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Optimization Design and experimental demonstration of Optical Phased Arrays (OPAs)

We are proposing to help design the experimental setup to characterize chip-scale Optical Phased Arrays (OPAs). OPAs – a photonic device used for optical beam forming and beam steering – have been widely studied for LiDAR, optical sensing, free-space communication and more. Building on previously prototyped phase array antenna design at Honeywell, the team aims to develop next-generation micro-photonic phase arrays that can steer beams with minimum output of 2 Watt (optical power) for data rates on the order of 10 Gbps and acceptable bit error rates. Our goal is to establish and conduct in-lab characterization of the newly design OPA to validate and verify design parameters predicted through simulation studies, as well as to provide recommendations for optimization of the OPA design.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Regina Lee;Winnie Ye

Student:

Partner:

Honeywell Canada (Kanata, ON)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing

University:

Carleton University; York University

Program:

Accelerate

Recherche sur les publics actuels et potentiels du Musée de la civilisation de Québec

En 2023, le Musée de la civilisation de Québec (MCQ) renouvelle son exposition permanente sur l’histoire du Québec pour en faire un attrait plus actuel, plus rassembleur et plus inclusif. Près de 18 ans après le lancement de la dernière exposition permanente, le premier défi du Musée est de récolter des données statistiques sur le visage et les intérêts de son public actuel, ainsi que sur le public potentiel afin de créer une exposition pertinente, moderne et populaire. Ces informations nécessaires serviront ainsi à la compréhension précise des attentes du public québécois, canadien et international envers cette nouvelle exposition. Ce stage Mitacs est mené pour permettre non seulement au Musée d’évoluer avec les plus récentes connaissances scientifiques en matière de sondage, mais également à la Chaire de leadership en enseignement des sciences sociales numériques (CLESSN) de poursuivre sur le terrain le développement de ces méthodes novatrices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yannick Dufresne

Student:

Partner:

Musée de la civilisation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Utilities

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Mobile shape-changing haptic props for virtual reality

The proposed project is built around combining two existing projects, one situated at Carleton and the other situated at NAIST. Carleton has developed a tactile device which can both be tracked for use with Virtual Reality and can also change shape to simulate the tactile feel of various objects presented in a virtual environment. The limit of this device is in its lack of mobility, which is where the research done by Prof. Kiyoshi Kiyokawa’s lab can benefit. Prof. Kiyokawa developed a drone to be used with VR to intercept a participant’s motion and provide tactile feedback via a carried plastic barrier. The limitation of this is in versatility, offering only one barrier shape. These two projects when combined, creates a mobile shape changing tactile system. However, the combination of these technologies creates new challenges (weight, stability, speed) that will need to be addressed throughout the research process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Teather

Student:

Partner:

Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Technology; New and Digital Media; Entertainment and Media

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Automatic Classification of Normal and Dysphagic Swallows Based on the sEMG Signals

Swallow events classification is significant to improve the performance of swallow detection in digital health technologies. Our work consists of two major contributions: First, we perform data preprocessing techniques and transform the raw sEMG signals into feature vectors before using them to train an ML classifier. It is important for developing a data exploration project since preprocessing the data can often help with getting rid of the noise. Besides, properly optimized feature extraction is the key to effective model construction in machine learning. Second, we develop an ML swallow-detection algorithm to classify swallow events that can use algorithms like Artificial Neural Network (ANN), fuzzy classifier, Support Vector Machines (SVM), etc. Improving the accuracy of swallowing detection will lead to more robust digital health software systems to support patients who are experiencing swallowing disorders because of conditions like head and neck cancer, stroke or Parkinson’s Disease.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Linglong Kong

Student:

Partner:

True Angle Medical Technologies, Inc.

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Manufacturing

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Unsupervised Financial Fraud Detection Using Low-rank Recovery

The goal of this research is to give an effectively unsupervised financial fraud detection method, in which low rank recovery method is used to exploit intrinsic relationship of data samples. The benefits of our methods have several folds: (1) compared with classification-based methods, our methods can deal with the imbalance problem effectively; (2) by using low rank recovery, our methods can exploit intrinsic relationship of data samples effectively; (3) compared with PCA-based methods, the prior used in our methods are more reasonable for the case of financial fraud detection.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xianta Jiang

Student:

Partner:

NASDAQ Canada Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Finance and Insurance

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Digital Leigh Hunt

Le projet « Digital Leigh Hunt » explorera plus précisément la position centrale de Leigh Hunt sur la scène littéraire et critique londonienne de la première moitié du XIXe siècle, à travers le prisme des outils des humanités numériques. Hunt est aujourd’hui considéré comme l’une des figures clés de la période romantique en Angleterre, connu pour son travail d’éditeur, de journaliste, de poète et d’animateur. Ce stage permettra d’étudier en profondeur les interactions et les réseaux de Hunt. Étant donné que la carrière de Hunt a impliqué un certain nombre de cercles et de genres littéraires et politiques qui sont généralement traités de manière isolée, une nouvelle étude de l’éventail de ses travaux critiques au cours de sa carrière fournira des informations précieuses sur les liens entre les mouvements romantique et victorien et sur la croissance d’un public élargi et socialement plus diversifié pour les essais critiques et le journalisme littéraire sérieux. « Digital Leight Hunt » consiste en deux sous-projets étroitement liés sur Hunt : le premier est une monographie intitulée Digital Leigh Hunt, et le second est une base de données en ligne consacrée aux écrits critiques de Hunt, appelée « Leigh Hunt Archive », qui améliorera l’accessibilité et l’utilisation des œuvres de Hunt.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Emmanuel Château-Dutier

Student:

Partner:

Université François-Rabelais de Tours

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Leveraging Observability via Tracing for Software Regression Detection and Root-cause Analysis

