacturing, transportation, construction and end of life phases of built assets. Given the continued growth in new build construction and the critical need to limit climate change, further analysis […]

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Multi-sensor fusion for continuous vitals monitoring, sleep characterization and fall detection

The proposed research project focuses on multi-sensor such as heart rate, body temperature, oxygen saturation level, and inertial sensor data-based sleep stage classification, and tremor detection in real-time for preventive health devices. The goal of the proposed research is to build robust and energy-efficient machine learning and deep learning-based approaches that extract and analyze the […]

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Optimization of Soil Parameters for Deep Excavations by Inverse Analysis

The proposed research aims to optimize soil model parameters through inverse analysis of deep excavations. Soil properties and their engineering behavior are the fundamental uncertainties among the many influential factors involved in deep excavations. Even though geotechnical investigations are usually conducted, the risks are still high due to the limited amount of soil samples extracted […]

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Fabrication of Smart Clothing: From Machine Learning Approach to Fashion Design Concepts

Nowadays, wearable devices attract a lot of attention, especially in the healthcare field. But translating all devices to wearable devices always comes with challenges. Some of the challenges are lack of knowledge about the application of different materials in smart textiles, limitation of developed smart textiles in practical application, no significant dedication in designing clothing […]

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Automated technical knowledge curation using machine learning

With the growth of the Internet, the amount of scientific data and information available to research teams has been increasing exponentially in the past two decades, which results in significant information overload. Approaches for manual knowledge extraction and curation does not scale up in practice. The main objective of the project is to create an […]

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Video Production Project

This project will involve creation of video content enhancing the company’s brand and contributing to the company’s mission of disrupting how professionals work and how they get hired.

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Water Quality Modelling of the Humber River Watershed, a Mixed Urban-Rural Watershed

The Humber River watershed is a mixed urban, rural watershed within the Greater Toronto Area and a designated Canadian Heritage River. The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA), in partnership with relevant municipalities, is developing a watershed plan to determine existing conditions and identify measures to protect, enhance, and restore watershed conditions. Water quality is […]

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Energy Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis for selected industrial and commercial Enbridge Gas Distribution (EGD) Customers

The objective of this proposal is to do energy assessment and cost-benefits analyses among selected industrial and commercial Enbridge Gas Distribution (EGD) customers, engaging Ryerson faculty and students. EGD operates defamed side management (DSM) programs to encourage its industrial customers to adopt energy saving equipment and strategies to reduce the natural gas consumption. As a […]

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Textile-based immunosensors for sweat biomarkers: A case study for measuring cortisol

The portable user friendly devices can help us monitor our health status without any need to refer clinics. This capability is good to timely and efficacious medical interventions. This project aimed at realizing this device by making the key component involved in recognizing the biomarkers. We will synthesize the component at first using available inexpensive […]

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Assessment of IT Distribution Channels in Canada

The distribution of IT products in Canada is complex and constantly changing, with dramatic transformation coming from new digital technologies, changing customer expectations and the constant presence of global competitors. This research will assess the IT Distribution Channels in Canada to understand the changes, and to identify the key attributes for survival and prosperity going […]

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Democracy and Access to Justice

Justice is a core element of a healthy democracy. However, during the pandemic Canada has been confronted with critical questions about how individual notions of justice interact with collective democratic principles. Where is the line between democratic participation and harmful discourse? How does partisanship politicize our protected rights and rule of law? What tools does […]

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