Un nouveau gisement d’or est en cours de découverte à Cheechoo, à la Baie James. Il s’agit de filons à caractère magmatique, des pegmatites, enrichies en or, le tout encaissé dans une lame de granite. Le projet vise à déterminer d’abord les différents types de filons, puis, pour chaque famille, de mesurer la distribution spatiale […]

NLP techniques have been used and tested for several years in different environments and for different applications/domains. The performances of the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) toolbox are closely related to the quality of the text but also on the specific knowledge-domain. Social Media content typically use short sentences with simple grammar and tend to include […]

Cyanotoxins, produced by blooms of cyanobacteria, have been a cause of concern, as they have the potential to compromise animal and human health. Because of increased nutrient loading and climate change, occurrence of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms and their toxins are increasing globally. The presence of these compounds in the Great Lakes and other water […]

This research is based on the recognition that heat pump technology has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reliance on fossil fuels, while providing space heating, space cooling and domestic hot water. Both internationally and in the Ontario context, a lack of industry knowledge and capacity has been noted to be a […]

Internet of things (IoT) includes of multitude of sensors from a wide variety of applications. These sensors produce high volume and high velocity data. In addition, the transmission errors and malfunction of devices also necessitates checking the reliability/veracity of incoming data. The volume, velocity, and veracity are three Vs that are commonly describe in the […]

Dans un contexte où le développement durable prend de plus en plus d’importance, il est primordial pour les gouvernements de valoriser les produits à faible empreinte carbone, tout en s’assurant de respecter les règles du droit commercial international, sous peine de se faire poursuivre par d’autres États, notamment à l’Organisation mondiale du Commerce. Cette recherche […]

Le développement économique de plusieurs régions du Québec et du Canada dépend à la fois d’une utilisation rationnelle du matériau bois et de la valorisation de toute sorte de matières bioressourcées. Le projet de recherche propose d’explorer différentes technologies de caractérisation et de valorisation de la fibre du bois et de la biomasse contaminée. Plus […]

Within the aerospace sector, aftermarket services account for over 50% of revenue generated by aero engine manufacturers. Central to this is the ability to inspect and repair high unit cost components. Many processes are manual but given the ever-increasing quality, cost and delivery requirements, and the safety critical nature of these rotating parts, there is […]

Benefit payments totaled 2.5 billion dollars for Ontario workplaces in 2015. The most common injury resulting in occupational lost time claims is a strain or sprain. These injuries indicate that despite massive efforts to reduce musculoskeletal injuries in Canadian workplaces, these issues are still a prominent source of disability and have an associated $2.5 billion […]

An artificial intelligence tool that is capable of generating natural-sounding speech can be embedded into many valuable services such as conversational agents for the disabled and conversational assistants. Such tool, when equipped with the capability of mimicking individuals’ vocal characteristics, will improve personalization of these services. In this project the intern will seek to develop […]

In a few words, this is a fintech data analysis project. The idea is, given temporal data of financial nature, to build algorithms that predict its evolution over time. For instance, the data could be certain assets prices, or customer buying history. The objective would be to respectively predict this asset price in a close […]

With the growing relevance of data, PwC has embraced Data & Analytics as part of its culture. The Tax practice, specifically, strives to bring value to market by empowering domain experts with automation and data-driven services. Among their initiatives, the Tax Technology team is investigating methods to evaluate the quality of corporate tax returns (T2). […]