This project focuses on the visible minorities with higher education or work skills (e.g., international graduates or skilled workers immigrants) and investigates the barriers for these immigrants to find a job at their level of skill and education. More specifically, this research seeks to understand how much racialized culture plays a part in recruiting diverse […]

Homelessness is a growing issue in Canada, with many cities including Montreal reporting increasing numbers of people experiencing homelessness on any given day. Youth homelessness is different from adult homelessness, because of the developmental stages (physical, mental, social, and emotional) youth are in and because of the unique barriers and challenges that they face. This […]

Coffee brewing process generates large amounts of spent coffee grounds (SCG). SCGs are often disposed as general garbage and transported to landfills, where they produce methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, contributing to global warming. Hence, an efficient waste management system is important for managing such waste. An efficient waste […]

It’s very likely that shoppers have experienced many choices when browsing their favorite clothing store, more than they can keep up with. Whether these clothes end up being bought or not, they are likely to have a similar fate, ending up in landfills as waste and contributing to climate change. An alternative to face this […]

L’interprétation des images dans le sens où on établit la relation et l’interaction des entités de ces images est une étape essentielle dans des tâches comme la description textuelle d’une image. Un graphe de scène est une façon bien positionnée pour établir cette information. Pour cette raison, ce projet proposé par Thales vise à explorer […]

To harvest renewable energy from ocean waves, in this research we propose to study innovative triboelectric nanogenerators, a new type of energy harvesters especially good at converting small-scale mechanical motions into electricity. Although ocean wave energy is one of the most abundant and widely distributed renewable energy resources, it has not yet been extensively used […]

In today’s world, the video chat and conferencing has been a necessary part of overall routine life (both personal and work). Currently, the video chat and broadcast technologies require lots of bandwidth to transmit high quality data. In overall project, we aim to make video transmission data intelligent by using the state-of-the-art AI technology. This […]

This research aims to address one of the challenging problems in open science, i.e., how to reliably ensure that authors share all of the datasets, code, protocols, and any new lab materials associated with their articles. The solution will employ state-of-the-art natural language processing techniques to detect sentences where authors describe data collection or the […]

In recent years we’ve seen evidence of youth activism related to important social causes. Although much has been written about Millennials and Generation Z, little is known about the generation of young people who are currently at the precipice of adolescence – Generation Alpha (born 2010 and later). This generation will inherit the post-COVID society […]

Visual analytics “the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces” is a new approach to the timely and effective analysis of complex technical and operational systems. Our previous MITACS internships at Aeroinfo applied this scientific approach to mixed-initiative human/computational analysis to improve aircraft safety & reliability analysis and business planning, resulting in changes […]

Pour accompagner les préposés dans les appels 9-1-1, Thales vise à proposer un outil qui décrit dans un texte en langage naturel les éléments pertinents d’une scène d’urgence. L’interprétation des images dans le sens où on établit la relation et l’interaction des entités de ces images est une étape essentielle dans des tâches comme la […]

Le Festival de Lanaudière est une organisation d’envergure au Canada. Rassemblant des dizaines de milliers de spectateurs depuis 1978, ce festival a pour mission de rassembler les gens de partout autour de la musique classique. C’est dans cette perspective d’engagement dans la collectivité que s’inscrit mon projet de recherche qui suivra les débuts du développement […]