The objective of my research is to generate self-assembled artificial skin and humanized mouse model for study of various skin diseases. The artificial skin is made using human derived skin cells, which are then grafted to mice. This humanized mouse model is most similar to the environment in the human body, and the self-assembled artificial […]

My MASc thesis involves the assessment of water management options proposed for two mine projects in Peru, with the overarching objective of identifying whether water and energy impacts are being considered and accounted for in a coupled manner during the selection of the mine’s water management strategy. In addition, an early attempt to benchmark the […]

Unconventional hydrocarbon require novel technologies to improve the recovery factor of the vast reserves in North America. An alternative to increase the reserves is enhanced oil recovery (EOR). EOR is a technique that reduce capillary effects and/or improve the mobility ratio by the injection of materials not normally present in the reservoir. This summer research […]

The Eastern Highlands Shear Zone (EHSZ) is a zone of highly strained rocks located in the Cape Breton Island portion (Nova Scotia, Canada) of the Appalachian mountain belt. It is interpreted to separate rock packages of different ages and affinities. Recent field mapping of the EHSZ (this study) has identified deformation fabrics that are diagnostic […]

Lianas are an important group of structural parasitic plants found in tropical forests across the globe. These parasitic plants use the trees to climb into the canopy, which they then come to dominate and overtake. The occupation of lianas in the canopy results in multiple negative effects for tree fecundity, survival, and carbon sequestration capabilities. […]

Three out of five Canadians with dementia wander, raising concern as to how it can be managed. Current information describing best practices to find missing persons living with dementia however, is inconsistent and can cause police difficulty in choosing search and rescue strategies for this population. The purpose of this project is to develop and […]

Iterative learning control (ILC) is an approach to improve the performance of a system that carries out the same operation repeatedly. It stores error and control output throughout every iteration, and incorporates the stored information into generating new control output. In a cavity resonator, a standing wave electromagnetic field is formed to accelerate charged particles […]

The lack of robust sound awareness in robotics and autonomous machines is a crucial limiting factor in their usefulness and adoption. Taking a biologically inspired approach offers novel computational mechanisms to solve a variety of challenges in this field. The primary objective of this proposal is to finalize and evaluate a Bayesian auditory artificial intelligence […]

Le Canada est un leader international en trampoline depuis plusieurs olympiades. Afin de maintenir ces performances, il convient d’innover dans les techniques des saltos vrillés. En collaboration avec l’INS Québec, nous allons créer, pour des trampolinistes, une variété de techniques optimales de vrilles aériennes au moyen de simulation informatique. Le défi est de développer 1) […]

The student’s PhD research focuses on the relationship between the dairy policy and dairy cooperatives in Germany in the context of agricultural industrialization and globalization. Traditionally, dairy cooperatives and producers were regarded as “sitting in the same boat” because dairy cooperatives are owned by producers and help producers collectively bargain to gain a fair price […]

Plasma is a gas of charged particles which is the most common state of the matter in the visible universe. It is also widely used in laboratory and industry for numerous practical applications such as plasma processing devices, spacecraft thrusters, and future fusion reactors. Therefore physics of plasmas addresses a number of fundamental problems such […]

Adenosine is a naturally occurring molecule that is found in many living systems that can be used as to slow rapid heartbeat and other ailments. Its efficient use as a medication depends on adenosine receptors present on many tissues within the human body. This family of receptors consist of four subtypes with the A1AR subtype […]