The rise of Internet of Things (IoT) with millions of edge devices created per year drives the need for computing platforms that have lower power, better fault tolerance and greater computing flexibility. With more and more novel applications and algorithms being rapidly deployed, the traditional approach of using custom hardware to achieve a low power […]

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a life-threatening condition with a high mortality. Currently, there are no proven pharmacological therapies available for the management of ARDS patients. Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) have been shown to be interesting candidates for treating ARDS. But their therapeutic effects as demonstrated in animal models and clinical trials have been […]

Artificial Neural Networks are powerful tools used in the field of artificial intelligence. Inspired by the human brain, they have shown very good results in certain tasks, such as image classification and even in the generation of new images. The problem with neural networks is that we do not understand why they are working so […]

This research focuses on a product of growing popular interest: “wild foods” like morel mushrooms, wild blueberries and fiddleheads. Why do the people who produce, trade and consume these foods value them? How can this value, whether economic, social or ecological, be increased? Because the attraction of these foods comes from their being “wild,” and […]

The main objective of this project is to provide a testing and optimization platform that will accelerate the availability of smart systems for seniors’ home healthcare. The interns from this program will start developing a novel versatile connection protocol that will connect different devices and sensors to the hub provided by our industrial partner SMARTONE. […]

The Centre for the Commercialization of Antibodies and Biologics (CCAB) is working with Empirica Therapeutics (Empirica), a Canadian start-up company focused on developing data-driven treatments for cancer, to address the unmet medical needs of glioblastoma (GBM), the most common adult malignant primary brain tumor. Current therapies are only partly effective, with frequent relapse and poor […]

Machine learning for healthcare promises to improve our diagnostic ability, to plot optimal treatment plans, and to smooth clinical operations and lower costs. But, central to these promises is a strong, generalizable numerical representation of a patient’s prior medical history that is reflective of clinical similarity and amenable to modeling. Learning such a representation is […]

Advances in cloud computing have enabled the Computer-aided design industry to develop fully-synchronous, collaborative CAD. Synchronous CAD is unique in that it allows multiple users to manipulate the same CAD model at the same time, and saves changes in real time—much like a “Google Docs” document. These new design environments engender real-time collaboration and are touted to be the […]

Automakers are investigating the autonomous vehicle as a replacement for traditional driving, not only to free up drivers from the task of driving, but in conjunction with a transition from owned to shared cars. In this scenario, people need no longer own cars or hire taxi/uber/lyft, but rather will be able to hire an autonomous […]

The overall objective of our project is to develop a better understanding of the positive effects of prism adaptation in patients with spatial neglect. Remarkable, long-lasting changes have already been found using paper tests; we aim to take this one step further and test for changes in activities that are important in every-day life. We […]

Developing energy efficient materials for new age technology is an area of extreme interest in academics as well industries. Hybrid perovskites are have proved to be rapidly growing to be promising materials in the field of solar cells with efficiencies reaching 23%. The versatile nature, simple synthesis route, tunability, dimensionality effects and other interesting features […]

Infectious salmon anemia virus (ISAV) causes severe anemia in salmon and has mortality rates that approach 100%. Over the last 30 years, ISAV has caused major disease outbreaks in farmed salmon in Canada, the US, and Chile. In 2012, a confirmed outbreak in Newfoundland prompted the destruction of 450,000 farmed salmon. The virus has caused […]