Many conversational agents blend the functionalities of question-answering and chit-chat into a single system. This lays the foundation for a more interactive type of question-answering models which is the primary focus of the research project. Interaction between a user and the agent allows the user to ask an underdefined or ambiguous question, and, instead of […]

Modern visual effect films rely on photorealistic, believable, synthesized humans and characters. Often these characters are used as stand-ins for the hero character in a film and are referred to as digital doubles. In the past, digital doubles have been limited in use due to cost or complexity. As the demand for the use of […]

In distributed computing settings, data privacy is of paramount importance (e.g., mobile or medical devices). Federated Learning (FL) empowered the state-of-the-art deep neural network model to provide AI solutions to clients while keeping the client data private in distributed computing settings. Communication between different devices is one of the main bottlenecks of FL model because […]

The project will focus on developing expansion strategies as Doggy Bathroom enters the European market and hosts pop up shops throughout North America. The project will focus on creating business development strategies to aid with the rollout of these projects. The main goal of the company is to continue growing the brand awareness throughout North […]

Hand hygiene is the most effective way to prevent infection transmission. This has been even more highlighted in current pandemic where with correct PPE and good HH, families were be able to visit and touch their loved ones. However, adequate HH actions are sometimes neglected due to high workload and time deficiency in healthcare settings. […]

I will be working on open MIDaaS project. It stands for Mobile Identity as a Service. The project aims at making a mobile application the centre of user authentication. The app will be like a personal wallet which will store the list of attributes like verified email, address, and phone and credit card numbers. A […]

Synthetic population generation is the process of combining multiple socioeonomic and demographic datasets from various sources and at different granularity, and downscaling them to an individual level. Although it is a fundamental step for many data science tasks, an efficient and standard framework is absent. In this project, we propose a multi-stage framework called SynC […]

The general goal of this project is to improve the downstream tasks by learning better representations of the data, especially multimodal data pairs, like image/text pairs or user/item interaction pairs. The user/item interaction data plays an important role in e-commerce, and analyzing these data can help improve the banking system, e.g., recommendation, risk control, and […]

The recording of brain activity through neural Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs) has a wide range of applications, such as studying brain patterns for seizure detection or brain stimulation to alleviate motor disorders. Some IMDs communicate with an external interface platform, which offloads the recorded data from, programs, and supplies power to the IMD. However, existing […]

Businesses today struggle with manual operations such as paper-based processes and copying and pasting information from one system to another. These manual operations are costing companies hours of unnecessary labour, which trickles down to customers that are expecting on demand services. SOTI has developed a software product called SOTI SNAP that allows anyone to create […]

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have been deployed in many real-world applications such as payload delivery, agricultural laboring, and aerial photography. Based on GPS-based localization algorithms, these drones have achieved many advancements in industry automation. However, since common GPS receivers do not work indoors, an accurate computer vision (CV) technique is required to resolve the problem […]

Canadian public and private researchers have taken an interest in a new class of light-emitting materials, subphthalocyanines, which can produce better colour in OLED smartphone and television screens. The materials can be optimized for specific purposes by using slightly different ingredients in their synthesis, or by reacting them with other ingredients after synthesis, but most […]