Asthma is an airway disease affecting over 330 million people worldwide. More than >5% of people with asthma experience uncontrolled severe disease despite being treated with high doses of steroids which give them a lot of bad side effects1,2. The availability of a new class of drugs recently called biologics have reduced the number of […]

At large, the desire of the Mitacs Research Grant is to gain understanding of surgery as a new field of science, dubbed Surgical Data Science (SDS), and to provide computer knowledge compatible robot system development through ontology driven Surgical Process Modeling (SPM) and Deep Learning (DL) methods, which can lead to autonomous surgical phase detection-based […]

A prominent feature of urban development in the present era is the forced eviction of communities living in informal settlements to make space for infrastructural projects. The research project looks at the livelihood strategies adopted by women in the Lallubhai Compound, a resettlement colony in Mumbai, to navigate the effects of their displacement due to […]

With the aging of the Canadian population, the number of people living with dementia is projected to increase. Due to a lack of disease-modifying treatments for dementia, there is a pressing need to better understand how we can reduce dementia risk across all Canadians. A wide range of modifiable risk factors for dementia have been […]

Racialized newcomer women often face significant challenges in accessing mentorship opportunities, which can be caused by a range of factors including language barriers, cultural differences, lack of networks, and discrimination. To address these challenges, the ‘Her Mentors’ project aims to develop inclusive mentorship programs specifically designed for racialized newcomer women and provide targeted support and […]

The Multivariate Polynomial Digital Signature Scheme (MPPK-DS) is a new Post-Quantum cryptographic scheme that relies on the hardness of solving a set of multivariate polynomials. The scheme is an ideal candidate for the new NIST call for Post-Quantum digital signature algorithms that intents to diversify the post-quantum signature standards. In this project, we will work […]

this research project aims to synthesize micro(aero)gel based composite beads with different compositions: Ti3C2Tx/Acrylic acid (AA), or Acrylamide Aam), or Sodium Alginate (SA) structures and morphologies such as composite and core-shell, using microfluidic droplet generation process for water purification. We will conduct a comprehensive study to investigate the effect of particle size, morphology (core-shell versus […]

With intersectionality theory as the underlying framework for this project, the first aim of this project is to identify specific social locations that are associated with depression/depressive symptoms among post-secondary students. I intend to investigate social locations that go beyond the traditional social justice considerations of intersections between only race/ethnicity and gender. The second aim […]

Our group specializes in the design of optical fibers that can generate entangled pairs of photons when exposed to certain colours of light. As a consequence of this “entanglement”, these photons possess unique correlations that can be exploited for both quantum communications and computation. The proposed project is concerned with the design of a fiber-based […]

Drug-impaired driving represents a significant and increasing threat to the safety of Canadians and there is an urgent need for a convenient, rapid and accurate road-side testing technology for impaired driving. Current solution for roadside drug testing only provides qualitative results, while quantitative detection of drugs currently requires expensive equipment, dedicated infrastructure and specialized laboratory […]

We are proposing a novel gender-inclusive approach with a focus on understanding barriers faced by women, Indigenous people, youth, and other underrepresented groups to increase recruitment, improve retention, expand and stabilize the construction and industrial workforces across Canada, and support employers. This proposal builds on our prior research on workplace factors associated with health professions’ […]

We aim to optimize advanced Computed Tomography (CT) imaging to provide non-invasive and accurate assessment of early lung fibrosis. Lung fibrosis causes inflammation and scarring of lung tissue and can be progressive, even fatal. Currently, detection of lung fibrosis relies on relatively insensitive tests, such as pulmonary function tests and static lung CT. Alternately, microscopic […]