Senior Appropriate & Culturally Sensitive Housing in Vancouver Chinatown

Chinatown’s community is diverse and while many seniors live in the neighborhood, there are many seniors who commute daily to spend the day in Chinatown. Censuses have shown that the senior population is rapidly increasing, thus providing a continuum of housing is a key factor to creating a resilient community. An initial study of housing […]

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Lex Start Plateform Inc. – Commercialisation d’une solution innovante SAAS sur le marché Canadien

Historiquement destinée à une clientèle B2C, Lex Start fournit des services d’incorporations, ainsi que tous les contrats corporatifs nécessaires à prix fixe pour les entrepreuneurs. La mission de Lex Start est de rendre le juridique accessible à tous. C’est pourquoi après plus de deux ans de recherche et développement, Lex Start se prépare à commercialiser […]

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Sentiment analysis on cryptocurrencies and stocks

The objective of this project is to create market sentiment indicators for cryptocurrencies. Market sentiment indicators are built from text analysis of exchanges on Twitter and other sources, that may include embedded or references images (e.g., price curves) and videos. The text dataset for cryptocurrencies may have a very structure from that of traditional currencies. […]

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La diversité bio-culturelle comme outil de lutte biologique en agriculture urbaine

L’étude porte sur les associations de plantes en agriculture urbaine au sein des plantes de la famille des Brassicacées, tels que le chou, le brocoli, la moutarde, la roquette, etc. Certaines plantes en compagnonnage aux cultures de la famille des Brassicacées ont des fonctions intéressantes pouvant l’imiter l’infestation d’insectes ravageurs. Les insectes ravageurs peuvent nuire […]

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Clarifying Questions for Conversational Agents

Many conversational agents blend the functionalities of question-answering and chit-chat into a single system. This lays the foundation for a more interactive type of question-answering models which is the primary focus of the research project. Interaction between a user and the agent allows the user to ask an underdefined or ambiguous question, and, instead of […]

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Communication-Efficient Federated Learning Systems

In distributed computing settings, data privacy is of paramount importance (e.g., mobile or medical devices). Federated Learning (FL) empowered the state-of-the-art deep neural network model to provide AI solutions to clients while keeping the client data private in distributed computing settings. Communication between different devices is one of the main bottlenecks of FL model because […]

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Development of a Business and Marketing Plan for the PTRC

With the announcement by the Government of Canada of increasing measures to reduce CO2 and other GHG emissions to Net-zero, the PTRC has begun to reposition itself as a world-leader in CCUS to help the country, and international partners, reach aggressive targets by 2030 and 2050 respectively. With the new realities of carbon pricing, taxes […]

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Valorisation des mégots de cigarettes

Fondée en 2020, Sumeco Solutions Inc est une start-up montréalaise ayant pour mission de trouver des alternativbes et des solutions à la crise environnementale au Québec. Sumeco Solutions a lancé le Projet Ciga qui a pour but de récupérarer et de transformer les mégots de cigarettes. Sumeco Solutions désire donner une seconde vie aux déchets […]

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Lab Assistant for R&D Drosophila Lab

Main Purpose: The main purpose of the internship is to assist with the development of research protocols for the fruit fly. Tasks / Key Results Expected: 1. Establish a biological laboratory – Equipment set up, qualification and record. 2. Establish optimized drosophila melanogaster growing environment conditions using agile project management methodology 3. Create novel experimental […]

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Retaining Diverse Employees at Technology Companies

The current research project aims to investigate internal communication among organizations in the IT industry and whether communication experiences are different among minorities and women in the organizations. A diverse workplace is important to facilitate an inclusive, productive, and healthy workplace. However, no study has looked at how communication to women and diverse employees may […]

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