Human-induced warming of the planet amounts to ~1C since pre-industrial times, with a warming signal that increases with latitudes. This warming is accompanied with higher incidence of extreme weather (e.g. temperature, precipitation), including persistence of weather systems and consequently increased probability of drought and flooding. The goal of this project is to document projected changes […]

In light of an urgent ecological demand for attentiveness to the non-human; outcomes. this proposal stresses the importance of the literary medium in addressing eco-critical questions. In essence, this project explores the interdependency of human and non-human entities through literary-material desires: collecting, hoarding, and discarding. My research thus asks how we can read literature under […]

Génération et criblage d’une banque synthétique de lipocalins

Ce projet de recherche a comme objectifs de formuler et de fabriquer des matériaux bitumineux pour la réparation des chaussées asphaltées qui ont une empreinte environnementale la plus faible possible. Pour ce faire, les stagiaires étudieront la possibilité d’ajouter des bardeaux d’asphalte recyclés de même que des enrobés bitumineux recyclés aux produits qui serviront au […]

The Social Innovation Academy will be working with a network of Mitacs interns to develop national-scale backend infrastructure resources for advisory and consulting firms across Canada. These resources may include (but are not limited to): initiatives for advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion; impact measurement frameworks; providing pro bono support. In addition, interns will provide marketing, […]

Les rejets des industries de transformation laitiere sont caracterises par leur charge polluante elevee due a leur richesse en lactose et en mineraux. L’expansion des activites industrielles se heurte a des exigences environnementales de plus en plus strictes en termes de normes de rejet. Les solutions presentement adoptees par les transformateurs laitiers sont peu ou […]

Fogging and icing of surfaces is an issue that abords applications as diverse as the medical, the automotive, or the photovoltaic field. Even, it can represent a risk when present lenses and windshields, it dangerously reduces the field of view for the user. To address this problem, surface treatments based on coatings and chemical modifications […]

Fraudsters and money launderers have no place in today’s digital economy. To protect against fraud and financial crime, businesses online need to know and trust that their customers are who they claim to be – and that these customers continue to be trustworthy. Jumio uses the power of AI, biometrics, machine learning and certified liveness […]

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in many visual recognition tasks. However, existing state of the art deep neural network models are computationally expensive and memory intensive, hindering their deployment in devices with low memory resources or in applications with strict latency requirements. Therefore, a natural thought is to perform model compression and […]

Remote areas have the world’s highest death rates and cost of operations. As the global community struggles with shared problems including pandemics and climate change, connecting remote areas with the global community is becoming increasingly important. The current economic model of remote areas is dominated by reliance on oil, yet oil supplies are not reliable […]

Ce projet porte sur l’optimisation d’un procédé de pyrolyse de déchets plastiques permettant de produire du carburant Diesel. L’originalité du programme réside dans l’utilisation d’une unité de production en lot ne nécessitant pas de tour à distiller ce qui constitue une première mondiale. Des études paramétriques seront réalisées pour définir des conditions opératoires permettant de […]

Performance Plants Inc. (PPI) is a Canadian, privately owned and internationally recognized agricultural biotechnology developer with a series of powerful, validated ‘game-changing’ technologies that are applied to major staple crops for significant improvement of their productivity. As the realities of climate change become more and more evident, and growing populations demand more food, humanity faces […]