Seabed hydrocarbon seeps are environments where petroleum fluids from deep warm sources migrate upwards through marine sediments and up into the water column. These are important biological environments that also have industrial applications. Seeps can be indicative of deep petroleum reserves and are used in oil exploration. They also host microbial communities that are capable […]

IRISNDT deploys customized workflow productivity enhancement apps that are used by technicians in the field when performing Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and mechanical work. This project will leverage expertise in AI at the University of Alberta to develop and deploy a suite of Data Science and Analytics tools to complement IRISNDT existing capabilities. The project will […]

The intern will develop a bookkeeping/accounting procedural handbook for Solaris. This will require them to learn standard bookkeeping and accounting practices that small businesses engage in, critically think through these processes, and finally- refine and ensure that these processes are efficient. Solaris, the partner organization, will benefit by having a written procedural handbook that will […]

The proposed project will extend the AI4Buzz (http://ai4buzz.ca/) platform in three ways: social-network analysis, real-rime streaming data analysis, and statistical hypothesis exploration and testing. The platform has been developed in collaboration with CECN through a previous MITACS grant, entitled “A Toolkit For Analyzing Online Conversations for Solutions Based Policy Development” led by Dr. Lefsrud.

DocuSafe Systems Inc. is a Canadian-based company that provides document processing services including document authentication and notarization. This project explores the use of a so-called layer 2 blockchain-based solutions in order to make the traditional document authentication less costly. A major benefit of a layer 2 blockchain solution over the use of the layer one […]

The Town of Stony Plain is seeking an intern to create a Greenspace Plan that will establish an inventory and identify existing uses of parks and greenspaces, and outline future uses, monitoring, and management practices as they relate to recreation, active transportation, utilities, and stormwater, among others. The Town currently has some of this information […]

Climate-focused livelihood adaptation driven by donor-funded technocratic development projects has emerged as an instrumental strategy for addressing vulnerabilities of communities in the Global South. However, critical calls are rising for a more nuanced understanding of climate victims’ local realities (which often contrast significantly from national political agendas and climate crisis narratives), socio-spatial dynamics of vulnerability […]

In this Mitacs Cluster project, we aim to investigate and improve performance of deep survival models developed by Ortho Biomed Inc., our industrial collaborator. The main objective is to predict clinical outcomes, such as time of death, and the time of organ failure before and after surgery, more accurately and more efficiently. Architecturally, Ortho Biomed […]

ArrKann Trailer & RV Centre is a third-generation family-owned and operated privately held business. The company has six locations throughout Alberta, and over 130 employees. ArrKann has experienced significant growth over the past four years, adding four of their current six locations, and increasing their headcount by 49%. Recently, the company has developed an IT […]

Currently the RMA/Canoe uses spreadsheets and paper copies of receipts to submit expense claims and for company credit card tracking. Manually entering this information into a spreadsheet and managing the multiple paper copies of the receipts has become cumbersome for our employees’ submitting expenses, as well as for our payroll and accounting team. We are […]

On behalf of ATB Financial, the project investigates key market intelligence to support decision making in the context of corporate development efforts aligned to the mission and strategic plan of the sponsor.

New innovative technology is proposed for Recycled Asphalt Shingles (RAS) to produce cold mix asphalt (CMA) for dust control in unpaved roads. This novel method will design a mix of bitumen/RAS/water emulsions that break in a controlled manner upon field application. The effect of asphaltenes, petroleum solvents, emulsifier type, concentration and properties, and the preparation […]