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Ocean Allies 9

The Ocean Allies project has a total value of more than $420,000 where the Ocean Supercluster will provide $250,000 with the balance of funding coming from project partners. Led by Pisces Research Project Management Inc together with partners Upswing Solutions, Huntsman Marine Science Centre, Assembly of First Nations, BioNB, Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship (COVE), Irving Shipbuilding, Nova Scotia Business Inc, Ocean Technology Council of Nova Scotia, Ocean Frontier Institute, OceansAdvance, PanGeo Subsea, Synapse, Mitacs,and Ulnooweg, this project is designed to access, engage, and support a diverse ocean economy through targeted strategic activities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Darcy Benoit

Student:

Partner:

Pisces Research Project Management Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Acadia University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Marketing Internship at OPA Technologies

An internship at this organization will give me valuable work experience and allow me to network with professionals in the field. I would offer the partner organization input on their social media presence and their marketing strategies and help them further develop their positioning strategies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shushan Karapetyan

Student:

Partner:

OPA Technologies

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Washable wearables for affordable and aesthetic augmentation of visuo-tactile sensory-perception enhancement in mixed reality

The inclusion of touch and physical sensations from within Virtual Reality and other Mixed Reality experiences provides exciting opportunities from both an entertainment and academic perspective. Enhancing immersive integration within these environments is useful, beneficial and thus highly desired- whether we are looking to develop skills for use in challenging technical and medical or dangerous environments; physical-therapy work needing sensitive hand interaction; enhancing creative tools that use gestures and full-body movement; transferring realistic and complex sensations in virtual games or educational settings; understanding our sensory-perception systems under unique circumstances; or even social implications of regaining touch within available digital technologies. This internship addresses the open-problem of touch-based sensations from a perspective that values technical development methodologies focused on solutions that are: low-cost; open-source; accessible; washable; lightweight; and aesthetic. Wearable on the wrist and fingertips- this flexible prototype has the potential to provide greater access to viable developments in increased virtual sensory-perception.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Graham Wakefield

Student:

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Connected Canadians – Program Coordinator

Connected Canadians is a non-profit organization that helps older adults with free technology support and training. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the demand for their services significantly, as our ways of connecting, interacting, and living have shifted to online. Connected Canadians has been growing its volunteer mentor team significantly to help meet the rising needs of its clients. The proposed research project is to monitor and document the progress of technology mentors from an employability perspective and improve training processes. Many of the volunteers at Connected Canadians are newcomers to Canada and benefit from the conversational practice and cultural awareness when interacting and assisting the clients with their technology needs. The project would involve supporting the technology mentors and utilizing research tools such as qualitative interviews, skills inventory surveys and exit surveys, to gather information and translate them into key learnings and findings. The goal of this research project is to support the professional and cultural growth of the technology mentors and improve Connected Canadians’ future volunteer onboarding processes and volunteer outcomes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shaobo Ji

Student:

Partner:

Connected Canadians

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Education

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

The Pharmacokinetics Evaluation of HDAC6-selective Inhibitors for Use in Therapeutic Strategies

Histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) is a protein known to be involved in a wide array of cancers. Although there are currently 4 approved HDAC inhibitors to date, these drugs lack the selectivity to only target HDAC6, given its high structural similarities with 10 other HDAC proteins, resulting in severe side-effects in patients such as nausea, diarrhea, and cardiac toxicities. Moreover, these approved drugs are also easily eliminated by the body, requiring the patients to take high doses frequently, further worsening the toxicity profile. To mitigate these drawbacks, we have developed >500 molecules with exceptional potency, HDAC6-selectivity, and stability. With promising efficacy in cancer cell models, the next aim of our research is to evaluate the stability of these compounds. We hope to use the pharmacokinetics profiles obtained to guide the development of stable, effective and safe molecules as the next generation of disease-modifying treatment for T-cells prolymphocytic leukaemia.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patrick Gunning

Student:

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Application of Viscoelastic Coupling Dampers(VCDs) for Enhanced Dynamic Performance of a60-Storey High-Rise in Downtown Toronto

The biggest challenge faced by structural engineers in the design of high-rise structures is to control the dynamic responses of these structures due to wind and earthquake vibrations. While the traditional techniques of stiffening and adding vibration absorbers can mitigate the vibrational response to a degree, they also increase the construction cost and result in a loss of leasable space in the building structure. The goal of the proposed project is to perform preliminary and detailed design of a 60-storey high-rise structure in downtown Toronto using the Viscoelastic Coupling Damper (VCD) from Kinetica Dynamics Inc, which is a spinoff company from the University of Toronto. The VCD is a novel damping system that controls high-rise wind and earthquake vibrations by adding distributed viscous damping to the building without occupying any leasable floor space. The project is divided into three stages, all focusing on a 60-storey high-rise building in downtown Toronto.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jeffrey Packer

Student:

Partner:

Kinetica Risk

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Environmental Science and Technology; Advanced Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Design of a Wearable Soft Sensor to monitor Skin Health

For people with mobility impairments, such as spinal cord injury survivors, rehabilitation and at home care settings come with the possibility of costly, painful pressure ulcers and skin breakdown. Occurring at a high frequency, current practice requires constant vigilance by caretakers and individuals using self-management practices. This injury comes from a prolonged application of pressures, temperatures and humid environments causing the skin to die from a lack of blood flow, usually from situations that an able-bodied person can avoid, but those with mobility impairments cannot. Our research project looks to create a wearable garment, personalised to the individual, that provides information to the user and caretaker on how best to adjust the body’s pose and placement to prevent pressure ulcer formation beyond the current “visual inspection” approach commonly used to decrease pressure ulcer risk.

