Portfolio managers evaluate stocks to find those with the best expected returns, but they need risk measures to complete their decision-making process. The project has the objective to give adequate risk metrics to portfolio managers for a given portfolio and a list of potential candidates. Historical price values are useful to determine risk, but they […]

The current research project aims to investigate internal communication among organizations in the IT industry and whether communication experiences are different among minorities and women in the organizations. A diverse workplace is important to facilitate an inclusive, productive, and healthy workplace. However, no study has looked at how communication to women and diverse employees may […]

To assist Vope Medical achieve clear vision in surgery, Zishen will be working creating and enhancing a defogging algorithm in accordance with best practices in the relevant literature and optimizing it so it can be run in real-time to enhance contaminated surgical image feeds. Processes will be documented so they can used to track what […]

Hand hygiene is the most effective way to prevent infection transmission. This has been even more highlighted in current pandemic where with correct PPE and good HH, families were be able to visit and touch their loved ones. However, adequate HH actions are sometimes neglected due to high workload and time deficiency in healthcare settings. […]

I will be working on open MIDaaS project. It stands for Mobile Identity as a Service. The project aims at making a mobile application the centre of user authentication. The app will be like a personal wallet which will store the list of attributes like verified email, address, and phone and credit card numbers. A […]

Projet de recherche sur la culture de microalgues dans des eaux usées d’un parc industriel sous une perspective d’économie circulaire où la biomasse de microalgues est récoltée pour ensuite être incorporer à un pâte cellulosique destinée à la fabrication de produits thermoformés pour une entreprise du même parc.

Bauxite residue, known as “red mud,” is a major solid waste during alumina extraction from bauxite (alumina is further processed to produce aluminum). Red mud has attracted water treatment engineers due to its high adsorptive capability, and it has shown promise in remediating a wide range of industrial effluents. In this Mitacs Accelerate project, the […]

Vaolo est une plateforme technologique innovante dans le secteur du voyage, au croisement entre les plateformes transactionnelles, collaboratives et sociales. Vaolo est une entreprise d’innovation sociale qui vise à propulser le voyage de demain, un voyage éco responsable plus humain et respectueux de la planète et des communautés locales. Sa mission est de développer une […]

Synthetic population generation is the process of combining multiple socioeonomic and demographic datasets from various sources and at different granularity, and downscaling them to an individual level. Although it is a fundamental step for many data science tasks, an efficient and standard framework is absent. In this project, we propose a multi-stage framework called SynC […]

Au Canada et ailleurs, les projets d’infrastructures tirent leur légitimité du fait qu’ils répondent à des besoins réels, c’est-à-dire qu’ils profitent concrètement aux citoyens. Depuis le lancement (en 2016) du plan à long terme Investir dans le Canada, 119 milliards de dollars ont en ce sens été investis dans 77000 projets allant “du transport en […]

Ce projet vise à développer les outils nécessaires pour les conseilleurs des stratégies numériques afin d’aider les PME du Canada à garder leurs compétences dans le marché mondial. Ces outils aident à augmenter l’efficacité opérationnelle des entreprises manufacturière, augmenter leurs revenus et réduire leurs frustrations, par suite, augmenter la satisfaction des clients et favoriser un […]

Response to an oil spill involving wildlife can be challenging in the Pacific Northwest. The terrain, weather and remoteness of many locations are all elements to be considered when determining an effective response strategy. A goal of a wildlife response team is to be as prepared as possible when responding to an incident. The animals […]