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ESG Automation for Sustainable Enterprises (EASE)

ESGTree is an Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) data management platform for investors and corporations. Collecting, aggregating, and reporting ESG data is painstakingly inefficient for private capital investors. The ESGTree platform sets up individual client systems in a way that it will cater to all their investors and all the standards they need. The project ESG Automation for Sustainable Enterprises (EASE) will enable the ESGTree’s platform to advance automation in the ESG sphere as well introduce advance predictive tools in the market. This project will allow for easier data flow and delivery using integrations with salient data management system, enhanced carbon emissions analysis (especially for infrastructure based projects) and financial impact / cost reduction analysis as a results of ESG management. This will lead to improved customer experience and add to technology-focused ESG innovation for financial institutions globally.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Olaf Weber

Student:

Partner:

ESGTree

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Life cycle assessment of a direct air capture to renewable natural gas production platform

Global warming is a leading threat to humanity. Carbon capture, especially direct air capture (DAC), is the key to its reversal. The bottleneck of the DAC expansion is its high cost vs. the insufficient value of CO2. On the other hand, Atlantic Canada has unmet natural gas demand, especially after the termination of Sable and Deep Panuke gas production in 2018. Furthermore, to address the emission challenges, the Canadian Government has put forth an aspirational mandate to blend in 10% of renewable natural gas by 2030. To tackle these challenges, Gaia Refinery is developing a platform to employ a passive wind-assisted DAC system integrated with an RNG production platform utilizing direct methanation within microbial electrosynthesis cells to facilitate the economic output of pipeline grade RNG while removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Compare with traditional organic-based RNG, our system has fewer feedstock constraints, a higher output rate, and can eliminate the need for gas purification/upgrading. We are currently developing our demonstration unit. Expertise in life cycle assessment (LCA) will help us account for multiple environmental impact categories, particularly carbon footprint, over the entire life cycle of our products/services.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Baiyu Zhang

Student:

Partner:

Gaia Refinery

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Utilities

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Proposition d’un modèle d’évaluation de l’état numérique des organisations et du développement d’une feuille de route numérique en fonction des objectifs d’affaires

Ce projet vise à développer les outils nécessaires pour les conseilleurs des stratégies numériques afin d’aider les PME du Canada à garder leurs compétences dans le marché mondial. Ces outils aident à augmenter l’efficacité opérationnelle des entreprises manufacturière, augmenter leurs revenus et réduire leurs frustrations, par suite, augmenter la satisfaction des clients et favoriser un environnement d’excellence pour les employés. De même, ce projet va assister les PME à intégrer les technologies les plus récentes dans leur milieu manufacturier en offrant les pratiques nécessaires pour accomplir l’implémentation de ces technologies.
De plus, ce projet va supporter le partenaire (ARIV) à avoir leur propre outil d’évaluation numériques nécessaires pour les projets de d’audit et de consultation avec les PME.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michel Rioux

Student:

Partner:

ARIV inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

L’impact social des projets d’infrastructure : exploration des cas du Parc Solaire de l’Université de Sherbrooke et du corridor nordique canadien

Au Canada et ailleurs, les projets d’infrastructures tirent leur légitimité du fait qu’ils répondent à des besoins réels, c’est-à-dire qu’ils profitent concrètement aux citoyens. Depuis le lancement (en 2016) du plan à long terme Investir dans le Canada, 119 milliards de dollars ont en ce sens été investis dans 77000 projets allant “du transport en commun aux ports de commerce, des réseaux à large bande aux systèmes énergétiques, des services communautaires aux espaces culturels” (Infrastructure Canada). En dépit de l’importance qu’on confère à de tels projets sur le plan socio-économique, ou des services qu’ils rendent manifestement aux parties prenantes qui les promeuvent, un nombre sans cesse croissant d’entre eux suscitent la controverse : en raison d’impacts sociaux négatifs trop importants ou d’une faible valeur sociale perçue, de tels projets tendent à être présentés dans les médias comme souffrant d’un déficit d’acceptabilité sociale. Mais qu’est-ce que la valeur sociale d’un projet d’infrastructure? Comment se crée-t-elle? Dans ce contexte, cette recherche partenariale s’intéresse spécifiquement à l’impact des projets d’infrastructure dans une perspective de création de valeur sociale. Plus spécifiquement, celle-ci vise à développer une méthodologie permettant d’intégrer la valeur sociale tout au long du cycle de vie des projets d’infrastructure.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie-Luc Arpin

Student:

Partner:

KHEOPS

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services; Retail trade

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Deep Learning Based Approaches to Synthetic Data Generation

Synthetic population generation is the process of combining multiple socioeonomic and demographic datasets from various sources and at different granularity, and downscaling them to an individual level. Although it is a fundamental step for many data science tasks, an efficient and standard framework is absent. In this project, we propose a multi-stage framework called SynC (Synthetic Population via Gaussian Copula) that is novel and scalable to address this research problem. We aim to make both theoretical advances by developing new algorithms, as well as release easy-to-use implements for others addressing similar challenges.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Periklis Andritsos

Student:

Partner:

Arima Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Vaolo : Modélisation thématique à partir de sources hétérogènes

