Global warming is a well-known global phenomenon that has been in the headlines for the past few decades. Greenhouse gases (Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Carbon Monoxide, etc.) are the major contributors to global warming and several governments have been working towards limiting such emissions by introducing emission guidelines. Carbon Dioxide is the gas of interest in […]

Procedural content (text and video) is abundant on the internet, and is regularly used in our daily lives, e.g., when we follow a cooking recipe to make a dish, or watch an instructional furniture assembly video. Automatically understanding such content allows for the development of various types of AI assistants, including those that can provide […]

Traditionally, software for home products could not be changed once they were shipped. Furthermore, they could not run complex machine learning (ML) models because their computing and storage capacities are limited due to budget constraints. Recent advancements of cloud infrastructure, however, may allow such products to collect a large amount of data and continuously update […]

The goal of cross-modal recipe retrieval is to design systems that are able to find a digital recipe, given the user’s image of the food, or find its image, given its ingredients or cooking instructions. For such a cross- modal retrieval task, a common image-text representation space is needed to embed the semantic information of […]

Women are vastly underrepresented in venture capital (VC) firms. There is also a lack of women entering the field of venture capital due to systemic barriers and a lack of momentum to shift existing barriers for women to enter the venture capital world. This research aims to understand the current status of women in VC […]

The approach to assessing Atlantic salmon in Newfoundland is based on patterns of salmon production and habitat that were established for populations in rivers much further south. The physical and biological characteristics of watersheds and rivers in Newfoundland are different from the southern rivers and the bases for conservation decisions are likely inappropriate. Establishing relationships […]

Observable Market Data is critical for effective valuation of trades for risk management purposes within the investment bank. The valuation process requires the existence of good quality data day by day, and dating back into the mid-2000’s. Not all assets have highly liquid data available either historically or at present, and there is significant interest […]

After being bred, sows are commonly housed in individual stalls, which restricts their movement and impacts their well-being. For this reason, Canadian farmers are transitioning to housing sows in groups where sows have social interaction and greater movement. Groups can be formed right after breeding, with either a constant group (static: the same sows remain […]

The core value of Nureva is to provide reliable and easy-to-use audio-conferencing products that offer a good user experience and maximize productivity. A very important factor of that is to output clean audio which oftentimes in its raw form is contaminated with environmental noise, reverberation, and echo. These problems have been researched using traditional signal […]

Climate change is one of the most urgent and pressing issues facing society. In order to meet aggressive greenhouse gas emission targets, the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (known as Direct Air Capture, DAC) is required. However, once captured, the CO2 must be purified from the capture solution before it can be used […]

This research project will develop new methods for detecting space debris, communication signals, and moon dust equipped on spacecraft and satellites to be launched in the future. One of the major concerns with equipment orbiting Earth is the possible collision with space debris. Also, a lunar outpost equipped with the Canadarm3 is planned for completion […]

While electric vehicles (EVs) are generally viewed as non-polluting and environmentally friendly, EV utilization brings other concerns such as: range anxiety, battery charging issues, cost of electricity, and network overload. Furthermore even though EVs are better for the environment in comparison with the traditional vehicles powered with internal combustion engine, they are still vehicles on […]