Approximately 300,000 Canadians live with the effects of stroke. These effects include problems with mobility, cognition, speech and mood. Returning to personally valued activities following stroke can be quite difficult. In fact, the majority of stroke survivors, across all disability levels, report problems occupying their time in meaningful ways. This is particularly troubling as, while […]

Schubert calculus is a well-established area of modern geometry that studies configurations and intersections of linear subspaces. Since its invention more than a century ago, it became one of the fundamental tools in different areas of mathematics, physics and computer science that deal with solving various types of linear equations. A typical question which is […]

A risk-based approach to anonymization includes an assessment of the risk that an attack to reveal or uncover personal information will be realized, known as threat modelling, against the risk that an attack on the data will be successful (e.g., a re-identification). We wish to incorporate the provable guarantees of differential privacy into this assessment […]

Highly accurate 3D object detectors require significant computational resources, and reducing computation and memory load while maintaining the same level of performance is a critical task for any safe and reliable autonomous vehicle. This research project investigates the deployment of an accurate 3D object detection model to a resource constrained architecture by changing the model […]

Bisphenol A (BPA), and its analog bisphenol S (BPS) are synthetic compounds commonly found in plastic products, and chronic exposure has been associated with adverse health outcomes such as the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Low levels of these pollutants can transfer from polymers to food or water and can accumulate […]

The project “Challenges and opportunities for conducting physical activity research in the Latin American context” consists of a capacity building experience, in which an international PhD candidate in Epidemiology, member of the Healthy Active Living and Obesity research group, will spend 4 months in a research internship that will allow her to be involved in […]

The majority of refugee children have limited opportunities to develop first language (L1) literacy skills due to interrupted formal education. Upon resettlement to a country with a different language, refugee children must learn the language of instruction (L2) and develop L2 literacy to fill academic knowledge gaps. With limited L1 literacy and L2 oral competence […]

This project will develop a hybrid framework by integrating AI and machine learning methods with tabular information extraction and semantic modeling to improve the state-of-the-art precision and recall in tabular detection while maximizing the value of extracted information for industrial applications. Following a properly designed pre-processing stage to improve the outcomes of AI techniques, the […]

Polymer translocation is the process by which a long polymer molecule is forced to move through a nanoscopic hole in a wall in order to move from one side of the wall to the other. Many lower-resolution devices can be built using the general idea of forced polymer or macromolecule translocation, e.g. in the fields […]

Poor cognitive and academic outcomes are common consequences for children growing up in economically poor families. Poverty is associated with alterations in brain development, communication and cognitive skills. Children living in poverty are exposed to poverty-related risk factors and stressors, including less language exposure. Little is known about the early development of language and cognitive […]

Shopify has a well-developed partnership with universities for a work-integrated Bachelor of Computer Science degree. It is in their best interest to see their student interns successfully transition to the work place. In the application part of this study, we will use a fuzzy cognitive map (that is, a special type of a graph) to […]

The development of microelectronics based essentially on miniaturization in the previous century has given rise to other sectors in this area including the ability to design, develop new materials especially in the form of thin layers that may have new properties that will lead to the design and manufacture of devices for a wide variety […]