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Inhaled allergen challenge methodology: Assessment of SOLO Vibrating Mesh Nebulizer for Allergen-Induced Late Asthmatic Responses

The allergen inhalation challenge model is an important research technique for asthma drug development, and has been used for many years by the AllerGen CIC consortium of Canadian investigators in their evaluations of new asthma therapies. An alternate nebulizer is needed for performing inhaled allergen challenges, and this device needs to be tested for its ability to induce characteristic allergen-induced late asthmatic airway bronchoconstriction and associated inflammation. Additional novel non-invasive measures of airway inflammation for mechanistic outcomes will permit comprehensive understanding immune pathways affected by investigational medications. This study will compare the development of allergen-induced asthmatic responses (bronchoconstriction and inflammation) generated using a Solo® nebulizer to that of the Wright® nebulizer. This information is critically important because late asthmatic responses are the endpoint of most studies assessing the efficacy of investigational asthma medications, and will improve the efficiency and quality of Canadian asthma research and drug development.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gail Gauvreau

Student:

Partner:

Allergy, Genes and Environment Network

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Histoire de la conversion énergétique des déchets

Le stage à l’UQTR fait partie d’un projet postdoctoral sur l’histoire des techniques de conversion énergétique des déchets de 1970 à 2000. Il dresse une comparaison entre la France, les États-Unis et le Canada, par l’analyse des programmes de recherche et développement (R&D) ainsi que des dynamiques d’acteurs impliqués dans ces trois territoires. L’approche comparative permet d’identifier des tendances internationales et des spécificités territoriales. Le but est d’étudier les transformations sociales, technologiques et économiques des déchets et de l’énergie au croisement de la “crise des déchets” et de la “crise de l’énergie” dans les années 1970, dues à une consommation sans cesse croissante de matières et d’énergie.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mahdi Khelfaoui

Student:

Partner:

Université de Nantes

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Deep learning based fault diagnostics for manufacturing systems considering data imbalance

Due to the recent 4th industrial revolution, manufacturing systems have become intelligent with the fusion of the industrial internet of things (IIoT) and cloud computing. To improve the reliability and availability of intelligent manufacturing systems, data-driven fault diagnostic methods have been paid much attention due to numerous data obtained from the manufacturing systems. Among data-driven approaches, deep learning based fault diagnostic methods have shown outstanding performance. However, the existing deep learning based approaches are limited in the case of an imbalanced dataset. In real-world manufacturing applications, data imbalance is commonly encountered because the manufacturing systems are mostly operated under healthy conditions. To solve this challenge, in this project, we develop a new deep learning model for fault diagnostics of manufacturing systems considering data imbalance problem. The developed model will be further validated using the dataset from the testbed and real-manufacturing system to realize the fault diagnostics for the intelligent manufacturing systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chi-Guhn Lee

Student:

Partner:

Seoul National University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Targeted Incentive Offering for At-Risk Customers in an E-Commerce Setting

In this project, we focus on increasing sales in e-commerce shops by offering purchasing incentives to shoppers who are likely to leave without buying. More specifically, our goal is to predict which shoppers are likely to abandon their shopping cart and what can be done while they’re still on the site to customize their shopping experience and encourage them to buy (e.g. offering a discount). Our approach is based on analyzing the shopping experiences of various customers in many different retail stores to learn a statistical model of the customer shopping cycle. We investigate how machine learning techniques can be used to estimate the likelihood that a customer will abandon a purchase. For a customer who is likely to leave, we try to learn which of the available promotional actions are most probable to encourage the customer to finish the current purchase.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joerg Sander

Student:

Partner:

Granify Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Verres d’oxydes lourds et fibres pour l’infrarouge

