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Fraud Detection in Derivatives Market using Deep Unsupervised Anomaly Detection and NLP

In the last few years, a high increase in the interest of traders and investors towards financial instruments directly led to an important augmentation of the information received daily by exchanges. Exchange regulators, who constantly monitor markets to unveil potential infractions, traditionally perform their investigation manually and the notable growth in market activity represents an important risk of fraudulent events going unnoticed. In response to that new reality, exchanges around the globe are establishing automated surveillance systems that track market activity. In this project, we set out to design new artificial intelligence algorithms that will detect anything in the Montreal exchange’s market that seems abnormal or fraudulent in the market data and news, so that analysts can focus on these alerts. Such a system could potentially detect fraudulent cases that are currently going unnoticed, while drastically reducing human costs and validation time.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Manuel Morales;Gilles Caporossi

Student:

Partner:

Bourse de Montréal

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

HEC Montréal; Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Improving diagnostics for toxoplasmosis to support public health interventions

People acquire Toxoplasma gondii infection most often by one of two routes: by consuming either bradyzoite-stage parasites from infected meat, or oocyst-stage parasites from contaminated environments. It is important to be able to identify how people become infected with this parasite, for several reasons. Firstly, because this information could be important for predicting how ill the person is likely to become after infection. Secondly, this information could be used by scientists to find out how most
people are acquiring infections in any given population. In turn, this could translate into meaningful public health policies to reduce the number of Toxoplasma infections. This laboratory project will validate a diagnostic test that identifies which route of infection a person (or animal) has been infected with. By trialing the test on animal blood samples of known infection route, the project will estimate how accurate this test is for identifying the route of Toxoplasma infection.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher Fernandez-Prada

Student:

Partner:

Royal Veterinary College

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Aquaculture and Fishing; Life Sciences (not health)

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Investigating Translational Poetics in Canadian Francophone Literatures

This project will shed new light on the interrelations between creative writing and translation in understudied contemporary Canadian Francophone works. Firstly, contemporary Francophone writer-translators of Montréal will be analysed; secondly,
interrelations between the aspects of translation in Montréal’s cityscape, soundscape and literatures will be investigated; thirdly, the process of translation will be employed as a critical tool to examine indigenous Canadian Francophone works. In addition to
examining unexplored literary works, the project will demonstrate and examine how translation can be used to facilitate integration and bridge divides in multilingual communities, how it may be used as a tool for creative writing and as a tool for the critical analysis of literature. The project will demonstrate how translation can be used to enhance interdisciplinary research.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sherry Simon;Judith Woodsworth

Student:

Partner:

King's College London

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Mavi Mi1 Hydrokinetic Turbine Power Converter and Controller Design Review and Field Test

Mavi Innovations is pursuing a prototype demonstration of its 20kW hydrokinetic turbine for generating electricity from river and tidal currents in Fall 2013. Demonstration of this new system includes the development of a control system to govern turbine operation, and of the power electronics to manage generated power and provide electricity to the grid. The Mitacs intern will assist with the design and specification of the commercial off-the-shelf power electronics, and of the control method. The system will be modeled using the MATLAB SIMULINK dynamic modeling software package. The control method will be implemented on a microcontroller to control the speed of the turbine, allowing the collection of turbine performance data such as efficiency and power output. Field test data will be used to validate the SIMULINK model and investigate optimal power converters and control methodologies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

William Dunford

Student:

Partner:

Mavi Innovations Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

How can hybrid forms of image-making invoke a shared radical imagination to respond to our climate emergency?

In the West, the arts have played a distinctive role in enabling the fiction of our current perceptions of ecology; one where human mastery of the planet has been mythologised through the production of images. These artistic myths at one level separate us from nature, while also paradoxically, seeking to establish deep, meaningful connections between the human species and planetary ecology. This fiction has evolved through the development of photography, film-making, advertising and capitalism. Addresses arts responsibility to generate new ways of imagining a response to our urgent ecological circumstance, the research advances new forms of image-making that challenge the ways we
understand and engage “Nature” (the nonhuman world). Its method will employ the host researcher’s concept of the ‘radical imagination’ as a tool that can account for diverse, nonhuman, ways of seeing the world. Expected Outcomes: This interdisciplinary project will result in a filmwork, exhibition and written research paper

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Faculty Supervisor:

Max Haiven

Student:

Partner:

University of Sunderland

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other; Sustainability & the Environment; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

Lakehead University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Norman McLaren Revisited

This project will examine the work of Scottish-Canadian experimental animator Norman McLaren through close analysis of the film production infrastructures and cultural programme of nation-building in Canada in the mid-twentieth century. Understanding
McLaren as a complex figure caught between contradictory political, aesthetic and social conditions, this project will look at the strategies of complicity and subterfuge which enabled McLaren and his contemporaries to produce a remarkable body of film work
against the odds. This research will draw upon new archival research undertaken in Toronto and Montreal to form a live, event-based output delivered in Canada. On return to the UK, this will be followed by a period of research in Scottish archives with a view to the later development of a journal article.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Janine Marchessault

Student:

Partner:

The Glasgow School of Art

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Entertainment and Media; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

York University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Fichte on Cognition, Knowledge, and Epistemic Value

