This research is intended to improve community safety and crime prevention in urban and rural Indigenous communities. Currently, community safety encounters numerous pressing Indigenous related challenges such as knowledge gaps concerning factors influencing safety and crime prevention within Indigenous communities, as well as efforts toward decolonizing community safety. This research initiative aims to develop culturally […]

Over the last century, continued population growth and industrialization have resulted in the degradation of various ecosystems on which human life relies on. In the case of ocean and river quality, such pollution is primarily caused by the discharge of inadequately treated industrial and municipal wastewater. On initial discharge, the wastewater contains high levels of […]

This project is meant to develop a Hybrid AI Platform for Streamlining Evaluation (HAIPSE) of applications assisting the partner organization, The NIB Trust Fund, in processing the two categories of funding applications. The NIB Trust Fund supports education programs of the First Nation and Métis individuals and organizations aimed at healing, reconciliation, and knowledge building. […]

TERRA FIRMA (TF), an InterAccess-led project, aims to grow relationships between arts organizations and Black, Indigenous, and Disability Justice-centred (BIDJ) communities by platforming, learning from, and supporting these communities’ techno-cultural knowledge stewardship, accessibility, and harm reduction models. The project will prototype and implement organizational tools collaboratively with these communities, sharing resources and knowledge within artistic, […]

Generating synthetic data is important for a number of machine learning problems at Mastercard especially in the areas of additional data generation for imbalanced problems, data sharing etc. The data is mostly tabular in nature and a number of techniques exist for generating tabular data in the literature. However most of these techniques do not […]

The overall goal of this project is for the University science team at the University of Ottawa and University of New Brunswick to develop high quality Echinacea products for Canadian and world markets in collaboration with Amway Canada. One objective involves phytochemical and pharmacological selection and propagation of elite Echinacea from the historic Echinacea germplasm […]

Innovation is increasingly necessary to alleviate the systemic strain on healthcare systems around the world. However, despite significant investment in universities and hospitals to support the integration and application of research its application continues to greatly lag research discoveries. Graduate students play an increasing role in addressing this issue. They have the knowledge, motivation, and […]

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Music interventions have been seen to be effective in promoting social, emotional, and cognitive wellbeing, and may be specifically favoured by older adults. However, little is known on the effectiveness of a music intervention that is adapted to the mood and preferences of individual older adults. To fill this gap, the proposed project will assess […]

Gene therapy has the potential to cure a wide range of debilitating genetic diseases. One of the best ways to correct a genetic defect is to use a viral vector to deliver a functional copy of the gene to cells in the body so that they can express a functional protein and reverse the disease […]

The goal of this study is to observe how a national service dog’s presence in a hospital setting impacts the mental health of various healthcare workers. The research trainee will observe the interactions between the dog and the staff and log detailed information regarding the interaction. When appropriate, the research trainee will conduct brief interviews […]

This project develops and benchmarks novel offline training algorithms for AI navigation in gaming environments. As such, it is intended to be a self-contained project. Traditional video game navigation heavily relies on navigation meshes (navmeshes) for pathfinding. Navmeshes offer a simplified representation of complex environments but face limitations in portraying nuanced navigation abilities, such as […]