Deux serres expérimentales de tomates biologiques cultivées en plein sol sont utilisées dans le cadre de ce projet. La serre témoin est refroidie et déshumidifiée par ventilation naturelle tandis que la serre prototype utilise un système de géothermie. L’objectif du présent projet est de comparer et de quantifier les performances agronomiques des deux régies de […]

Silver-haired bats are common species of bat found in North America. They use cavities in trees and space under loose bark to roost, or rest and raise young. The silver-haired bat is thought to migrate south over the winter. Despite this, we have found them in parts of British Columbia during the winter, suggesting they […]

Currently, data analytics services are not only expensive, but also often require days of delay for the data analytics report to be generated. The project focuses on making use of a user’s voice query as an input to create a data analytics response by aggregating data from a database. The successful implementation of the project […]

Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles (AUVs) are systems that are capable of maneuvering in the air, on the ground, above or under the water. There are a number of potential applications for AUVs in civilian, military, and security areas and AUVs have great potential benefits to Canada for numerous reasons. This proposed Mitacs-Alliance project aims to advance […]

Machine learning has ushered many breakthroughs in areas such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, and recommendation systems. The models used in these applications contain many parameters that need to be learned and training often requires massive amounts of computation. As such in recent years graphics processor units (GPUs) have seen wide adoption […]

Movement of sediment through landslide activities dominates sediment transport in headwater channels, and exerts a strong control on downstream channel morphology and aquatic habitat. Landslide and debris flow activity in headwater channels is controlled in part by the intensity of precipitation events. At Russell Creek Experimental Watershed on northern Vancouver Island, high resolution, remotely sensed […]

The existing approach to building Machine Learning models includes gathering all the data from customers in one place and then running the training procedure using it. However, there are no guarantees personal data won’t be leaked by the one training the model. So, the customers face a difficult decision of either allowing companies to gather […]

While the partner organization for this project is the Howe Sound Biosphere Region Initiative Society (HSBRIS), the intent of this project is to concurrently benefit Forestry companies working in the Howe Sound and Canadians as a whole as we strive in our commitment to the UNSDGs. Bioshpere regions are mandated to promote SDGs, educate, and […]

Aerial full-motion video, marine systems and space-based earth observation share key characteristics: they involve critical infrastructure, they rely on sensitive information and they require strong data provenance. We have applied cryptographic techniques — derived from both historic security protocols and newer blockchain systems — to create a novel research cryptographic filesystem in a previous Mitacs […]

HyperMabs is a protein engineering company focused on the development of therapeutics for diseases with high unmet need including Covid-19. The role of the Translational Science Team is to discover and develop biomarkers that indicate pharmacodynamic response to the company’s therapeutics as well as support the relevance of the targeted biological pathways in diseases of […]

HyperMabs is a protein engineering company focused on the development of therapeutics for diseases with high unmet need including Covid-19. The role of the Translational Science Team is to discover and develop biomarkers that indicate pharmacodynamic response to the company’s therapeutics as well as support the relevance of the targeted biological pathways in diseases of […]

Acknowledging that discrimination and prejudice of various sorts (e.g., verbal, behavioural, environmental) continue to exist in the education system, this research seeks to address how and why microaggressions against Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC), within engineering departments, show up among peers in classrooms, across interactions in lab environments, group-activities, and more. This research […]