The project focuses on conducting macro research on the agtech and early stage technology sectors in North America and abroad with the goal of providing private venture capital investment to fund Canadian technology innovation as well as agtech and agribusiness innovation.

Ce projet vise le développement d’une méthode d’évaluation des facteurs environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance (ou facteurs ESG) adaptée aux municipalités canadiennes sans notation de crédit dans le but de soutenir l’investissement responsable d’AlphaFixe Capital. Les activités envisagées comprennent l’élaboration d’une méthodologie adaptée aux spécificités locales, son essai et l’automatisation de la collecte de données […]

Analysis of customer service call transcripts can be challenging due to high volumes of unstructured textual data. To overcome this challenge, Co-operators Insurance Group seeks to explores the application of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT3 in analyzing call transcripts to extract structured data to be used in further modelling. Specifically, the project aims […]

Westland Insurance has grown into one of Canada’s largest independently owned insurance distribution businesses. Our head office is located in Surrey, British Columbia, and we have over 190 locations across Canada. This internship project will involve identifying the best local and national practices around customer experience and relationships, financial analysis, employee learning management and technical […]

In traditional claim processing system, adjusters or claim handling specialists need to read massively number of medical reports like diagnosis report, medical assessment, prescription daily for different types of decision making. Such a manual review process is time-consuming and tiring, which causes slowness in serving claimants and consequently unpleasant customer experience. In the digitalization era, […]

Current financial models do an inadequate job of capturing the nuances of actual market movements and often exclude the characteristics that would differentiate the resulting data from randomly generated data. The project will identify the key market characteristics that encompass actual market movements by extending current pricing models to encompass those characteristics that are deemed […]

Intact Financial Corporation is Canada’s largest provider of property and casualty insurance by annual premiums. Intact aims to offer expedited claims service to its customers. When opening a claim, Intact already asks its customers to provide images of the vehicle that allow prior identification of the general condition of the vehicle. The intern will have […]

Traditionally, the Heston model has been calibrated using a combination of least squares, options inference and gradient methods. However, a new calibration technique has recently been developed based on the explicit solution and stochastic calculus techniques. This new method could greatly simplify and improve the accuracy of the process. The explicit price solution and the […]

Exotic derivatives of various kinds contribute significantly to the risk exposure that must be managed by banks. In order to be competitive, banks need to assess their risk exposure frequently, and make necessary adjustments to their positions. Assessing risk exposure involves computing valuations of all the assets in their investment portfolio, along with their sensitivities. […]

This research tackles the problem of correcting errors produced by automatic speech recognition systems when transcribing calls by customers to call centers. These transcripts are increasingly analyzed using automated natural language processing tools, however the quality of this analysis is highly dependent on the quality of the transcription. An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is […]

Bitcoin! Ethereum! Cryptocurrency! Blockchain! In the past years, these words made headline news globally. The promise of blockchain, or decentralized ledger-based technologies, has electrified the world and created an excitement for technology that was last seen in the 1990s when the internet was entering mainstream. The core premise of the technology is that blockchains are […]

Un client est soumis à plusieurs facteurs (notoriété de la marque, marketing numérique et marketing relationnel) simultanément. Dans ce projet de recherche, on vise de préciser l’apport de chacun de ces points de contacts, de la détention actuelle de produit au sein de l’entreprise ainsi que l’importance des différents types de canaux sur une vente […]