Virtual agents based on artificial intelligence have become increasingly popular on social media. Examples of Lil Miquela or Shudu Gram show how completely artificial agents can have a significant influence on our social lives, and especially social media marketing. However, it stands to question how these virtual influencers are actually perceived by consumers, whether they […]

Existing data lake systems lack the support for storing or discovery features that could be used with different ML projects. These limitations negatively affect the process of decision-taking. Data scientists spend most of their time finding, preparing, and integrating relevant data sets to finish analytics tasks. Feature discovery systems are needed to ease the process […]

Ce projet MITACS consiste en l’amélioration de l’expérience utilisateur (innovation de produit et de procédé) en offrant de nouveaux outils ou fonctionnalités et en améliorant ceux déjà présents sur notre plateforme. Pour créer l’outil sur notre plateforme, les étudiants feront face à des enjeux de communication avec les API des partenaires, et avec l’équipe. Ils […]

This research seeks to inform the development of, and fully test and develop a mobile application designed to improve the process in which students’ find accommodation and roommates. I will develop wireframes and ask users to provide feedback on how to improve the platform. Then I will take the information collected to develop a prototype […]

Ce projet de recherche concerne le philosophe Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) et les indications qu’il fournit dans son oeuvre pour traiter, ou du moins apaiser, les soi-disant « maladies de l’âme ». Par une interprétation symbolique de ses écrits, nous porterons notre attention sur les éléments à caractère curatif, afin de trouver compréhension et outils […]

Collaborative filtering is a product recommendation technique for making automated product suggestions to a user based on the preference information from similar users. Traditional recommendation algorithms drive personalized recommendations using the data from user purchases and ratings. For e-book retailers, besides user purchases and ratings, product features such as book content and metadata also provide […]

Personal analytics refers to a recent trend where individuals wish to collect, analyze and visualize personal information so that they can gain knowledge about one’s behaviours, habits and thoughts in the context of their personal goals. The trend of self-tracking is rapidly increasing as people are becoming smarter about choices available to them, and seek […]

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 […]

Today, a growing number of mobile devices come enabled with Near Field Communications (NFC) “out-of-the-box.” This has opened the door to an explosion of new possibilities for smartphones, such as those running on the Andriod platform. These new NFC capable Android devices could potentially replace RFID technologies, which are widely used in a variety of […]

In the process of issuing building permit, urban planners need to check the compliance of proposed development with all required rules, policies, and land-use regulations (e.g., 2D and 3D) of the city mostly by using 2D graphical representations. In this internship, we will assess the value added of having 3D digital representation of land-use regulation […]

As more and more people record their lives and actions in Social Media, it has become an invaluable resource for the study of society’s opinions and sentiment. From individual life events (e.g., someone’s purchase of a digital camera) to collective events of major societal impact (e.g., the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic), social media has […]

Heartland Disposal & Recycling is a waste disposal & recycling business offering waste disposal bins, portable toilets, and temporary fencing to residential, commercial, and industrial companies. Heartland also provides ongoing accounting and financial reporting services to Hape International Inc., which is a multi-national toy manufacturing business. Hape International Inc. has approximately $25 million in annual […]