Co-processing has been commercialised by Parkland Burnaby refinery which allows the refiner to produce lower carbon intensity fuels. Significant amount of process data has also been generated. The intern made use of the commercial data and evaluated the impact of these alternative feedstocks to existing refining operation, like yield, operating conditions. More importantly, the intern […]

Seismic risk reduction planning for existing buildings must begin with a quantitative account of risk, and it must contain an objective basis grounding the various policy options considered within it. This work aims to develop a methodology to generate that objective policy basis, leveraging seismic risk modelling outputs to detail the benefits of various policy […]

Generation Health (GH) is a family-based intervention targeting families of children who are off the healthy weight trajectory. The GH is a 10-week program offered across BC where children and their families meet once a week online. Parents will be provided with healthy lifestyle content and will engage in discussions on how to engage in […]

Greenhouse gas emissions from commercial vehicles are a major contributor to climate change worldwide and need to be reduced to meet net-zero GHG targets. High-efficiency engines will continue to be used in many countries for the foreseeable future; switching the fuel to low-carbon methane blended with renewably generated Hydrogen offers a pathway to low net […]

Brainswitch Labs is a Vancouver-based startup in the VR Health space. We are developing an application that helps mental health therapists to get their patients into a mental state receptive to therapy. Our goal for this time period is to release a public version of our product to the Meta App lab marketplace.

In recent years, video conferencing has become a popular communication channel. However, for people with Parkinson’s disease, speech problems like stutters, gaps, and ticks can quickly derail a conversation and render video communication services unusable. Live captioning can be very helpful, but only if the captions have sufficient quality. To facilitate communication, we propose to […]

Niobium (Nb) has properties that make it very attractive for high performance applications in space (e.g. rocket engines) and on earth (superconducting cavities used in particle accelerators), yet it also creates some particular challenges for the successful manufacturing of parts from it. The material is difficult to form into the complex shapes required for application. […]

Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are used to document the climate impact of construction and other materials. The Company is working with nonprofit BuildingTransparency.org to digitize EPDs and make them available in a free, open-access database. The company uses scripts and AI to read the PDF-based EPDs and digitize them. The project involves reviewing partly-digitized EPDs, […]

The severity of future wildfires is expected to increase due to climate change, with societal and ecological consequences. My project aims to understand the drivers of the Sparks Lake fire that burned 95,980 hectares to the north of Kamloops (British Columbia, Canada) in 2021. First, I will quantify burn severity of the Sparks Lake fire […]

The proposed research seeks to investigate four ways to support sound decision making and sustainable development by: 1. developing an integrated approach to planning using a combination of scenario creation and structured decision making (SDM); 2. testing methodological improvements to SDM by increasing our understanding of how to measure values and preferences; 3. examining how […]

22CAN Inc is an AI-enabled Canadian recruiting start-up where we leverage our DigitalTwin recommender platform that match similar (“twin” concept) knowledge professionals to opportunities. Our project focus is: NLP Algorithm Experimentation. This is where we will advance the 22CAN NLP platform through advanced algorithm experimentation.

Detecting changes in a building using remote sensing images has been an essential research topic in Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) and used for characterization and quantification of change detection on footprints of buildings or buildings’ rooftops. The purpose of the research project includes the choosing and testing RS and GIS methods […]