Since the internet boom, cybersecurity has become a major concern every year governments and tech companies are investing a lot to make sure they are not prey of cybersecurity issues. There are various types of threats that are related to cyber security such as: social engineering, malware, ransomware, cloud computing issues to name a few. […]

Digital commerce platforms these days collect trillions of data points of their customers and users, which are stored in database tables for a limited period. In Canada itself, there are 27 million eCommerce users that accounting to 75% of the Canadian population (International Trade Administration, 2022) Hackers constantly attempt to isolate and target vulnerabilities not […]

In an era where mass protests are happening with increasing frequency across the globe, there has been a growth in research interest on why people participate in social movements. However, consequences of social movements have received less attention (Louis, 2009). One especially understudied area is how attitudes towards language, a core aspect of group identity, […]

The use of fibre-reinforced polymer materials has been continuously increasing as an alternative to traditional materials, due to their superior durability (absence of corrosion), lightweight, low maintenance cost, and rapid installation. Adhesive bonding techniques for strengthening existing structures, such as near-surface mounted (NSM) and externally bonded reinforcement (EBR) are usually preferable. The long-term performance of […]

Journalists, when curating news, typically rely on enacting certain “voices” and frame content according to established norms. Using Claudia Mellado’s Journalistic Role Performance methodology — which has divided all journalistic roles into the following categories: the watchdog, citizen-watchdog, the loyal-facilitator, the interventionist-disseminator, the service, the infotainment and the civic roles — evaluate common journalistic roles […]

La théorie de la Rélativité General (RG) est la resposable pour décrir le mouvement des corps qui subit l’effet d’une force d’atraction gravitationnel, tel que la terre et la lune. En plus, elle est encore capable de décrire comme doivent être les mouvement des galaxies au ciel, et même de quel façon doit-il l’univers évoluer […]

The project is devoted to make encrypted control systems more practical and valuable to the industry and ensure the security of safety-critical industrial control systems. The research outcome is the development of a novel computationally efficient and secure MPC-based encrypted control system that is appealing to a wide range of safety-critical industrial sectors, including but […]

This project explores how an artistic oral history-based audio walk can be used as a tool for connecting locals, visitors and immigrants with a place and engage them as participants in public debates concerning local development projects in the Azores. Santana Airfield, Azores, is an abandoned complex risking demolition. Zoning laws are changing the landscape. […]

Text-to-image AI models for AI-generated art has recently gained extensive media coverage and has had a significant impact on Japanese art communities and Japanese digital content sites. I am particularly interested in investigating Japanese computer science and software engineering graduate students’ awareness of ethical issues embedded in the technology necessary to create AI-generated art. This […]

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for quadrupedal robot control has recently become tractable. In under an hour, serviceable control policies can be obtained in simulation. However, transferring reinforcement learning from simulation to the real world is still an arduous task. We propose a novel two-agent setup that leverages the good sides of both model-free and model-based […]

Comprised of a small chain of amino acids, therapeutic peptides are a unique class of drugs that have played a significant role in medicine since the discovery of insulin. Despite their importance in Pharma, the discovery of new peptides and the improvement of existing therapeutics remains a highly specialized domain and has not seen the […]

The objective of this project is the development of a novel control strategy for multi-agent robots. The objectives are energy saving and efficient robots movements and manoeuvres within clustered environments. To this end, the research intern (with the help of the host and home supervisor) will be in charge of developing a novel distributed control […]