Ce projet portant sur le développement de fibres optiques moyen-infrarouge pour l’amplification laser s’appuie sur des compositions de verres à base d’oxydes lourds dopées avec des ions luminescents tels que des terre-rares. En effet grâce à l’emploi d’oxydes lourds, l’énergie de phonons du verre est abaissé permettant une exaltation des phénomènes de luminescence rendant intrinsèquement plus efficace l’amplification laser. De plus, avec des températures de transition vitreuse plus élevées, le matériau supporte une plus forte intensité lumineuse d’excitation, améliorant d’autant l’amplification laser.
Ainsi, ce projet a pour ambition de développer ces nouvelles compositions vitreuses et à en obtenir des fibres optiques par étirage d’une préforme de verre réalisée par coulée. L’effort principal du projet sera mis sur l’identification des compositions d’oxydes lourds les plus intéressantes et sur les conditions expérimentales permettant d’obtenir des préformes viables pour un étirement en vue d’obtenir des fibres optiques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Younès Messaddeq

Student:

Partner:

Université de Bordeaux

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Technology; Advanced Manufacturing

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award

AI-driven evaluation of clinical electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings

The proposed project is part of a large-scale collaboration between SFU’s Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Institute (BCNI) and Fraser Health Authority(FHA) in the domain of AI applied to clinical electroencephalographic (EEG) scans recorded and evaluated in the process of diagnostic workup in FHA’s public hospitals (n>40’000). The key goal of the SFU/FHA collaboration is to automate the process of EEG reporting by building a decision support system. Conventional review of EEG relies on neurologists to visually inspect complex, noisy, high-dimensional digital data. Such an approach is slow, not fully reliable, and suboptimal. There is considerable variability in EEG interpretation, and this variability is affected by specific reader characteristics. Given these challenges, clinical reporting of EEG is highly suitable for machine-driven automation. The focus of the proposed project at a smaller scale is on predicting diagnoses (codes for most responsible diagnosis, secondary diagnosis, etc, according to International Statistical Classification of Diseases ICD-10) from in-patient EEG scans. We aim to address the following question: what current deep learning approaches can be used to reach state-of-the-art performance for EEG classification based on diagnostic codes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vasily Vakorin

Student:

Partner:

Ukrainian Catholic University

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Artificial Intelligence; Biotechnology

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Porphyrin/phthalocyanine CO2 electroreduction catalysts

We are interested in the development of new technology that uses CO2 to make chemicals or next-generation fuels. Such technology would address concerns about curbing emissions and alternative fuel sources. Our objective is to investigate catalysts that can selectively and efficiently convert CO2 to CO, which is desirable because CO is a valuable commercial compound that can be made into many other products. Metalloporphyrins are known catalysts for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO. The net reaction requires input of protons and electrons at the right time and to the appropriate activated chemical intermediate. Addition of local proton sources to porphyrins boosts their electrochemical CO2 reduction activity. Likewise, incorporation of these molecules into supramolecular, ordered materials can yield attractive properties (e.g. stability, selectivity). The proposed project leverages the electrochemical, structural characterization and metal-chemistry expertise at SFU (Leznoff/Warren groups) and the synthetic ability of our colleagues from France to investigate novel molecules and supramolecular linkers for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction. The French group are experts in synthesis of phenanthroline-strapped porphyrins (PSPs) and unique bipyridine linkers that can enhance the surface-area at the CO2-electroreduction electrode surface.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel Leznoff

Student:

Partner:

Université de Strasbourg

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Water and CO2 Electrolysis: Understanding Ion transport

Water and CO2 Electrolysis paves the way for clean storage for renewable and green energy/electricity. Water electrolysis being a well developed technology lays the groundwork for designing the CO2 electrolysers. In the recent years the research focus has, however, shifted from proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysers to anion exchange membrane (AEM) electrolysers, as AEM based electrolysers were reported to show high faradic efficiency for CO2 reduction. That being said, the practical operation of the anion exchange membranes (AEMs) used in these electrolysers has been influenced by the co-ion cross overs. Therefore, IEM permselectivity play a pivotal role in designing such electrolysers and electrochemical separation devices such as fuel cells, flow batteries, electrodialysis, reverse electrodialysis, electrosynthesis etc.
The role of an IEM in these electrolysers is to permit preferential transport of counter-ions through the polymer matrix. This preferential transport phenomenon is often characterized by a counter-ion transport numbers and permselectivity values. Permselectivity of counter-ions is an important specification required while designing the efficient ion exchange membranes (IEMs) for novel technologies. Several factors including ion exchange capacity (IEC), membrane thickness, polymer morphology etc. influence the ion transport behaviour of an ion exchange membranes in electrolyte solutions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steven Holdcroft