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Faculty Supervisor:

James Tung

Student:

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancing the charge speed, useable capacity, and cycle life of lithium-ion battery packs using a novel health-conscious fast charging and active balancing strategy

One crucial difficulty with fast charging lithium-ion battery packs is the possibility of battery capacity deterioration if not properly managed. Fast charging electric vehicles for example, should involve ensuring that each one of the thousands of cells are charged safely and are balanced to all the other cells if the range of the vehicle is to be maintained for several years. The most common way to safely charge and balance cells involves a lot of wasted energy and suboptimal capacity saving methods. Our proposed research deals with both these problems by closely managing the charging process as well as the health and charge discrepancies among cells while fast charging. Using a technology like this enables automated systems like vehicles or robots to last long and spend more time on the road as opposed to charging.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xianke Lin

Student:

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Program:

Accelerate

Design and Prototype of Hybrid Battery Management System (HBMS) to Supply Economic Energy Storage Solution in Ultra-Cold Climate

The battery is considered as the source of power for electric transport. The performance of the battery drops at low temperature which reduces the mileage of Electric Vehicle (EV). This issue is hindering the widespread adoption of EV in cold places like Canada. The Low-Temperature Battery (LTB) can be used in EV to solve the low milage problem in extreme cold temperature, but its cost is around three times higher than the Normal Temperature Battery (NTB). So, using the LTB in an EV is not economically feasible. In this Hybrid proposed Battery Management System, LTB will be used to warm up the NTB in extremely cold weather, and NTB will be used to drive the EV. A controller will control the warm-up process based on the temperature data. All the protections (over-heating, over-voltage, over-current, etc) for LTB & NTB will be ensured in this project to determine system fesability.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hossam Gaber

Student:

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Program:

Accelerate

Cloud-based analysis platform for in-house DNA sequencing: plasmid validation

Biological manufacturers are now to make chemicals and biological products (like proteins) by growing large amounts of microorganisms like bacteria or algae. One major quality control step in the manufacturing process is to check the genetic sequences of these microorganisms because they often not correctly made. This is due to the biological method for manipulating the sequences is not perfect. To check that the genetic sequences are correct, manufacturers typically send samples for DNA sequencing at international service providers. Recent advances in DNA-sequencing technology allow for this to be done in-house, but it requires specialized computers and software skills. We are therefore developing an easy-to-use web application for advanced biological manufacturers to verify genetic sequences in-house, which will significantly speed up the manufacturing process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gregory Gloor

Student:

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Accelerate

Intelligent Query and Learning System (IQLS)

Intelligent Query and Learning System (IQLS) is a web application that offers a platform for a business owner, product seller, service provider, doctor, engineer or anyone with a goal of providing service to their client or audience. Using this platform, an individual can train the system with information related to their business, service, or product, and the system becomes ready to answer related questions to their followers or audience who are interested in the service or product. Providing answers to the questions of the clients can help to increase sales and grow the business. The platform provides question-answering scope to the users by means of a public URL or web page where the audience can ask questions. A part of their trained knowledge could be shared with someone else having a similar query, hence the platform can be used from people all around the world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hossam Gaber

Student:

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Program:

Accelerate

Conditional Flow-based Speech-Driven Gesture Synthesis

Speech-driven gesture synthesis is the process of automatically generating relatable and realistic gestures given speech and high-level attributes such as speaker’s style. It is an active research area with applications in video games, animated movies, communicative agents, and human-computer interaction. Commonly, a database of gestures is manually created which are then triggered at different times by markup in dialog. This is a significantly time consuming and tedious step in animation pipelines. Recently, with the power of machine learning approaches, character animation has been pushed forward towards new boundaries. Yet, modelling speech-driven gesture synthesis using machine learning architectures has been proved to be difficult due to the particular characteristics and the nature of the human gesture. To this end, this project aims at pushing forward state-of-the-art speech-driven gesture synthesis performance through: (1) proposing a novel generative machine learning approach that can model natural variations of human motion and can modulate speaker’s style into the generated gestures, (2) capturing a new data set containing a large variation of gestures and styles, and (3) a qualitative evaluation of the proposed approach by comparing it with other baselines.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nikolaus F Troje

Student:

Partner:

Ubisoft Toronto

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

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