This application is focused on GovLab.ai which includes a talent accelerator for public service professionals, post-secondary students and recent graduates. GovLab.ai’s mission is to set a global example of how to transform the public sector through applied AI, and is designed to encourage the growth of machine learning and AI skill sets that are in […]

Burdensome government regulations, sometimes referred to as “red tape,” are often touted as barriers to job creation and economic growth. This research project involves a jurisdictional scan of red tape reduction initiatives throughout the world and identifies global best practices. The project will assess whether efforts to reduce red tape in Alberta and the Edmonton […]

The focus of this project is hydrothermal liquefaction of woody biomass waste. Woody biomass waste could include branches or woodchips from logging and wood processing. The waste material is ‘cooked’ with water at extreme temperature and pressure to produce waste oil. The low energy carrying woody biomass waste is converted into a higher energy carrying […]

We have initiated what we hope is a long-term collaboration between University of Alberta (Randy Goebel, Amii/Computing Science) and Edmonton Police Service (Brian Rector), to investigate and develop the application of AI methods to aid in the solution of long-term unsolved homicides (“cold cases”). The initial idea is focused on AI methods for information extraction […]

Retrofitting aging commercial buildings from the exterior using wall panels can increase their sustainability and energy efficiency. The partner, RoBIM Technologies Inc., is developing an end-to-end automated solution by using robotic technologies and introducing more energy efficiency materials into the panel design. The combination of robotic prefabrication and sustainability of engineered wood products (EWPs) are […]

Open pit slope engineering involves balancing economic requirements and risk, where an optimum pit slope design seeks to safely increase the slope angles to minimize the mining of waste, while maximizing ore recovery. In turn, this can reduce the carbon footprint of the operation, as less excavation is required. An optimum slope design must satisfy […]

The reclamation and management of tailings generated during bitumen extraction is important to oil sands industries. Using end pit lakes (EPL) is one of the methods for permanent reclamation of tailings. Lake Miwasin is an EPL that was recently established, and it uses a new treatment technology for tailings’ storage. A pilot-scale demonstration pit lake […]

Naphthenic acids (NAs) represent the primary source of acute toxicity in oil sands process affected water. Due to the seepage potential of NAs from oil sands tailings ponds into the surrounding surface water and groundwater, environmental monitoring of NAs in water samples from tailing ponds, surrounding groundwater and surface water, and groundwater wells became a […]

The business partner is interested in expanding its understanding of prepayment. Specifically the goal is to predict prepayment risk for mortgages as a function of mortgagors’ characteristics (including data from previous interactions with the bank), and the local economy. In recent years, with the improvement in efficient computing and data storage, the relying on a […]

Nunavut Legal Aid aims to increase the access to justice in Nunavut through the reinstallation of Inuit legal traditions and restorative justice as an alternative to colonial carceral systems. This project will follow a three-phased approach to develop appropriate communication channels for each of Nunavut’s 24 communities; develop a community engagement framework; and consult with […]

Diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and osteoarthritis have been widely impacted by the pathogenesis of inflammation. After traditional therapy, most of the time dying cells stimulate inflammatory effects which results the reduction of therapeutic effect and enhances the drug resistance. That is why treatment often requires frequent or continuous high-dosage administration of […]

Combination therapy has been one of the cornerstones for combating cancers. Even though the survival rate of cancer patients after receiving combination therapy is improved dramatically, there are still many unsolved issues to prevent us from claiming combination therapy is a cure for cancers. Those issues include it does not apply to all types of […]