The management of ash residues has been a major problem for pulp and paper mills worldwide due to their characteristics and the large amounts generated. The combination of increased generation of ash residues, stringent landfill policies and increased cost is pushing mills to search for innovative ways to manage their ash residues. As a result, […]

  Indoor air quality has received immense attention in past decades, considering it is more heavily polluted than outdoor environments. People generally spend more than 80% of their time indoors, which contributes to a higher risk of inhaling pollutants. Air cleaning is the most feasible way to improve indoor air quality. Most of indoor air […]

  We aim to develop a new algorithm to detect changes in serial MR examinations. Computer‐based change detection system is an important tool to automatically process abundant information produced by imaging systems and assist physicians to identify clinically important changes in the images. Many existing methods are computationally costly. The emerging mathematical theory of compressed […]

  New ideas need to be thoroughly examined and tested t o investigate the quality and implications of the innovation. For this researchers need access to good tools to perform experiments, and in software research this means to have full access to the source code of the tool chains and the platform. Another crucial element […]

  This proposal advances the development of effective power microconverters built in mainstream digital CMOS technologies without any modifications to the standard fabrication process. The study of high-voltage techniques for the co-integration of microconverters in low-voltage processes not only will avoid the fabrication complexity of high-voltage devices, it will also reduce the number of heterogeneous chips and discrete components. […]

  This project involves the optimal aerodynamic design of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), making use of stateoftheart computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamic shape optimization techniques. The algorithm development will focus on modeling and exploiting laminarturbulent transition in the optimization cycle. The project should result in new and significantly improved aerodynamic shape optimization tools. This has the potential […]

Microwave tomography (MWT) is a relatively new imaging modality that uses electromagnetic radiation to illuminate an object. Using the scattered field by the object of interest, MWT reconstructs the image of the object. We have been doing research on this topic for a few years and we have successfully developed several computational-imaging algorithms and experimental […]

  Numerous evidences have shown cardiovascular risk factors, such as high blood pressure, obesity or physical inactivity, etc, to be related to heart disease. However, some risk factors remain unclear because of technical challenges from current diagnostic tools. Hardening of the arteries, one of the potential risk factors, has been regarded as the primary indicator […]

  Metabolic syndrome is a clustering of risk factors that increases the risk of developing heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Exercise improves these risk factors, but it is difficult to get people to engage in lifestyle changes. We will test the effectiveness of prescribed exercise to improve fitness and cardiovascular risk factors in a […]

  The purpose of this project is to develop a mathematical model that will effectively answer scheduling and capacity planning challenges for meeting wait time targets for surgeries at Ottawa Hospital. We look to incorporate both operating room time and bed utilization in a sequential decision model of the surgical scheduling process from ‘decision to […]

  The proposed MITACS project is intended to be a vital component of a manual wheelchair simulation project at Toronto Rehab’s CEAL Laboratory, which will re-create the experience of navigating the built environment with a wheelchair. Specifically, the internship will focus on the design and fabrication of a novel wheelchair interface that provides a person with force-feedback at […]

  The proposed project will research the therapeutic effects of low intensity pulsed ultrasound on dentoalveolar structure on dogs.  The main research problems to be addressed by this project are: (1) study the effects of LIPUS (Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound) on the tooth root tissues (cementum and pulp) when moved orthodontically, and (2) study the effects […]