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 […]

The placement project will investigate the use of machine learning for modelling and control of an offshore wind powered direct air capture (DAC) system. DAC remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere which is injected into deep-sea reservoirs and are a key negative emission technology, which are becoming increasingly vital as a climate change mitigation […]

When lava enters the ocean, the molten rock spreads out and solidifies, creating a new shelf of land known as a lava delta. There have been a number of significant examples of such events over the last few years, notably at Kilauea, Hawaii in 2018, and Cumbre Vieja, La Palma in 2021. The physics of […]

The research project will investigate the impacts of the US-Canada border on conservation of at-risk species around the region of the Okanagan watershed, in the context of culture, politics and land governance. Species distribution modelling will be used to compare distributions of selected species either side of the border, and environmental, social and geographical variables […]

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) represents a considerable burden to Canada, an issue exacerbated by the underdiagnosis of the disease in the general population. There is a need to improve early access to care for COPD patients; early intervention to manage symptoms can improve patient outcomes and reduce the likelihood of costly hospitalizations. This project […]