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Système de reconstruction 3D de modèles de villes virtuelles et segmentation sémantique pour l’extraction d’informations géospatiales

Le projet proposé vise à améliorer la reconstruction 3D des villes à partir des photographies aériennes et des données lidar, et plus particulièrement en combinant ces sources d’information. Des algorithmes d’intelligence artificielle, et plus particulièrement les réseaux de neurones convolutifs, seront utilisés pour améliorer la densité des nuages de points lidar pour la reconstruction 3D, et ils seront utilisés pour automatiser la segmentation sémantique 3D d’objets géospatiaux. Le produit final proposera des modèles 3D de villes virtuelles avec une qualité inégalée en réduisant les artefacts habituels (déformations de structures géométriques, pertes de qualité dans les zones ombragées, etc.), ainsi que des outils d’extraction et d’analyse d’objets 3D pour la compagnie Xeos Imagerie.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mickaël Germain;Yacine Bouroubi

Student:

Partner:

XEOS Imagerie

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Biophysical Characterization of Novel PARP Inhibitors

PARP inhibitors are an FDA-approved treatment for breast, ovarian and prostate cancers. This project
aims to develop 3 new classes of PARP inhibitors, 2 of which can target multiple pathways with a single
drug, helping to prevent resistance to the PARP inhibitors and enabling the combination of 2 drug
treatments without the added side effects that a sequential treatment would have. The other class of
PARP inhibitor can cross the blood-brain barrier, providing another treatment option for brain tumours.
Successful development of the 3 inhibitors will result in increased research and development
expenditures, and increased yearly revenue for Rakovina Therapeutics.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nada Lallous

Student:

Partner:

Rakovina Therapeutics Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Processus automatiques de contrôle de soi et motivation autonome

Pourquoi parvenons-nous à atteindre certains buts sans même avoir le sentiment de faire des efforts pour résister aux tentations dans notre environnement ? Ce projet de recherche vise à examiner l’association entre la motivation autonome (i.e., réaliser un comportement pour le plaisir ou l’importance) et le conflit motivationnel entre l’intention d’être actif physiquement et les tentations sédentaires. Nous prédisons que les individus avec une forte motivation autonome à l’égard de l’activité physique présentent des stratégies automatiques de contrôle de soi, leur permettant de résoudre des situations de conflit motivationnel sans réaliser d’efforts. L’étude vise à tester, de manière expérimentale (i.e., amorçage motivationnel), l’association entre la motivation autonome et une stratégie automatique de contrôle de soi (i.e., activation du but par une tentation), mesurée lors d’une tâche de temps de réaction. Ce projet ouvre à des perspectives novatrices pour promouvoir l’adoption de comportements de santé bénéfiques au bien-être mental des individus.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Luc Pelletier

Student:

Partner:

Université Grenoble Alpes

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Globalink Research Award

A System for Credit Risk Assessment to Match SMEs Financial Needs to Most Suitable Financial Option

More and more small and medium enterprises these days rely on continuous cash flow for the survival of their business. Current pandemic has made their survival with reduced business activities worse by relying on government support and brought down many businesses creating domino effect of joblessness and adverse economic impacts. The overall goal of this project is to match businesses needing financial support (loans) to appropriate financial institutions (lenders). To achieve this and make this decision seamless, we propose to develop a platform wherefrom an agent at Shaffer Capital will be able to analyze a clients need (through financial ratio and credit score computed based on their input data) and then an appropriate financial institution who would provide the finance to the client.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Parimala Thulasiraman;Ruppa K Thulasiram

Student:

Partner:

Shaffer Capital

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

In-plane Performance of Masonry Shear Walls

Recent research at the University of Calgary has focused on shear walls and on evaluating the influence of various parameters on in-plane shear capacity. The reason for this is that, for example, while it is recognized by most researchers that compression on walls increases the shear strength of masonry, the quantification of this effect has been reported to vary from 40 to 70% [1,8] and the factors adopted by various design standards range from 0.25 up to 0.4. Compression on walls is just one of many factors affecting the shear strength and failure mode of shear walls, but illustrates that balancing an understanding of the complex failure modes with the simplicity required for design codes is difficult. Therefore, the overall goal is to provide recommendations for the improvement of design guidelines for shear in masonry. In working toward this goal, the following have already been or are near completion: 1. Thorough review of the literature and existing design guidelines for on shear in masonry. 2. Development of a database of published in-plane shear and material property test data. 3. Preliminary analysis of the data for the effects of the common parameters in shear models.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shelley Lissel

Student:

Partner:

Canada Masonry Design Centre (ON)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Elevate

Nonlinear photonics applications of tellurite-coated silicon nitride waveguides

This project is about integrated photonics. Similar to integrated electronics, both have many applications in our lives such as in communications, biosensing, security, display and imaging. Interestingly, photonic circuits are poised to replace electronics circuits in telecommunications and data centers. Compared to electronics, they will reduce cost, increase speed and bandwidth of the future Internet coping with constant increasing demand that will not be met by the electronics-based systems. Particularly, this project’s goal is to bring bulky top of the table optical systems into a nanoscale integrated photonic chip. Using the novel tellurite glass, on-chip model locked lasers (MLL) and supercontinuum generation (SCG) will be explored. Mode locked laser is a high power pulsed laser that has interesting applications for example in distance measurements, material processing (e.g. micromaching) and laser surgery. Whereas, supercontinuum generation is widening of light spectrum with prospective applications in frequency measurements, fluorescence microscopy, bio-imaging and ultra-precise time keeping.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Bradley

Student:

Partner:

Technische Universität Hamburg

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Regional Quaternary Geology and Glacial History in the Iskut Area

