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The Influence of transport-related information on climate-friendly residential location choice

Climate change is a critical problem for society that is linked to all parts of our lives, and transport is one of the biggest sources. One major influence on transport emissions is where people live, as it affects vehicle ownership and distances driven. This project will examine how people consider transport when deciding where to live and whether providing estimates on transport emissions might be something people would want to know and how it might influence their choices. The project will examine whether different information is more useful in influencing more climate-friendly choices on where to live. The project partners, Futur Simple, will be able to use this information to help communicate with the public so that they move towards our climate emissions reduction target.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Owen Waygood

Student:

Partner:

Futur Simple

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Transportation (excluding aerospace)

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Improving the repeatability of pulse oximetry measurements in children to improve identification and management of sepsis in children in low-resource settings

Low oxygen levels in the blood can be used to identify children who are in need of emergency care. However, current tools for measuring blood oxygen do not always perform well when used by frontline health workers with limited training. This can lead to inaccurate measurements and delayed care for those who are the most vulnerable. This contributes to the high burden of child death in poorer countries. Here, we will use data collected from children at a hospital in sub-Saharan Africa to identify factors or strategies to improve the accuracy of data collected by frontline health workers in poorer countries.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Ansermino

Student:

Partner:

BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

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

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

AI-based shape generation and registration for dental restorations

This project aims to advance the development of a 3D shape generation software that uses generative adversarial networks to design dental crowns. A current prototype version of the software has been developed that allows generating dental restorations represented as point clouds. While currently generated shapes are coherent with the overall generation context of the crown, which includes nearby and opposing teeth, the current point cloud representation suffers from excessive noise and struggles to cope with partial dental arches comprising only a few teeth. This proposal aims to enhance the prototype generative capacity by replacing point clouds by meshes, by incorporating dental preparations as input to the generation pipeline and by improving segmentation of partial arches through improved 3D shape registration. A complementary goal of this project is to improve training and generation speed through the integration of transformers to replace the current convolutional approach used by the encoder.

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Faculty Supervisor:

François Guibault;Farida Cheriet;François Guibault;Vladimir Brailovski

Student:

Partner:

Object Research Systems;iMD Research

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Cross-cultural Governance of Okanagan Lake from a Systems Perspective

The research contributes to the k?usxnitk? (Okanagan Lake) Responsibility Planning Initiative (OKLRPI), a syilx Indigenous-led process coordinated by the Okanagan Nation Alliance, the Okanagan Collaborative Conservation Program, and regional and provincial authorities. The OKLRPI responds to the Okanagan Lake Foreshore Inventory and Mapping reports which documented large-scale losses in natural areas. In 2022, OKLRPI will prepare a first-ever syilx responsibility plan for official endorsement, which will support co-governance structures for addressing the institutional, multi-jurisdictional and cross-cultural complexity associated with the long-term viability of the Okanagan Lake ecosystem to provide clean drinking water, fish and wildlife habitat, erosion and flood control, and climate change resilience. This research analyzes co-governance models for implementing the syilx responsibility plan, based on an analysis of existing and proposed governance arrangements in the context of BC’s new Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aleksandra Dulic

Student:

Partner:

Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Influence of group health and prey sharing in the evolution of a killer whale social system

Off the coast of British Columbia, Resident Killer Whales are considered at-risk and increasing evidence points to a lack of food (salmon) as one of their main threats. Resident Killer Whales have a complex social structure, where family groups are stable, matriarchal, and form associations with other family groups. The family groups or “matrilines” forage for fish together, often sharing prey. Matrilines are made of varying ages and composition of males and females, with some family members acting as primary foragers and providing the majority of prey sharing between group members. We aim to understand how prey sharing under food limited conditions could influence formation of the stable family matrilines and association patterns seen in the Resident Killer Whale social system. In collaboration with Ocean Wise and Raincoast Conservation, this project will contribute to a long-term monitoring study of killer whale health in relation to prey fluctuations on our coast.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chris Darimont

Student:

Partner:

Ocean Wise

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Education; Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

eXplainable (XAI) and Accountable AI for Blockchain/NFT Event Ticketing marketplace

This project proposes an integration of explainable AI with NFT/Blockchain primarily for event organizers and ticketing systems. The purpose of this integration is to overcome the drawbacks of individual technologies and work in coherence for mutual benefits. The XAI based decision making supported by predictive maintenance and automation of event critical processes will enable event organizers to obtain an insight and make decisions based on sales forecasting, opinion mining and user activities. Interactive event platforms are facing challenges of preventing ticket forgery and scalping. To address the aforementioned issues, this project proposes an AI-blockchain integration compliant with GDPR for event ticketing and interactive platforms. We propose to use the blockchain technology to ensure the transparency of ticketing information and protect privacy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kin-Choong Yow

Student:

Partner:

Cya Live

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

Fine-Grain MPI

The demand for computing power has been rapidly growing over the last decade. The ability to efficiently utilize computing resources and improve the productivity of applications is necessary for the competitiveness of any industry and it will become more critical as the demand for computational resources increases. The computer hardware sector has seen rapid advances with the introduction of multicore and many-core processors and has introduced many challenges for the software development community to efficiently utilize the new architectures. My research is focused on developing systems and techniques that allow improved utilization of parallel machines. The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is extensively used for constructing parallel applications in distributed environments. Our work is related to development of systems for high performance computing through extending and enhancing the capabilities of the MPI middleware. We have developed a system called Fine-Grain MPI that allows execution of hundreds and thousands of MPI processes on-chip or communicating between chips inside a cluster. The potential benefits of our approach are for multicore as the number of cores increase.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alan Wagner

Student:

Partner:

Intel of Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

A Feasibility and Usability Study of Virtual Reality Assessment for Paramedic Occupational Competency (VAPOC) in Saskatchewan

This goal of the project is compare tools that can be used to evaluate the job performance of paramedics in a fair, equitable and consistent way whether they live in Saskatchewan or somewhere else in the world. Individuals who have completed their paramedic training will be evaluated using a common real life situation that they will experience when working as a paramedic in our province. The situation will be experienced in an artificial environment or through the use of a mannequin doll. The student interns will help in creating the realistic situation by assisting in the design of the artificial environment and through developing fair, equitable and consistent evaluation methods no matter if they are tested in an artificial world or real world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ramona Kyabaggu;Shauna Davies;Florence Luhanga;David Gerhard

Student:

Partner:

Saskatchewan College of Paramedics;Luxsonic Technologies

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Public administration

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

A sustainable electrochemical process for elimination of synthetic microfibers

Humans ingest over 50,0000 microplastic-particles every year. The main contributor to microplastic contamination is synthetic-fiber. One lo laundry load can release an average of 700,000 microplastic fibers. Wastewater treatment plants cannot catch all these microfibers, so they end in the oceans. New regulations, which require washing machine manufactures to implement microfiber filtration system are going to start on 2024. Viridis is a cleantech company addressing urgent global water pollution challenges from microplastics to harmful contaminants by eliminating them from water. VEOX electrochemical filters can be used both at scale in commercial washing machine markets, as well as in individual households for consumers within the homecare products market. With the support of MITACS, Viridis can accelerate the development, and commercialization of the first unit This project aims to solve different scientific question related to microfiber quantification, electrochemical degradation, and fluid-dynamic to allow the company accelerates the prototype design and future commercialization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Neil Branda

Student:

Partner:

Viridis Research

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Entomopathologie: biosécurité dans les élevages de ténébrion meunier

La demande globale en protéines animales devrait doubler d’ici 2050. Suite à la parution d’un rapport de la FAO (2013) vantant les mérites écologiques et nutritionnels des insectes comestibles par rapport aux viandes conventionnelles, les élevages de ténébrions meuniers, destinés tant à l’alimentation humaine qu’animale, sont en forte expansion au Québec. Les élevages d’insectes sont aux prises avec des problèmes d’élevage principalement liés aux pathogènes. C’est pourquoi les étudiants(es) impliqués dans ce projet auront comme objectifs de caractériser les différentes souches de ténébrion meunier et de déterminer l’efficacité de certaines méthodes permettant d’améliorer leur résistance aux pathogènes. L’IRBV souhaite ainsi appuyer de son expertise les recherches et les démarches innovantes dans cette nouvelle industrie pour une transition écologique réussie.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Colin Robert Favret

Student:

Partner:

Institut de recherche en biologie végétale

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Reducing homelessness using direct cash transfers (expansion project)

The goal of this project is to examine the effect of one-time unconditional direct cash-transfer to recently homeless individuals in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Building on promising results from our research team’s ground-breaking pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 50 cash recipients, the current project seeks to confirm this preliminary evidence using a larger RCT with 200 cash recipients. To evaluate the impact of the cash transfers over time, participants will complete surveys before receiving the cash, and 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after the cash transfer. At each timepoint, participants will report on outcomes related to housing, employment, subjective well-being, health, and cognitive function. The results will provide the most robust and comprehensive evidence of the impact of cash transfers as a tool to address poverty to date.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jiaying Zhao

Student:

Partner:

Foundations for Social Change

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Compressive Superresolution Projector

Research into so-called computational displays has shown that new and extended imaging modes can be made possible by augmenting novel optical design with computation. Examples include highdynamic range display via local LED backlights and multilayered autostereoscopic (glasses free 3D) displays. While there has been considerable progress in standard television form-factors, this line of research has only recently started to be explored for projectors. This project will examine the use of dual-modulated digital micromirror device (DMD) projector designs for the display of super-resolution content. Dual modulation refers to imaging one spatial modulator onto another in order to map each pixel of one modulator onto multiple pixels of the other. Spatial modulators may be LCD panels in standard displays or DMDs for projectors. The proposed design will be able to provide improved resolution to a variety of projection systems of the future, including digital cinema projectors, event setups, and home theater applications

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wolfgang Heidrich

Student:

Partner:

Christie Digital

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

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