Learning to Rank through User Interest Mining: Towards Search Personalization

In online shopping, search results often have inherent ambiguity. Two customers using the same term as search query might have completely different expectations of the displayed results. For example, when the users type in the query “headphone”, some of them might expect over-ear headphone with passive noise isolation, while others might expect in-ear headphone with […]

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Improving Q-RT-PCR screening for COVID-19 by tracking viral variants

This project will extend on our labs initial findings that current q-RT-PCR based screening strategies for COVID-19 patients can fall within variant regions of the SARS-CoV2 viral sequence and may potentially lead to false negative results. This project, in collaboration with BioXplor will lead to the development of online bioinformatics tool that will allow tracking […]

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Spoken Language Identification for Children

While taking foreign language tests, people may respond in languages other than the expected one. Typical scoring systems are trained only on the expected language, so unexpected language responses can have unusual results in speech recognition and scoring. Pearson would like to develop a more robust system for the automated speech recognition machine to know […]

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SOTI SNAP Blockly – Building Apps Without Programming

SOTI SNAP is an application development platform that allows users to create applications with little or no programming knowledge. By utilizing a block-based approach, users can drag and drop blocks and pre-made widgets and connect together to create applications in minutes. Apps made using SOTI SNAP can run on both Android- and iOS-based devices. The […]

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Design and Development of COVID-19 Automated UV Object Disinfection Cabinet

Highly infectious COVID-19 has had widespread effects on Canadian and global health, security, and economy. While vaccines play a key role in preventing viral diseases, various measures should be taken to slow their spread. Among preventative measures, disinfection systems are of paramount importance to battle COVID-19. The objective of this project is to design and […]

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LiI’wat Nation Assessment of On-Reserve Agriculture

The Lil’wat Nation has been situated in its location since time immemorial at which it has also been asserting its inherent right to govern within its traditional territory. The Nation’s current 5-year Strategic Plan (2010 – 2015) calls for an objective to “Increase the production value of on-reserve agriculture”. With this stated goal, the Nation […]

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Does cannabidiol mitigate the effects of COVID-19 and potential therapies for COVID-19?

Patients most vulnerable to COVID-19 have pre-existing illnesses, including diabetes and heart disease. Two potential treatments in clinical trials for COVID-19 are the anti-malarial drug, hydroxychloroquine, and the antibiotic, azithromycin. These drugs can cause side-effects, including cardiac arrhythmias which can lead to heart failure, that make them inappropriate for the most vulnerable COVID-19 patients. Cardiac […]

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SOTI SNAP SDK For creating third-party widget

This project dedicates to leverage the use of SOTI snap app to a greater community by providing more flexibility for third-party users and reducing required prior programming knowledge. To do this, we will focus on building a Software Development Kit (SDK) so that third parties can create and publish new widgets allowing SNAP apps to […]

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Deposition modeling, generalized process planning, and Design for Additive Manufacturing for fabrication of large scale and radial components by robotic large-scale additive manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, uses computer-aided design to build objects layer by layer. AM enables complex designs with reduced component lead time, cost, material waste, energy usage and carbon footprint. Large scale robotic AM (> 1 m cubed) using wire arc welding is an emerging field offering scalability of AM to […]

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Développement d’un exosquelette pour les travailleurs de la construction afin de réduire les efforts au tronc et aux épaules

Les blessures ou lésions au travail constituent la 2e cause la plus importante d’invalidité au monde. Afin d’aider les travailleurs dans leurs tâches et réduire l’exposition aux blessures, l’utilisation d’exosquelettes est une avenue prometteuse. Il existe déjà plusieurs exosquelettes d’assistance pour la production automobile et les industries manufacturières, mais ceux-ci ne sont pas adaptés aux […]

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