Adults often struggle to learn new languages since their brains are not as plastic as those of children. The vagus nerve is the longest nerve in the human body, and its activity affects a variety of brain areas involved in attention, memory, and perception. By non-invasively stimulating the vagus nerve during language training, it may […]

Currently, call centres effort in this matter is largely reactive. Someone calls in, they are upset, and agents respond accordingly. However, this approach is not always most effective, especially with difficult customers. Therefore, knowing the customers current emotional state is very important for appropriate problem solving. Affective computing can be used to detect and evaluate […]

Car (automobile) insurance is a very common type of insurance: policyholders pay a premium to get financial compensation in case an accident happens with their cars. Insurance companies use complex calculations and a lot of information to determine the value of these premiums. More specifically, they must also consider their expectations of the future. Predicting […]

Les modèles de tarification actuels en assurance-automobile traitent les chapitres (responsabilité civile, collision responsable, bris de vitre, vol, etc.) comme étant complètement indépendants les uns des autres; la fréquence et le coût moyen des réclamations sont aussi généralement considérés comme indépendants! Notre objectif est d’explorer de nouveaux modèles de tarification qui tiennent compte du fait […]

Investment banking is behind the curve in terms of digital transformation, doubly so for mid-market investment banks. As COVID-19 now enforces digital communication more than ever, Alcedio needs to develop a sustainable client management system to prospect, build, and maintain client relationships. An effective CRM system could further enhance our capability to manage more deals […]

The chosen candidate will be working directly with Mr. Leslie, MECC’s principal, with respect to the various services MECC offers. They will help expedite the completion of MECC’s short-term and long-term objectives through a variety of responsibilities, and will have the opportunity to work in a fast paced and engaging environment. The candidate must conduct […]

Prediction of financial markets time series market direction is a challenging task mainly due to the unprecedented changes in economic trends and conditions in one hand and incomplete information on the other hand. Therefore, developing different forecasting, like LSTMs, have been employed by quantitative traders recently. Long Short Term Memory networks (LSTMs”) – are a […]

The Firefighter Problem is a deterministic, discrete-time model of the spread of a fire on the nodes of a graph. If a graph is a network where bank accounts are nodes, then an edge between two accounts is a transaction between one bank account and another. Imagine we have a suspicious bank account with suspicious […]

The partner organization is building a knowledge graph to integrate the knowledge in the SharePoint documents/pages of each domain, which will be used as the central information base to support various information retrieval tasks such as intelligent chatbots that can automatically identify relevant information. A critical element of the knowledge graph is a taxonomy of […]

In many applications, we need to find the right person with the required expertise (skills) for some task. To enable this, it is necessary to extract and organize the skills of different persons in a taxonomy. This project aims at developing a taxonomy of skills for the National Bank of Canada. Currently, a small taxonomy […]

Using simplified language understandable to a layperson; provide a general, one-paragraph description of the proposed research project to be undertaken by the intern(s) as well as the expected benefit to the partner organization. (100 – 150 words) This project aims to increase image datasets by not doing experiments or collecting physical checks. Instead, the image […]

This project is a study of the impacts of climate change on the economy of Alberta. The partner organization is a financial services company. They need information on climate risks to the largest and most climate-sensitive sectors, such as the oil and gas and agricultural industries. To assess these risks, the intern will collect information […]