This project aims to improve energy efficiency and conservation in commercial buildings through statistical modeling and data analysis. Computer software will be developed which can predict future building energy consumption, and assist in diagnosing misconfigured equipment and recommending ways to save energy within buildings. This project is joint work between Pulse Energy, a Vancouver-based company […]

We seek to replace or enhance the traditional underwriting approach (namely identification of insureds via a pre-defined fixed set of risk criteria) with one based on a set of dynamic protocols that are responsive to human behavioral factors for continual health improvement. We seek to provide a live and interactive in-market research dataset that can […]

Proactive road safety analysis allows for the pre-emptive diagnosis of road safety issues without direct observation of traffic accidents by observing traffic-conflict-like events, and this is made possible with large quantities of high-resolution road user trajectory data acquired from video data. However, several practical challenges exist in relation to the nature of this data for […]

The goal of this project is to improve and study algorithms and methods for better network connectivity in mobile environment, when multiple, different networks are available. The goals include studying techniques for combining capabilities of independent network links, improve the methods of migrating existing connections between different physical networks, as well as studying the impact […]

The project that you will be working on is titled “Microscope adapter for smart phone camera”. As such we have made quite a bit of progress and have made two prototypes of microscope that can be interfaced with a smartphone. However, now we will like to have advanced features like fluorescent microscopy. So the final […]

As consumer preferences shift from shopping at brick and mortar stores to on-line shopping, there is an increased need for warehouses to use automated systems that fill orders quickly and accurately. This research project will design a warehouse robot that is adaptable to different platform systems and shelving configurations, providing a lighter, faster, and more […]

Mediphage Bioceuticals aims to leverage its DNA ministring platform for personalized genetic medicine. Mediphage Bioceuticals Inc. greatly appreciate Mitacs Accelerate program in providing support to (1) validate msDNA for gene delivery by carrying out a two-phase study, (2) develop and validate phage display libraries for the specific targeting and delivery to target host cells, and […]

In a conventional solar cell, over half of the incident sunlight goes to waste, due to failure by the stable semiconductors to absorb the lower energy ranges of the solar spectrum. Attempts to improve the semiconductor absorption capabilities have proved difficult, with relatively little progress made thus far. An alternative solution is to make the […]

A collaborative research project between the University of Waterloo, Partners in Project Green (PPG) and the Toronto and Region Conservation authority (TRCA) will attempt to better understand the waste management systems of industrial companies in the surrounding the Pearson Airport so as to assist with goals of urban sustainability in the province of Ontario. Both […]

The City of Ottawa is proactive in its drinking water treatment practices and has worked with Health Canada in developing frameworks for integration of quantitative microbial risk assessments (QMRA) into drinking water treatment decision-making. While considerable data necessary for applying QMRA in Ottawa are available regarding protozoan pathogens and treatment indicators during various periods of […]

The aim of this project is to design fast computing a fundamental mathematical object called algebraic relations, particularly on Pade approximants and multivariate interpolants. This is motivated by numerous important applications, within computer algebra itself and in related fields such as cryptology, coding theory, and polynomial optimization. The goal is twofold: first, to design algorithms […]

Electric power is almost entirely transmitted through polymer insulated cables or wires in every home, factory, plant or apparatus. If the temperature of a cable increases, it would be an indication that some accidents or malfunctions such as inflow of excess electric current occur in the cable. The generated heat, indeed, degrades the polymer insulations […]