Contemporary society faces a number of information processing challenges. As human lives and digital technology are increasingly connected, our understanding of how we process information and make decisions must keep pace. Philosophy can help with challenges like AI development or fake news by clarifying what we mean by concepts like “knowledge” or “fact”. This project will explore and reconstruct the thoughts of modern German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fiche on these topics.
Fichte was the immediate intellectual successor of Immanuel Kant. Recent Kant scholarship argues that, for Kant, the central epistemic goal was not knowledge but “Erkenntnis”, a German term without a clear English equivalent. This would be interesting because the concept of Erkenntnis does not even exist in contemporary philosophy. During the research placement, I intend to investigate Fichte’s thoughts about the main aims of information processing and compare them to Kant’s Erkenntnis-centred approach. The project will thereby contribute to a better understanding of the goals we have when processing information, i.e., of our “epistemic values” and how we can promote them. Moreover, it will fill a crucial gap in research on German Idealist philosophy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Owen Ware

Student:

Partner:

University of Cambridge

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

An Investigation into Metal-Organic Frameworks for toxic gas adsorption and separation

Porous materials have more internal surface area relative to the external surface area (e.g., a sponge can store more water in it than you would expect based on the external dimensions). Porous materials have applications in gas storage, gas separation, and gas reactivity. As such, they are the ideal material for the reduction of emissions (e.g., CO2, NOx, SOx, etc.). This is an important area of inquiry as we need to be able to reduce emissions for the health of the planet and its inhabitants.
The project aims are to synthesise and characterise materials suitable for the adsorption and separation of toxic gases such and to investigate the conversion of these materials to value added or safer materials. The expected outcomes are that we will have a new family of porous material that have been tailored of the reduction of harmful gas phase pollutants. The materials will be based on existing research at my home university in the UK and new material synthesised at the host university in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Katz

Student:

Partner:

University of Warwick

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Globalink Research Award

A Digital Analysis of Harmonic Integration in the Music of Anton Webern

This project is a computational corpus study that considers harmonic integration in the 31 works of Anton Webern (1883–1945). Harmonic integration concerns the relationship between combinations of notes that sound simultaneously (vertical) and consecutively (linear). During the project, I will write code in Python to analyze the 31 works in the corpus and establish empirically the degree of integration between the vertical and linear domains. This will then be assessed statistically with
regard to chronology, instrumentation, and other pertinent variables.
The results of this research will provide a novel viewpoint on this feature of Webern’s music which he himself identified as crucially important. They will be written up in one or more papers, which will be submitted for prestigious musicological journals. The code and data developed in the project will be published under a Creative Commons license, and so will be accessible by other scholars carrying out related research.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Leigh VanHandel

Student:

Partner:

University of Oxford

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Entertainment and Media; New and Digital Media

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Novel treatments and end uses for kraft mill residuals: post-doctoral research for improved dewatering and energy recovery and developing targeted soil amendments for agriculture, silviculture, and land reclamation

Canada’s pulp and paper sector remains a vital economic engine, particularly for smaller communities. Large volumes of waste residuals, originating primarily from forest biomass and natural minerals, are still landfilled. Research has shown that application of these residues benefits agricultural land and forests, and promotes tree and plant growth in land that has lost its vegetation because the residues contain organic material and nutrients that benefit plant growth. This post-doctoral internship will be focused on helping the mill direct its residues from landfills to some of these or other applications. The post-doc will help establish which applications are regionally available and economically viable; conduct testing to ensure they are safe for the proposed application(s); and help the mill comply with all provincial and national regulations. Key findings of this work will reported at Canadian conferences and journals, both academic and industrial, so that other localities in Canada can benefit.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nikolai DeMartini;Nathan Basiliko

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Kraft Paper

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Next-generation Forecasting of Hazards Offshore from River Deltas

Seafloor avalanches of sediment, known as turbidity currents, can be exceptionally powerful and travel 100s km into the deep sea. These flows pose a significant hazard to seafloor infrastructure such as telecommunication cables, which carry the internet. Understanding the processes that trigger turbidity currents is therefore essential to predict when and where they occur. Detailed measurements of turbidity currents have been made at remote fjorddeltas in British Columbia, Canada, showing flows are preferentially triggered at low tide when river discharge is elevated. However, it is not known if this same relationship between
river discharge and tides exists at major river deltas, where underwater events pose a much greater hazard. This project will use measurements recorded at the Fraser Delta, the largest river system in Western Canada, to test this river-tide relationship on flow triggering. These results will then help us forecast flow activity at river deltas globally.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dan Shugar

Student:

Partner:

University of Southampton

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Authenticating the origin of maple syrups: A new tool based on the study of strontium (Sr) isotopes

The certification of food products, their authenticity and origins has become a growing priority amongst consumers and producers. The differentiation of the different Canadian maple groves necessitates the development and implementation of forensic tools to link maple syrups to their corresponding terroir. Strontium (Sr) isotopes have shown to reflect the local geological conditions of the terroir and may therefore be linked to the origin of the sap used for maple syrup production. Our objectives are here to: i) understand the strontium budget between the soil, the sap and the maple syrup produced from it, ii) Implement this novel approach in the Quebec province and upscale it to the whole Canada, and iii) Study the potential impact of climate change on maple syrup production. This project will provide stakeholders in food certification and the maple syrup industry with a new and efficient method to authenticate the origin of their products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Widory;Ross Stevenson

Student:

Partner:

Centre ACER

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Forestry; Technology

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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