Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death in the world. One person dies in Canada every five minutes from heart conditions, stroke, or vascular cognitive impairment. There have been 2.6 million CVD-related hospitalizations in Canada between 2007 and 2017. CVDs alone cost totaling $21.2 billion a year in direct (medical) and indirect (lost […]

Teeth loss significantly impacts the quality of life of over 700 million individuals and is commonly addressed with implant-supported prostheses. Dental implants face biological and microbiological challenges, leading to potential infectious diseases and implant loss. Proteins from blood and saliva adhere to implant surfaces, influencing subsequent biological interactions crucial for implant success. These proteins quality […]

Many real-world applications can be modeled as nonconvex optimization problems, such as the phase retrieval problem in medical imaging and matrix factorization problems in data analysis, just to name a few. Proximal-type algorithms serve as ideal candidates to resolve these nonconvex problems. Nevertheless, their convergence analysis remains challenging due to the lack of favorable properties […]

Wearable devices are a promising technology for collecting and analyzing physiological and environmental data for various applications, including healthcare, sports and fitness, and occupational health and safety. In some settings, these wearable devices can also be integrated with actuation capabilities to interact with users. The proposed research project focuses on applying wearable technologies to thermal […]

This project is an undertaking in coordination with Minerva Canada, some of its industry partners and seven Canadian universities which aims to address a gap between industry and the graduates of engineering programs in terms of attitudes, knowledge and applied skills pertaining to health & safety in engineering practice. Upon completion, the project’s end product […]

The resistance of bacteria to antibiotics is a growing problem that we need to address, for example, through the development of alternative treatments. Bacteriophages, or phages, the viruses of bacteria, have been proposed as a potential avenue for the treatment of recurring bacterial infections or against multi-resistant bacteria. Even more promising, are proteins encoded by […]

Le projet Épistorm consiste à développer un capteur optique pour détecter des concentrations de micro-ARNs de l’ordre du femtomolaire alors que la sensibilité classique du système utilisé est de l’ordre du nanomolaire. Pour gagner ces cinq ordres de grandeur, nous visons à combiner deux méthodes d’amplification du signal : volumique et surfacique. La doctorante du […]

L’un des défis les plus actuels des agents d’apprentissages autonomes (ou I.A.) appliqués aux outils médicaux est la capacité de les appliquer pour des systèmes embarqués sur appareils de petite taille, portables ou même directement embarqués dans le corps humain. En interface neuronales, le développement de compagnies comme Neuralink consiste principalement dans la miniaturisation de […]

The quantum internet is predicted to have a substantial impact on our modern society, enabling the transfer of information through networks (so-called quantum networks) with unprecedented security compared to our current, classical protocols. Although small-scale, proof-of-principle quantum network experiments using photons (quanta of light) have already shown great promise, the scaling of these experiments into […]

The gut microbiome plays a highly important role in metabolic health of animals, as has been demonstrated by several studies in the last decade. It encodes a series of enzymes and produces compounds which are not available in human cells, that play a role in functions as important as the breaking down of complex food […]

As atmospheric CO2 levels rapidly increase due to industrialization, electrocatalytic reduction technology using renewable energy to convert CO2 (CO2RR) into valuable multi-carbon products such as ethylene, ethanol, and propanol is in the spotlight. Copper is the only metal that can form these C2+ products due to its unique properties. Despite many studies, morphological and chemical […]

Cells cultured on planar surfaces adopt a variety of morphological shapes. Despite their seeming randomness, such morphology is determined by a biophysical process that represents the sum of multiple cellular processes. Cell morphology is dynamic, and cells change their shape with time and across different time scales, e.g. with local modification of the environment, or […]