Locating and characterizing undocumented orphaned wells across the United States

More than a hundred thousand documented orphaned oil and gas wells are known to exist in the United States, with potentially over a million remaining undocumented. Due to funding shortfalls, many orphaned wells remain unplugged and are negatively impacting human health, degrading the environment, and contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, such as methane. Nearly $5B […]

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Development of degradable bio-based polymers

Plastic waste is a global environmental priority for our generation. Many countries, including Canada, have introduced ambitious “zero-plastic waste” policies to move towards a circular plastic economy. The goal of this collaborative project is to develop novel degradable polymers sourced from bio-sourced materials. Polymers are made of repeating units linked by strong carbon-carbon covalent bonds. […]

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Algorithmic auditing through synthetic data

Algorithm auditing refers to the study and evaluation of algorithmic systems to ensure their transparency, fairness, legality and compliance with ethical standards. Our project focuses on the acceptability of practical audits where platforms provide synthetic data about algorithms, instead of the traditional approach with external audits without considering the collaboration of the platform. Technical implications […]

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Séjour de recherche à l’Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule (ICSM)

Mon projet de recherche vise à synthétiser des composites à base de nanoparticules métalliques et à réaliser des caractérisations électrochimiques (LSV, CV, CP, etc.), chimiques et physiques (TEM, XRD, XPS, etc.). L’étude du comportement électrochimique de ces composites me permettra d’approfondir ma compréhension de leur activité catalytique et de leur stabilité. De plus, les techniques […]

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Towards Causal Deep Learning for Explainability, Robustness, and Extrapolation

In many applications, Machine Learning (ML) predictions are used to make downstream decisions. Acting on ML predictions however can change the distribution of features that the ML model relies on for predictions. The implication is that such downstream decisions procedures implicitly expect the ML model to generalize outside of the observational distribution. Unfortunately, this is […]

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Russian usage of the AI technologies in the Invasion of Ukraine 2022-2024

The project is expected to deepen understanding of Artificial Intelligence in a modern Global Security context by analysing the practical implications of its usage by the Russian Federation in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The goal of the project is to create a comparative analysis and to reveal the difference or consistency within the declared […]

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Polyamide recycling project

This research focuses on recycling polyamides, especially polyamide 11 (PA11). Our goal is to study the effect of recycling processes on the thermal properties of PA11 by different techniques using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). This research project has the potential to set up new possibilities for improved methods of recycling by providing critical insights into […]

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Miniaturized Carbon Nitride-Based Electrochemiluminescence Assays for Detection of Cardiac Biomarkers

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a life-threatening medical condition, and it remains the primary reason for premature death (persons aged 25–64) worldwide. Therefore, early screening of cardiac biomarkers is critically important for improving survival chances. The existing methods for detecting cardiac biomarkers are multi-step approaches and require laboratory tests, which have higher test times, are […]

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Biocompatible Smart Nanovectors for the chemoterapy treatment of prostate cancer

In developed countries cancer is the second most important cause of death. Since 1 in 4 Canadians will die of the disease and 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer (PC), advanced chemotherapeutic treatments represent an important strategy to reduce cancer deaths without compromising a patients quality of life during and post-treatment. […]

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Aide à la conception d’un appareil de mesure de pression artérielle sans brassard (côté électronique)

La mesure de pression artérielle en continue et sans brassard est largement convoitée par le milieu clinique. Ce stage permettra de contribuer à une preuve de concept qui pourrait permettre cette mesure. Plus précisement, ce stage consiste à développer l’electronique permettant l’acquisition des données provenant de différents capteurs utilisé dans une telle mesure.

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