Vaolo est une plateforme technologique innovante dans le secteur du voyage, au croisement entre les plateformes transactionnelles, collaboratives et sociales. Vaolo est une entreprise d’innovation sociale qui vise à propulser le voyage de demain, un voyage éco responsable plus humain et respectueux de la planète et des communautés locales. Sa mission est de développer une plateforme transactionnelle collaborative, distribuée, et intelligente pour supporter, connecter, promouvoir et favoriser la croissance d’une offre d’expériences de voyage à impact positif propulsée par une communauté d’explorateurs, d’acteurs locaux et de voyageurs à la recherche d’expériences authentiques bâties à l’aide d’interactions humaines.
Par son positionnement particulier, la plateforme Vaolo est appelée à accumuler d’importantes quantités de données avec une croissance soutenue issues de nos différents acteurs : explorateurs, voyageurs, acteurs locaux, agences, partenaires de contenu et de commercialisation.
Un des enjeux principaux de Vaolo est d’offrir une expérience utilisateur personnalisée et de proposer le meilleur contenu possible aux bons utilisateurs. Pour ce faire, l’un des outils principaux de la plateforme Vaolo est son fil de contenu qui permet, un peu à la manière de Pinterest, de dérouler du contenu à volonté, tel un fil social.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christian Gagné;Luc Lamontagne

Student:

Partner:

Vaolo

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

“Treating waste with waste: the potential for aluminum industry waste (Bauxite Residue – “Red Mud”) as an environmentally sustainable remediation material”

Bauxite residue, known as “red mud,” is a major solid waste during alumina extraction from bauxite (alumina is further processed to produce aluminum). Red mud has attracted water treatment engineers due to its high adsorptive capability, and it has shown promise in remediating a wide range of industrial effluents. In this Mitacs Accelerate project, the interns will determine the adsorptive performance of modified bauxite residue (calcined) in removing major contaminants found in oil sands processed water. This project is in partnership with GRÖN Holding Inc. who has recently streamlined a process of treating highly alkaline red mud waste to a usable environmental remediation material. Overall, we believe that “treating waste with waste” is an efficient remediation option as it incorporates a sustainable approach for the simultaneous treatment of multiple waste streams.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maricor Arlos

Student:

Partner:

GRÖN Holding Corp.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Projet VERTECH II : Culture de microalgues dans des eaux usées et incorporation à une pâte cellulosique destinée à la fabrication de produits thermoformés

Projet de recherche sur la culture de microalgues dans des eaux usées d’un parc industriel sous une perspective d’économie circulaire où la biomasse de microalgues est récoltée pour ensuite être incorporer à un pâte cellulosique destinée à la fabrication de produits thermoformés pour une entreprise du même parc.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Simon Barnabé

Student:

Partner:

Corporation du développement durable;Sani Marc Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Biotechnology; Water

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Open MIDaaS – Mobile Identity as a Service

I will be working on open MIDaaS project. It stands for Mobile Identity as a Service. The project aims at making a mobile application the centre of user authentication. The app will be like a personal wallet which will store the list of attributes like verified email, address, and phone and credit card numbers. A merchant can request these attributes using push messages, QR code or other means. This will reduce the repetitive form filing and verification steps every time one goes to a new merchant site. I
will also create MIDaaS library and hub. The library will enable any merchant or organization to integrate with open MIDaaS. MIDaaS hub will provide two-way communication between different and anonymous devices. I will also provide integrity solutions for the app and library, to protect the code from hackers. The partner organization will benefit from my knowledge, interest, and prior experience in mobile application development and information technology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eugene Fiume

Student:

Partner:

SecureKey Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

A Novel System to Quantify the Risk of Exposure to Infection in Healthcare Settings Using Wearables

Hand hygiene is the most effective way to prevent infection transmission. This has been even more highlighted in current pandemic where with correct PPE and good HH, families were be able to visit and touch their loved ones. However, adequate HH actions are sometimes neglected due to high workload and time deficiency in healthcare settings. In addition, the measures used to calculate HH performance are not able to fully benefit from the high-resolution data collected by current Electronic Monitoring Systems. The main focus of this proposal is to improve the quality of care by estimating the risk of infection for each patient individually and gently prompting staff to perform hand hygiene when they forget to do so. Therefore, the HCWs will be encouraged to perform HH action and decrease this risk instead of using a negative disciplinary tone that emphasizes their compliance rate. The insights of the system can be used to propose new patient-centered infection control approaches.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Atena Roshan Fekr

Student:

Partner:

Hygienic Echo Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Clear vision in minimally invasive surgery

To assist Vope Medical achieve clear vision in surgery, Zishen will be working creating and enhancing a defogging algorithm in accordance with best practices in the relevant literature and optimizing it so it can be run in real-time to enhance contaminated surgical image feeds. Processes will be documented so they can used to track what has been developed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jochen Lang

Student:

Partner:

Vope Medical

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Technology

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

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 be different than majority groups. The objective of this study is to understand how communication may differ quantitatively (response time, word count, etc.) and qualitatively (content of the messages) between diverse employees and women compared to majority groups and males. Using proprietary technology to assess communication dynamics from thirty-to-fifty Canadian technology companies through the Vize Technology platform. The study aims to shed light on the unconscious bias that occurs in internal communications between traditional tech employees and women/BIPOC hires. The findings from the research will be used to inform organizations of implicit biases in their workforce for targeted training plans or interventions and subsequently increase the retention of women and diverse employees.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kevin Kelloway

Student:

Partner:

Ethical Digital;Vize Labs Inc.

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Saint Mary's University

Program:

Accelerate

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