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Verification & Security of Blockchain Oracle Network Effects on Smart Contracts

Bitcoin! Ethereum! Blockchain! In the past year, these words made headline news globally. The promise of blockchain, or decentralized ledger-based technologies, it has electrified the world and created an excitement for technology that was last seen in the 1990s when the internet was entering mainstream. The core premise of the technology is that blockchains are secured by cryptography and economic incentives, and that they are governed by decentralized consensus. As such, it is critical that they are based on robust and sound economic and technological principles that enable good governance and safe societal welfare. And although today they work well in environments with small numbers of enthusiasts, it remains unknown whether they work when applied at scale. This project plans to investigate the execution of programming software modules that are executed on blockchains to test their functional correctness and specification against real-life events that trigger blockchain actions. It also plans to build safeguards around the execution of those programs in a blockchain environment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andreas Veneris;Fan Long

Student:

Partner:

Bank of Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Manufacturing; Public administration

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Reliability and validity of Bodiometer’s Postural Assessment App

Human posture and its relation to health have been studied by researchers in the fields of health, kinesiology and biomechanics. There are some advanced postural screening technologies, but they can only be found in specialized clinics. Bodiometer has developed a non-invasive, user-friendly, and affordable postural screening technology for mobile devices. This project aims to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Bodiometer mobile app for 2D postural analysis. This study will be implemented in three phases. Based on the results of this study, people such as physical therapists, chiropractors, coaches and other health and fitness professionals will be able to examine the usefulness of Bodiometer in a practical setting for measuring posture. It is also expected to apply the result of this study for achieving one of the practical purposes of using Bodiometer, to determine the range of normal posture of people of different ages, physical characteristics, sports activities and occupations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Larry Katz;Reed Ferber

Student:

Partner:

Bodiometer

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Mechanistic Analysis of Cross-Coupling Reactions

Palladium-catalyzed cross coupling is one of the most powerful tools in modern synthetic chemistry, with is collaborative discovery recognised with the 2010 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. This class of reactions has had a huge impact on the way in which chemists think about building fine chemicals, because it allows for clipping of two molecules together to make a more elaborate one under mild reaction conditions. Despite its popularity in use, these catalysts have a mechanism and nature of the catalytically relevant species that is incompletely understood. We plan to combine our expertise to probe key mechanistic questions in palladium-catalyzed cross coupling reactions focusing on the catalyst activation process. This collaboration is aimed at building up a robust model of the chemistry and generate actionable recommendations for rational improvement of reaction protocols that identify areas for improvement, reduce catalyst consumption, and better utilize this precious earth resource.

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Faculty Supervisor:

J. Scott McIndoe

Student:

Partner:

University of York

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals; Sustainability & the Environment; Clean Technology

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Cooperative Primary Healthcare Data Sharing and Analytics NetworkInfrastructure

An increasing number of primary health care clinics have made the transition from paper-based record keeping to computer-based patient information systems, so-called electronic medical record (EMR) systems. One advantage of using EMRs is that data becomes more readily accessible for computerbased analytics in order to inform medical research and investigate compliance to clinical guidelines on evidence-based best practices. This vision of making primary care EMR data available for ncreasing quality of care and generating evidence for medical research requires a computer network infrastructure that allows connects all participating EMRs. Realizing such a computer network infrastructure poses significant research challenges with respect to informational privacy, security, and interoperability of heterogeneous EMR data models and system architectures. Objective of this project cluster is to address these challenges and develop software and system architecture in support of a computer network infrastructure for primary health care data sharing and analytics.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jens Weber

Student:

Partner:

Physicians Data Collective;Applied Information for Health Society;Osler Systems Management Inc;OSCARprn;OSCARwest EMR Services Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Texture et reconstruction et de surface à partir de point cloud non-structurés en utilisant des approches de champs vectoriel pour les puits miniers

L’objectif de ce projet est de développer une approche d’intégration de données provenant des nuages de points et des images dans le but d’obtenir un modèle 3D précis, complet et texturé. Le modèle 3D ainsi permet d’effectuer une inspection visuelle immersive à haute résolution et de procéder à des analyses structurelles précises assurant un suivi sur la stabilité générale du puits minier

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Faculty Supervisor:

Denis Laurendeau

Student:

Partner:

Point Laz

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

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

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