Student:

Partner:

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Populism, Democracy and the State: Argentine Rural Movements in Pursuit of Sustainable Development

The purpose of this project is to analyze the role of Argentine rural social movements in facing the advancement of right-wing conservative forces and ‘regressive populism,’ and in the establishment of a new hegemonic formation that can deepen democracy instead. It aims to analyze these movements’ socioeconomic, political, and cultural practices and their strategies for achieving food sovereignty through agroecology and fair trade, and to characterize emerging peasant-state relations. The relevance of this initiative lies in the possibility of understanding critical global issues regarding sustainable development through a case study (Argentina). Through comparative study, the research will contribute to further develop Dr. Otero’s theory that explains the political and cultural processes by which landless, small and medium farmers, as well as indigenous communities, transcend their socially-isolated and fragmented position to organize and struggle for their interests, but also propose democratic, sustainable development paths to nations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gerardo Otero

Student:

Partner:

Universidad Nacional de San Martín

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Sustainability & the Environment; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Research and Implementation of Haptics Device Integration With a DynamicsSimulation Engine and Applications to Milling and Drilling Force Feedback (third stage)

Virtual environments represented by multibody system models play an important role in many applications. Adding the possibility of the user directly interacting with such environments via physical touch using haptics can significantly enhance the usability and range of application of simulated environments. In this project we particularly target two main objectives: (1) the multirate-simulation and haptics challenge to incorporate realistic kinesthetic force feedback in multibody dynamics simulation of geometrically complex mechanical systems, and (2) application to milling and drilling bone in spinal surgery simulation. The partner organization, CMLabs will greatly benefit from this project. The proposed work is of direct relevance to their current work, and will also open up possibilities to broaden the applications of CMLabs’ software platform Vortex. This proposal represents the third stage of the internship.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jozsef Kovecses

Student:

Partner:

CMLabs

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Developing CLEWs Modelling Tools to Support Sustainable Development (4)

The Climate, Land, Energy and Water systems (CLEWs) model allows for representation of the Nexus interactions between different sectors. Applied in Sustainable Development contexts, the CLEWs model enhances policy coherence and supports effective decision making.
Over the last few years partners at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) and Loughborough University (United Kingdom) have worked together with the Simon Fraser University School of Sustainable Energy Engineering to build tools for applying and using CLEWs models in sustainable development. This project will enhance and build on the existing tools to make them more robust, enhance the ability of the CLEWs models to represent more aspects of the Nexus, and streamline CLEWs analyses. The specific goals of the project include enhancing existing open source modelling tools to represent a wider variety of Nexus challenges. With these enhanced tools, the students that are part of this project will apply the enhanced CLEWs model to the analysis of land use and water use implications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Taco Niet

Student:

Partner:

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Water; Energy and Utilities

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Developing CLEWs Modelling Tools to Support Sustainable Development (3)

The Climate, Land, Energy and Water systems (CLEWs) model allows for representation of the Nexus interactions between different sectors. Applied in Sustainable Development contexts, the CLEWs model enhances policy coherence and supports effective decision making.
Over the last few years partners at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) and Loughbrorough University (United Kingdom) have worked together with the Simon Fraser University School of Sustainable Energy Engineering to build tools for applying and using CLEWs models in sustainable development. This project will enhance and build on the existing tools to make them more robust, enhance the ability of the CLEWs models to represent more aspects of the Nexus, and streamline CLEWs analyses. The specific goal of the project include enhancing existing open source modelling tools to represent a wider variety of Nexus challenges. With these enhanced tools, the students that are part of this project will apply the enhanced CLEWs model to the analysis of land use and water use implications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Taco Niet

Student:

Partner:

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Energy and Utilities; Green/Alternative Energy; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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