Canada’s modern landscape has been strongly influenced by the formation and subsequent melting of glaciers during the last glaciation. Glaciers have a wide range of effects on near surface sediments including moving and reworking them to form new deposits. Understanding the actions of the glaciers and the shape, characteristics and variability of the resulting sediments is important to the work of scientists and engineers. This project focusses on using a combination of drill hole data, imagery taken from airplanes and surveys of the shape of the earth’s surface to piece together the story the history of glaciers in the area to the southeast of Iskut in Northern British Columbia. A map of the various sediments observed at surface will be produced. This work will help scientists and engineers with future projects in the area and add another small piece to the story of this history of glaciers in BC.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brent Ward

Student:

Partner:

BGC Engineering Inc (BC)

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

High Performing Canadian SaaS Company Metric Performance – What Great Looks Like

In this project, SaaSCan will leverage and expand its market research data on Canadian SaaS startup metric performance to create an innovative, online-self assessment tool. Unlike some other tools that require founders to upload detailed financial data or complete complex financial spreadsheets, the SaaSCan “Metrics Sherpa” tool will enable founders to type in data points and learn how they compare to their high performing peers on key SaaS metrics for startups. Given the broad reach of SaaSCan’s distribution network to 100’s of 1000’s of people, access to this online tool will democratize availability of performance metric assessments for minority and underrepresented Canadian SaaS founders from coast-to-coast, who may not have access to a network of experienced advisors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sandy Staples

Student:

Partner:

SaaSCan

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Establishing a world-class biophysics platform that will enable and accelerate the discovery of leads for launching drug-discovery programs and biotech start-ups

Challenge: The most critical step in discovering future medications is the identification of the initial hit compounds (“leads”) that interact with target proteins and which have the desired properties. The search for and validation of potential lead compounds is a major challenge for launching drug discovery programs as this process requires highly specialized expertise, expensive equipment and infrastructure, and vast chemical resources. Moreover, classical screening assays are often contaminated with false-positives and false-negatives, and available experimental techniques are notoriously unreliable at properly characterizing weak hits at the high concentrations required.
Solution: Here, we propose to develop cross-technology strategies that take advantage of a thorough exploration of the advantages and limitations of a broad range of biophysics tools to reveal typical and unusual natural phenomena of ligand and protein targets.
Expected Impact: This will build the foundation for establishing a world-class biophysics platform that will enable and accelerate the discovery of leads for launching new drug discovery programs and biotech start-ups. Moreover, this project will train multiple HQP that will contribute to and have a significant impact on Québec’s biotechnology industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steven LaPlante;Salim Timo Islam

Student:

Partner:

NMX Research and Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Accelerate

Investigation of solute interactions in multi-component steel using diffusion couples

There is an increasing demand for advanced high strength steels in the manufacturing and automotive industries. The use of these steels in cars can lead to weight reduction, improved fuel efficiency and enhanced crash worthiness. The development of these new steels requires the alloying of Fe with increasing amounts of manganese (Mn), silicon (Si) and aluminium (Al). As these elements are added in greater amounts, interactions between these elements become more likely to occur. The interaction of Si with Carbon (C) for example has been well-documented and Si content is carefully controlled to promote the development of steel microstructures that lead to high ductility. Much less understood is the interaction between Al and C in steel. Understanding this interaction is essential as industry attempt to increase the Al content in steel in order to reduce the density of the steel and enhance the strength. The proposed work will create model alloys in which the Al content is systematically varied. The diffusion of Al within these alloys will be studied using an electron probe micro-analyzer (EPMA) which is a device that can detect the distribution of Al at a fine scale within the steel.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hatem Zurob

Student:

Partner:

Université Grenoble Alpes

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Étude comparative de deux approches participatives implémentées dans deux établissements universitaires lors de la définition du projet

La définition du projet représente la première étape d’un projet architectural où les besoins des usagers sont définis et la solution architecturale est proposée. Elle représente une étape importante dans la création des espaces utiles et efficaces. Cependant, la définition du projet est une tâche difficile surtout lorsqu’il s’agit des projets complexes tels que les universités, car non seulement les besoins varient selon les différents usagers, mais encore ils évoluent constamment dû à l’évolution technologique. Afin de pallier à ces défis, différentes solutions participatives ont été proposées. Cette recherche vise donc, à comparer deux projets HEC Centre-ville et ÉTS campus-DOW qui implémentent deux approches participatives-non-traditionnelles afin d’aligner les besoins des usagers avec les espaces conçus pour leurs nouveaux pavillons. L’objectif de cette comparaison est de documenter les avantages et les enjeux ainsi que de proposer des pistes d’amélioration concernant la mise en place de ces deux types de démarche participative.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maude Brunet

Student:

Partner:

Groupe Solutions Systémiques

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Mapping bovine Tuberculosis dynamics in the South-African wildlife and livestock reservoir

In Sub-Saharan Africa, bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) is known to infect nearly all mammals, and is a threat to wildlife and livestock. However, the roles of biodiversity and host community composition on outbreak dynamics are still not clearly understood. Close contacts and the sharing of resources, such as food and water, are thought to be drivers of spillover and spill-back from the main reservoir host, buffalo (Syncerus caffer), to wildlife and livestock species. I propose to investigate the species contact networks and environmental reservoir of bTB in the Kruger National Park using camera traps and environmental DNA samples of water and soil. These data will be used to inform statistical models of disease spread, allowing us to quantify the effect of host community composition on bTB maintenance and outbreak potential in the Park. Understanding these dynamics will help in guiding policy on bTB prevention in spaces shared by livestock and wildlife.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Davies

Student:

Partner:

University of Johannesburg

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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