Old growth forests provide important ecological services including carbon storage and habitats for a diverse array of species, yet they are often rare across the landscape. These forests are often challenging to identify due to the lack of concrete definitions of what constitutes old growth, as well as the lack of understanding of the typical […]

The student will develop a recommendation system for restaurants, proposing food selections to customers. This system will be based on GNN models to predict a customer’s need based on both user and order data. The data include previous purchases, data of dishes and similarity of users collected from online food orders. In the first phase […]

The research question at the centre of this project is, “how can culture planning integrate equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)?”. The project will focus on ethno-cultural dimensions of EDI in culture planning. The project aims to explore how different ethno-cultural communities are engaged in the culture planning process and how culture planning outcomes impact these […]

Dopamine and noradrenaline are neurotransmitters that are released from neurons located in the substantia nigra and locus coeruleus. Therefore, these brain structures have the unique property of containing high concentrations of neuromelanin, a dark pigment that can be visualized with specialized MRI sequences. The neuromelanin-sensitive MRI signal has been used to visualize degeneration of these […]

Crowds are everywhere and studying them is important for urban planning, transportation, evacuation, and safety at large public events. Simulation modelling lets us study crowd behaviour by simulating large numbers of individual pedestrians and seeing how they behave as a crowd in different, sometimes dangerous scenarios. Simulation allows us to study situations that would be […]

The objective of this project is to estimate grizzly bear abundance and distribution in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut by combining Inuit traditional knowledge about grizzly bears with genetic data already collected by the Government of Nunavut. Working with the communities of Arviat and Baker Lake, we will use both pre-existing interview recordings and new […]

In today’s world, organizations protect themselves and their customer’s data through the implementation of complex cybersecurity solutions composed of many different nodes, each generating constant streams of data. Building reports from this data through the calculation of various metrics can provide much needed visibility into the state of the environment. However, building such reports can […]

Malicious websites in general, and phishing websites in particular, attempt to mimic legitimate websites to trick users into trusting them. The goal of the project is to develop algorithms for detecting these malicious websites in two contexts: • detecting if a site visited by a user is a malicious site • detecting malicious sites that […]

Drowsiness is considered the foremost cause of accidents in the mining industry. Studies estimate that up to 65% of annual accidents in mines are related to drowsiness. The total loss to the company’s assets is around $22.6 billion and operator lives are not replaceable. The lack of real-time drowsiness monitoring and prognosis in the mining […]

Le stagiaire entreprendra la tâche d’améliorer la robustesse des systèmes de dialogue de la Banque nationale. Afin qu’un système de dialogue soit apprécié par les utilisateurs, il est primordial que cette technologie réponde de façon appropriée à une question. Une erreur propagera de la fausse information et diminuera la crédibilité de l’organisation, deux graves problèmes. […]

Interns will participate in forest growth and yield (G&Y) research projects. G&Y studies are used to assess the impacts of forest management practices and to set harvest levels to safeguard sustainability. Conducting G&Y studies is a foundational skill provided by contractors or undertaken directly by forest companies or regulators who require the information. This work […]

Hydro-Québec has data acquisition systems for a multitude of sensors, some of which have been installed since almost 20 years in its electrical generation equipment (turbine-generator units – TGU). The collected data is primarily used to ensure that the information is adequate in the event of an equipment breakdown or for specific behavioral studies. Data […]