The PEACE + FREEDOM Project – Remote Areas Using Hydrogen for Energy Self-Reliance

Remote areas have the world’s highest death rates and cost of operations. As the global community struggles with shared problems including pandemics and climate change, connecting remote areas with the global community is becoming increasingly important. The current economic model of remote areas is dominated by reliance on oil, yet oil supplies are not reliable […]

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Discourse Representation Framework for Consumer NLP

With the ultimate goal of enhancing Nexxt Intelligence’s market research SaaS platform, inca, this project will create a flexible framework for facilitating conversations with consumers using an agent powered by natural language processing and deep learning models. This ‘discourse representation framework’ will be capable of engaging with consumers in fluent English, and is designed to […]

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Design simulation and optimization of energy harvesting in wastewater applications

The project is partnered with Aslan Renewables based in Prince Edward Island (PEI), the company focuses on the energy generation from the wastewater flows. This work aims at the analysis of energy harvesting from wastewater flow applications for open channel flows. The computation fluid dynamics (CFD) approach using ANSYS will be implemented for the analysis […]

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Mobilizing Adoption of Sustainable Solutions: Accelerating the Pace of Systemic Change through Transdisciplinary Collaboration

Humanity is dependent on a sustainable future yet fails to mobilize adoption of sustainability initiatives. If current trends continue, we may not meet the 2030 UN Sustainable Develop Goals until 2082– more than half a century late. Humanity’s insufficient response to the global lack of sustainability is a grand challenge driven by a moral imperative […]

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Effective process for deploying support services to underrepresented communities

Canada Technology Connection Inc. (CTC) is a biomedical engineering company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada that focuses on innovative health technologies in the field of 3D human body imaging. We invest in innovation, research and clinical science in complex 3D human modelling, imaging, and modern computer vision. Our goal is to research, test, validate and […]

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Développement d’un compilateur AOT pour Python

Le projet porte sur le développement de fonctionnalités d’un compilateur pour Python (un logiciel produisant des instructions machine pour le langage de programmation Python). Le développement de ces fonctionnalités augmentera la compatibilité du compilateur avec la syntaxe de Python et permettra d’obtenir des gains de performance. Ces deux points faciliteront l’adoption de cette technologie par […]

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Summer Associate

Penrose Partners is a blockchain startup firm that provides transactional, educational, and corporate consulting/material production services to businesses, institutional investors, and disruptive tech companies in the blockchain space. We are the trusted advisor that bridges the gap between businesses with great ideas, and blockchain adoption. In June 2021, Penrose Partners launched the i3 Incubator program […]

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Synthetic Data Case Studies

Replica Analytics provides technology for generating synthetic data. This data is generated from real data. Although it shares statistical properties with real data, it is not real data. Replica Synthesis is Replica Analytics’ flagship product that generates synthetic data. The intern will carry out a case study by identifying real data to generate synthetic data, […]

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Taal Innovation Advisors Summer Internship

Taal Innovation Advisors Inc. (“Taal”) is an innovation firm focused on business, and technical consulting, and go-to-market execution for SME sized innovative businesses. Its clients primarily include small startups that have or are receiving their first few rounds of funding and looking to enter the market. Taal currently has experienced professionals that work and operate […]

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Stage en exploration minière 2022

Ce projet cherche à donner des expériences de stage appliqué dans le domaine de l’exploration minière à des étudiants au niveau maîtrise. Ces stages seront accueillis par des compagnies minières à la recherche d’augmenter leurs ressources minérales sur leurs projets matures ou qui veulent évaluer le potentiel de leurs propriétés sur des projets d’exploration naissants. […]

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Machine learning enhancements for lunar exploration

The industrial partner, Mission Control Space Services (MCSS), is a participant in an upcoming mission to launch a rover to the moon. In this project, Western students will assist MCSS by developing algorithms using techniques from deep learning to support the lunar mission. The interns will have two primary responsibilities. One intern will develop a […]

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Data Drift Detection and Monitoring

When a previously trained machine learning model is put into production, the production phase begins where said model makes predictions on the inputs provided to it. When the distribution of production data changes over time, we talk about data drift. Then the model is likely to become less efficient, or even obsolete. The project consists […]

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