In the emerging sector of fintech, a novel concept known as a home equity investment is gaining traction, offering homeowners a way to access their property’s value without selling it. This financial instrument involves an investor providing a cash infusion to homeowners in exchange for a 20% ownership stake in their home. Homeowners then have […]

The proposed project is to develop a method to cross-couple organic feedstock molecules using base metals and photocatalysts. The method will utilize photocatalysts to convert inert C-H bonds into highly reactive radicals that can be captured using a base metal catalyst. The hydrogen atom is an ideal coupling handle, considering its abundance in organic molecules […]

This project aims to study how species form in the Amazon using the Silvered Antbird as a model. This species has diverged into two morphologically divergent forms. Where these forms come into geographic contact, populations appear morphologically and genetically intermediate suggesting they form a hybrid zone. To investigate the extent of genetic mixing between these […]

The unique ability of surgical procedures with infrared lasers to prevent scarring can be applied to all kinds of tissues, not just the skin or outer layers, but also organs, other soft tissues, and bone reshaping for perfectly matching implants without tissue damage. However, the cutting speed due to the relatively low laser power is […]

Project 1 StrokeSENS™ is a software as a service business aimed at providing physicians with an acute stroke decision aid tool, that will leverage artificial intelligence (AI), advanced image-processing, and network connectivity to support physicians and other healthcare team members to simplify stroke care, with a focus on enabling front line stroke centers. Circle NVI’s […]

Our bodies respond to disease and pathogens by changing the expression levels of many different genes. These changes are currently only measurable using expensive instruments and analyzed using complex software, both of which are often unavailable at low-resource and remote settings. The goal of this project is to establish a novel technology for measuring these […]

When building predictive ratemaking models in Property & Casualty insurance, the quality of the models and the adequacy of the premiums we charge to clients are dependent on the quality of the data used when building those models. In certain cases, we know that some variables have the potential of being misrepresented in our data, […]

Production of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) contributes to 8% global CO2 emission. There is now increased effort to find alternative materials that are sustainable, readily available, and cheap. Several supplementary cementitious materials (SCM) from natural resources and waste product have been used to partially replace OPC and have shown beneficial effect. New efforts by Carbon […]

This project will determine if underground detention systems provide an equivalent level of service for stormwater treatment as stormwater management ponds. This will be achieved through water quality measurements collected from a StormTrap system and through the development of a pollutant-transfer model. The intern will work with both the Toronto Region Conservation Authority and Con […]

It is important that heart failure patients monitor their condition at home. We are exploring devices that can improve the self-monitoring required of patients and send this information back to their doctors. A technology that we are testing is ballistocardiography (BCG). BCG is a mechanical vibration generated by your heart and is recorded using a […]

In this research project, we plan to explore potential uses of generative AI models, such as ChatGPT, to enhance financial modeling. Trusting financial advice from Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) models is a challenge due to model “hallucinations”, necessitating careful verification and validation of the output. Therefore, we plan to take an alternative approach. We would […]