Soil and groundwater pollution with harmful petroleum contaminants such as BTEX is a global concern. BTEX has carcinogenic and mutagenic properties, therefore, it is essential to remove such contaminants for a healthy ecosystem. Microorganism-mediated bioremediation is an extremely promising technique that is cost-effective, efficient, and safe for the environment. However, limited biological knowledge about the […]

Sun Life Financial is carrying out its ERM and ORSA analysis. The company seeks to develop sophisticated and mathematically sound internal models that would serve as company’s own risk measurement tools for EC evaluations, provide continuing insights into the appropriate risk management routes, as well as be a benchmark against the RC required by the […]

PaceZero Capital Partners Ltd. (“PaceZero”) is a sustainability-focused private credit firm investing in established growth-stage technology companies that are generating quantifiable positive social and environmental outcomes. The project will consider innovative ways to further incorporate technology into loan origination, due diligence and underwriting processes.

PUBLIC was founded in 1988 by Public Access Collective, a Canadian charitable nonprofit organization committed to curating and producing innovative artistic research-creation projects and public interventions. Living Archives, Histories and Futures of Alternative Book Publishing is a research-creation project focused on developing PUBLIC Books and PUBLIC Online, including the further development of a more hybridized […]

Flocking behavior is the behavior exhibited when a group of birds, called a flock, are foraging or in flight. There are parallels with the shoaling behavior of fish, the swarming behavior of insects, and herd behavior of land animals. What we want to do is to build the mathematics models and use these models to […]

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death in the world. One person dies in Canada every five minutes from heart conditions, stroke, or vascular cognitive impairment. There have been 2.6 million CVD-related hospitalizations in Canada between 2007 and 2017. CVDs alone cost totaling $21.2 billion a year in direct (medical) and indirect (lost […]

The proposed REM project aims at developing and installing a highly iconographic solar charging station that will help inspire and foster the expansion of local infrastructure for electric vehicles at York University. This effort is part of a plan to use this innovative solar charging station to offset the electrical needs of EVs and most […]

This project aims to improve the way we assess the strength of short fiber reinforced composites, focusing on sustainability. By exploiting the distinct visibility traits of PEEK and carbon fibers in CT scans, the study will utilize non-destructive testing and computer algorithms to analyze and measure factors critical to the material’s strength directly from scan […]

The popularity of cryptocurrencies has continued to increase over the past years, raising serious policy concerns among Central Banks. Given the Bank of Canada’s role in maintaining financial stability, its 2019 Financial System Review identified the evolution of the cryptoasset market as one of six financial vulnerabilities that need to be monitored closely. Currently, in […]

EuroPassport aims to strategically position itself in the market with the introduction of a new SaaS platform to disrupt the legal immigration industry. This project focuses on comprehensive research and analysis to understand market dynamics, customer needs, and competitive landscapes.

In response to the dynamic challenges inherent in the gaming industry’s character animation pipelines, characterized by the labor-intensive and error-prone nature of manually labeling frame-by-frame data, this project endeavors to integrate Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) techniques into the animation workflow. SSL offers a compelling solution by enabling the acquisition of efficient and generalizable representations from large […]

We are embarking on an exciting research project that aims to enhance how we diagnose and treat depression in young adults aged 18-29. Our team will use machine learning to better understand how a person’s genetic makeup and life experiences can affect their mental health. Specifically, we will enhance a tool called YMI, developed by […]