The main objective of the proposed research is to present a new adaptive tracing framework to dynamically adjust the monitoring and tracing of software systems according to the observability objectives at hand. This will lead to a more efficient and effective trace collection and will ensure that the proposed framework will efficiently collect just enough (cost-aware) and relevant (noise-free) trace data around the runtime issues. This is indeed crucial for Ciena, our partner company, where embedded systems and resource-constrained machines are heavily used. To achieve this objective, the interns will study and examine the existing methods and will devise algorithms and strategies for dynamic adaptive data collection as well as dynamic optimization of the amount, speed, and resolution of the collected data, based on the current ongoing behavior or the learned profile of the system under investigation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Naser Ezzati-Jivan

Student:

Partner:

Ciena Corporation (Ottawa, ON)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Brock University

Program:

Accelerate

cyberSKA II: Scientific test and verification of multi-node distributed infrastructure for data-intensive radio astronomy

The work to be undertaken by the intern with Rackforce builds on a successful NSERC engage grant to develop a distributed cyberinfrastructure system linking the University of Calgary with the Rackforce data centre in Kelowna. This system will demonstrate reliable leading-edge infrastructure for distributed multi-user collaboration for advanced scientific data processing. The planned work consists of processing, visualization and analytics of very large radio astronomy data sets, leading to the full-scale Square Kilometer Array (SKA). The intern is currently processing and analyzing data in Calgary from the GALFACTS project, to explore the origin and evolution of cosmic magnetism. This project involves over 40 scientists in Canada, the US, Australia, Europe, and India. The intern will research, develop and implement the new installation at Rackforce and integrate this with the GALFACTS processing and analytics at the University of Calgary. This will take place through debugging, testing, verifying and demonstrating the new multi-node system for global collaboration. The work will produce the essential end-to-end testing, verification and demonstration of the multi-node system with the new Rackforce analytics and storage capacities supporting the global SKA project. B

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Faculty Supervisor:

A.R. Taylor

Student:

Partner:

RackForce

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Stylo : un éditeur de texte sémantique pour la rédaction scientifique

Stylo est conçu pour simplifier la rédaction et l’édition d’articles scientifiques en Sciences humaines et sociales. Il est destiné aux auteur·e·s et aux éditeur·rice·s engagé·e·s dans une édition scientifique de qualité. Bien que fondamentale en vue d’une diffusion numérique, la structuration des documents est actuellement reportée à la fin du processus éditorial. Elle devrait pourtant être envisagée dès la production, c’est-à-dire par l’auteur lui-même. La philosophie de Stylo consiste à remettre dans les mains des chercheurs et des éditeurs la gestion du balisage en s’appuyant sur leurs compétences sémantiques plutôt que graphiques. Cet outil repose la question de l’écriture scientifique, d’un point de vue théorique avec une dimension technique en situation d’édition. Le stage sera l’occasion de développer plusieurs fonctionnalités de cet éditeur déjà disponible : l’écriture en mode simultané et la synchronisation avec des systèmes de publication.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marcello Vitali-Rosati;Emmanuel Château-Dutier

Student:

Partner:

Université François-Rabelais de Tours

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Model for improving customer satisfaction and determining customer choice for maintenance in the automotive industry

In this fast-growing world, customer satisfaction and service quality are the two important concepts that companies must understand to withstand the market and grow. In today’s competitive environment, delivering high-quality service is the key to sustainable competitive advantage. Our company is proposing a model that will help improve customer satisfaction, which will impact the customer’s choice to choose their service provider. A team of undergraduate students will be responsible for the research conducive to the design and selection of the model framework.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alex Stewart

Student:

Partner:

MechMonkey

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

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

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

K-12 Curricular and Programming Development around New Chinese Canadian History Resources

The recent opening of the Chinese Canadian Museum’s inaugural exhibition, “A Seat at the Table: Chinese Immigration and British Columbia,” in Vancouver features the history – and present – of Chinese Canadians’ struggle and agency for acceptance and belonging. The SAT exhibit, including its interactive features, provides a valuable experiential learning opportunity for K-12 students and members of the general public. This project will create educational resources to prepare K-12 teachers and students across the country to engage with the SAT exhibition. This project will leverage the opportunities presented by COVID-19 by creating materials for teachers and students in both print and digital formats, allowing for flexible, dynamic in-person and remote learning experiences. Complementary walking tours and interactive workshops will be developed for teachers, students, and the general public. Partner organizations will benefit from the historical research, program development, and expertise that the student interns provide to this project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Henry Yu;Jennifer Douglas

Student:

Partner:

Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada;MUSE Society

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Information and cultural industries; Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Comparaison de différentes traductions en français de l’Énéide de Virgile

Mon projet de mémoire de recherche s’inscrit dans le champ de la traductologie et se veut une approche renouvelée des textes antiques par le biais de leurs traductions. Il s’agit donc de comparer plusieurs traductions en français de l’Énéide de Virgile et de l’Anthologie Palatine à l’aide d’outils numériques (il conviendra d’ailleurs de tester plusieurs approches afin de définir les plus adéquats), d’identifier les variations qui existent entre ces différents textes et de les analyser à la lumière des théories de la traduction. Tout en explorant des questions de traductologie sur les pratiques et les usages de la traduction ou encore sur la spécificité de la retraduction, ces analyses permettront d’interroger la façon dont le corpus choisi donne à voir, individuellement comme collectivement, les œuvres originales et ce qu’il nous en apprend. Autrement dit, les résultats de la recherche permettront de réfléchir sur les apports des traductions à la lecture et à la compréhension du texte source.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael E. Sinatra;Dominic Forest

Student:

Partner:

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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