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Evaluating self-efficacy and performance outcomes in an elementary school mentoring program

This project will evaluate an elementary school mentoring program, the Learning Buddies Network (LBN), which targets challenged students in reading and math, in terms of its outcomes in respect to the mentee’s self-efficacy beliefs and performance. The intern will consult with senior staff members of the LBN organization to identify improvements and extensions to the existing program evaluation tools and he will develop additional instruments to perform the evaluation. The outcomes of the project will include an assessment of the program outcomes during a three-month period of the mentoring program implementation, evaluation of the pairing procedures between mentors and mentees and suggestions on how these outcomes may be further improved in the future, regarding mentor training, type of mentoring (face to face or remote), and methods / strategies implemented. The resulted conclusions will be the basis for further evaluation of the program in the future, iterating additional expansions, improvements, and updates.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Nesbit

Student:

Partner:

Learning Buddies Network

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

1991 Soviet Coup Attempt – Part 2

The intern will investigate the 1991 Soviet coup attempt, a critical event in history when some powerful Soviet leaders tried to take control from then-President Mikhail Gorbachev. They will study why it happened, who was involved, and what the consequences were for the Soviet Union and the world. By analyzing historical documents, interviews, and other materials, the intern will gain a deeper understanding of the events and motivations behind the coup attempt. The expected outcomes of this research include: understanding the political context, the key players involved, the timeline of events, and the aftermath and consequences of the coup.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Seva Gunitsky

Student:

Partner:

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Information and Communications Technology; Other

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

1991 Soviet Coup Attempt – Part 1

The proposed research project aims to analyze the causes and consequences of the Soviet Coup attempt, including the political and economic factors that led to the coup, the role of the Soviet military and the KGB, and the impact of the coup on the collapse of the Soviet Union. The expected outcomes of the research project are to provide a comprehensive understanding of the events that led to the coup attempt, the factors that contributed to its failure, and the implications of the coup for the Soviet Union and the world. The research findings can contribute to the scholarly literature on Soviet history and politics and inform policymakers and the general public about the risks and challenges of political transitions and reforms.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Seva Gunitsky

Student:

Partner:

Lviv Polytechnic National University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Information and Communications Technology; Other

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Driver Behaviour Analysis Using Accelerometers on Android Devices

The objective of this project is to develop a software solution that can analyze the accelerometer data on android devices and report certain metrics of a moving vehicle related to road safety and driving conditions. The reports can then be used for immediate call for action in case of detecting an emergency or collecting the statistical data over a longer time period for assessing the general driving behavior. Advanced AI tools can be trained to immediately detect dangerous or harmful situations or patterns by monitoring the data on the device and reporting anomalies or sending alerts to the central control entity. In addition to data science skills, this project requires a good understanding of physics and dynamics of vehicles in driving conditions as well as a strong background in mobile device hardware and software engineering.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Arvind Gupta;Huaxiong Huang

Student:

Partner:

SOTI Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

CIUSSS-MTL : Apprentissage supervisé en radiologie du thorax

L’Intelligence Artificielle est utilisée dans le domaine médical afin d’offrir d’une part une aide à la décision à un personnel médical généralement surchargé et d’autre part une meilleure personnalisation des soins à partir des données relatives à une population.
Il est nécessaire de vérifier a posteriori, la bonne généralisation du modèle avec des ensembles de données dédiées à la validation et distinctes des ensembles de données utilisés pendant l’apprentissage.
Le projet de recherche est une preuve de concept dont les buts sont de valider :
1. L’utilisation des concepts de l’Intelligence Artificielle dans des applications médicales ;
2. L’utilisation d’une architecture de type CNN pour la détection automatique des anomalies dans des images radiologiques du thorax ;
3. La capacité d’augmenter le nombre de classes en utilisant le transfert de connaissances ;
4. Les résultats à partir d’une connaissance a priori des pathologies présentes dans l’ensemble de validation et de test (comparer ces résultats à ceux obtenus par le groupe ML de Stanford)
La validation du concept si elle parvient à être démontrée ouvrira la voie à un projet de développement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christian Gagné;Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal

Student:

Partner:

Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Data Communication Optimization between Mobile Devices and Servers

The proposed research project aims to improve the way data is transmitted between mobile devices and company servers. This will improve the speed and security of file transfers, data synchronization, application deployment, and distant management of mobile devices. The intern will collaborate with experts from the partner organization who will offer guidance and support in this research to identify new techniques that can be used to reduce the amount of data being transmitted, while also ensuring that the data is secure. The resulting improved communications layer will be integrated into the partner’s products, providing better service to their customers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eyal de Lara

Student:

Partner:

SOTI Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a distributed framework for deep learning models

Layer 6 powers the AI use cases for a variety of banking and financial applications at TD Bank. The goal of the research project is to improve the AI engine by having the training more efficient and distributed among a variety of clusters. The AI engine will allow models to be trained faster and with more optimal performance of the models. An improved AI engine can help deliver better machine learning models to over 25 million customers that rely on TD Bank for their financial decisions. As a whole, millions of Canadians who use TD Bank will benefit from their banking decisions being more accurate and up to date.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Scott Sanner

Student:

Partner:

Layer 6 AI

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Other; Finance and Insurance; Artificial Intelligence

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a system to transform audio and video feeds of medical consultations into structured notes and summaries

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dhanya Sridhar

Student:

Partner:

Dialogue Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Artificial Intelligence; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Edge-Cloud Video Streaming Pipeline for Video Action Recognition

Streaming Cameras have become ubiquitous in the urban and industrial landscape. This research project aims to improve the AI-based action recognition capability of consumer-class home camera streams, which often have limited bandwidth and degraded video quality. The project proposes to develop a network-aware, video-action recognition AI pipeline that pushes key operations of traditional action recognition pipelines to the edge and uses this in concert with a cloud-based infrastructure to provide high-precision recognition capability. The benefit to the partner organization, SAIC-Toronto and Samsung Electronics Canada, is advancing the state-of-the-art in action recognition in resource impoverished and dynamic environments, and sharing any newly gained knowledge, patents, and publications resulting from the research.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nandita Vijaykumar

Student:

Partner:

Samsung Electronics Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

ML for Action Detection in Movies for Haptic Effects Generation

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aaron Courville

Student:

Partner:

D-BOX Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Artificial Intelligence

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Deep Learning for drug molecule and target representations

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ioannis Mitliagkas

Student:

Partner:

Valence Discovery Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Emerging Event Classification System

The goal is to develop a system that can rapidly detect and report emerging disease outbreaks worldwide by analyzing clusters of news articles using Large Language Models. The objective is to create an efficient and effective way of identifying “disease
events” that can alert public health officials to take prompt action.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Annie Lee

Student:

Partner:

BlueDot Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

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