Picton Mahoney Asset Management (“PMAM”) was founded in 2004 to provide unique investment solutions to institutional, retail and high net worth investors in Canada and around the world. They are 100% employee-owned and manage approximately $10.8 billion in sub-advisory, pension plan and hedge fund assets on behalf of their clients. The Quantitative Research and Risk […]

Picton Mahoney Asset Management (“PMAM”) was founded in 2004 to provide unique investment solutions to institutional, retail and high net worth investors in Canada and around the world. The Multi-Strategy Team at PMAM uses economic cycle models to determine asset allocation preferences across time during different macroeconomic regimes. We have recently incorporated an additional inflation […]

The project is about removing noise from video signals (for example, those taken by a mobile phones or professional cinema camera). Our current software first detects the type and power of the noise and based on that remove the noise from video. This proposal has three objectives. The first is to handle a specific type […]

The Fraser River estuary tidal marsh is declining, and loss of this key habitat has wide ecosystem implications, from supporting juvenile salmon to migrating shorebirds. The Sturgeon Bank Sediment Enhancement Project is attempting to reverse this trend. This project will assess the short-term effects of anthropogenic sediment additions through assessment of biogeochemical and microalgal indicators.

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At WorkSafeBC, an overwhelming amount of data is being produced, particularly in conversation logs between people who have an active claim with WorkSafeBC and various practitioners with whom they have regular contact (usually over the phone). These records are transcribed into text and the information is far beyond what any analyst could possibly read and […]

Desjardins Insurance is a subsidiary of Desjardins Group and provides a broad spectrum of insurance products and services. This includes life insurance, auto insurance, home insurance, and various other types of coverage. It’s known for its strong presence in the Canadian insurance market and its commitment to customer satisfaction. Our organization has been successful at […]

Machine Learning (ML)-based software quickly becomes complex due to being developed by multiple teams using different programming languages, with documentation stored in various locations. This complexity introduces communication and collaboration challenges, specially due to the fact that Co-operators Business Intelligence department manages over 1,150 assets, which includes ML models, APIs, databases, and more. The current […]

This Mitacs Globalink project, part of a PhD thesis titled “Exact and Heuristic Methods for the Quadratic Knapsack Problem (QKP),” aims to develop new optimization techniques for solving the QKP, a problem with significant applications in industries like logistics, finance, and electronics. Building on prior successes, including a dynamic programming heuristic and an algorithm using […]

Les incivilités au travail sont des comportements impolis ou irrespectueux qui sont très subtils et courants en milieu de travail. Un grand nombre de personnes ont vécu ce type de comportements au travail au cours de leur vie professionnelle. Environ la moitié des personnes disent que cela arrive chaque semaine au travail (Porath & Pearson, […]

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This project will involve the calculation of a global country risk measure for each of the 45 countries included in MSCI All Country World Index. Two alternative approaches will be used to develop our measures. The first is based on market segmentation and will use, for each country, the GICS industry group data consisting of […]