Ensuring biodiversity is maintained as Edmonton continues to grow is vital in maintaining Regional connectivity and ensuring long term sustainability of the City’s natural systems and the ecosystem services that it provides to Edmonton’s residents. The goal of this project is to identify public open space site characteristics that are associated with increased (or decreased) […]

This project focuses on the development of an automated system to detect images consisting of skin moles. The detection of images consisting of moles will play a central role in dermatology screening using telemedical and virtual healthcare platforms. Upon classification, images consisting of moles will be sent to specialists for further diagnosis and treatment procedures. […]

Representing the collective consensus of global prescriptions of value, financial markets represent a sophisticated and complex system of academic and practitioner study. Quantitative and systematic investment strategies seek to understand characteristics of the market, and design investment strategies to profit off of those market features. A persistent and well-known market feature, known as trend, represents […]

Combinatorial optimization problems widely appear in various social and industrial applications, such as the vehicle routing and transportation problems. They are challenging to solve for traditional computing. Moreover, especially in edge devices, there is a high demand for in-time response and low power. However, the large energy consumption for these numerous operations and data fetches […]

The main objective to be addressed is the identification and maintenance of diversified sources of funding available for ASBA. The methodology to be used will include conduction of surveys, interviews and customer observation. The intern is responsible for identifying unique and innovative tools available to be used in facilitating access to potential funding sources. These […]

Through an innovative platform, entitled “Alberta Film Hub”, this project builds an ecosystem for Alberta Film and TV community to connect, flourish, and thrive together in a more structured manner. The platform, therefore, will aid and expand the potential of economic growth in the art and cultural sector. It will boost the productions in Alberta […]

It is evident that children require support for executive function and emergent literacy development to optimize their personal well-being, school, learning and life success. This project focuses on how to best support executive function [EF] and early emergent literacy [EL] acquisition for our children by providing a parent and early childcare community with strategies on […]

Plasma activated water (PAW) is water that carries active species generated by cold plasm. Chemical species generated from plasma treatment are complex matrix consisting of free radicals and ions. Reactive nitrogen and oxygen species (RNOS) produced by cold plasma discharge with air as the working gas contribute to highly desired functionalities of PAW for a […]

RUNWITHIT Synthetics Inc., University of Alberta, and the interns in this Mitacs project will use synthetic modelling to design, optimize and trial approaches for improving the efficiency of resilience investments in technology, grid management and infrastructure. Under many different circumstances, including both natural and human-made disasters such as earthquakes and cyberattacks, traditional grids are vulnerable […]

Plants closely reflect the climate where they grow as they are immobile and must interact and adapt to the conditions of their environment. Given this relationship between plants and the environment, fossil plants can be used to reconstruct past environments, and groups of fossil plants more generally provide a valuable record of ancient climates and […]

In preparation for increasing its deployment of last-mile fibre, TELUS has engaged the University of Alberta to study the most efficient and cost-effective installation methods for Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) deployment where there are no existing telecommunications rights of way. The methods we will explore are divided into two categories: 1.) Direct Buried Methods (micro-trenching, Horizontal Directional […]

Leaf Area Index (LAI) is an important variable to measure when revegetating and reclaiming disturbed ecosystems. Estimating LAI from models using remotely sensed data is becoming increasingly common; Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems, or ‘RPAS’ in particular, have the potential to grow in importance as they can acquire the fine scale spatial data necessary to accurately […]