One of the major challenges facing the 21st century is the antibacterial fight. Traditional methods such as antibiotics are ineffective in many cases of chronic infections or food contaminations. One of the reasons for this phenomenon is the formation of biofilms where bacteria are protected from the environment by a protective barrier made of polymers. […]

Lors de la déconfessionnalisation du système scolaire québécois au tournant des années 2000, l’Église catholique s’est investie dans le développement de nouveaux parcours de formation chrétienne. Toutefois, les transformations de plus en plus radicales du rapport socioreligieux des Québécois à la religion catholique convoquent de nouveau l’Église à modifier en profondeur ses dispositifs de formation […]

Small surgical instruments can be used multiple times if cleaned properly after each surgery. At the end of the cleaning process, a visual inspection of each instrument is performed in order to detect any traces of soil such as blood, tissue or any other biological materials. However, the human eye is not a flawless sensor […]

Automatic casting applications aim is to accurately recognise facial regions that correspond to a same actor appearing in a movie to produce described video. This project will focus on the tasks of re-identify the face of each principal actors when they appear in different scenes of a movie. This is a challenging task because although […]

This project aims at creating a robust, efficient and reliable tool for Named Entities Recognition (NER) from vast amounts of textual data related to the customer service. Named entities recognition, a subtask of information extraction, seeks to locate and classify elements in text into pre-defined categories such as the names of persons, organizations, locations, expressions […]

Ranger Design is a manufacturer of van storage units and accessories. Since order picking activities are considered to be an integral part of its warehouse operations and perceived to be conducive to significant improvements, re-engineering and optimization of the order picking process are in order. As such, the company is looking for an opportunity to […]

Les infrastructures en béton armé (ponts, routes, ports, canaux de navigation) ont un impact majeur sur la société. Les bénéfices économiques reliés à l’utilisation de ces infrastructures sont considérables, cependant ils sont contrebalancés par les coûts directs des travaux de remplacement ou de réhabilitations récurrentes. Le projet Développement d’éléments préfabriqués et de réparations pour les […]

OSSimTech develops and sells virtual reality (VR) surgical simulators. This proposal aims to improve the efficiency of the simulation of cutting and deforming organs. The current simulator used by the company is appropriate for a range of surgery scenarios, but for several scenarios, it is too long to compute. The company has plans to expand […]

Identifying fungal effector proteins and understanding their function is of great importance in efforts to control losses to plant diseases. Modern high-throughput sequencing technologies have facilitated the availability of several fungal genomes and 1000s of transcriptomes. There is minimal consensus over the annotation and functionality of effector proteins. With the characterization of avirulence (Avr) genes, […]

Les activités de recherche prévues au cours de mon séjour à l’University of South Australia consistent à développer un spectromètre à peignes de fréquences dans l’infrarouge moyen intégré sur une puce optique. Un spectromètre dont la plage spectrale d’opération s’étend jusqu’à 3-5 µm permet la mesure de spectres d’absorption de gaz. Bon nombre de molécules […]

The present project will evaluate the techno-economic and environmental performance of an Integrated Biorefinery System that employs an innovative state-of-art fast pyrolysis processes for the production of bio renewable fuels in the bio-economy. A systematic design methodology will be defined using state-of-the-art process systems engineering tools which include market analysis, techno-economic assessment, cost accounting, energy […]

The present project will evaluate the techno-economic and environmental performance of an Integrated Biorefinery System that employs an innovative state-of-art fast pyrolysis processes for the production of bio renewable fuels in the bio-economy. A systematic design methodology will be defined using state-of-the-art process systems engineering tools which include market analysis, techno-economic assessment, cost accounting, energy […]