Innovative Projects Realized

Asper School of Business – Goodeye Technologies

Goodeye Technologies Inc. is an early-stage artificial intelligence startup, leveraging its machine learning platform to develop and deploy computer vision applications for partners in various industries. The Business Operations Intern is a cross-functional, multi-disciplinary role and will be part of a company that uses our diverse skills to create beautiful harmony between AI, real estate, and security.

Business Strategy Intern

Anticipated project activities would include setting up a strategy for Thought Leadership pieces, writing articles on trends in the Food & Beverage Industry, some editing and on-going updates to our website, social media posts (i.e. LinkedIn, Twitter) and launching all the marketing materials around securing new lines of business (designing brochures/pitch decks, perfecting generic email templates, 1-page tear sheets, etc.). Once the main responsibilities are learned, writing of the official Project Plan would commence and be done on top of normal duties.

Other responsibilities include: identifying business opportunities, building and maintaining successful relationships with potential and existing clients, collaborating with the firms Principal on business/marketing strategy, as well as maximizing business reach and potential.

Business Strategy Internship (Mitacs) – Marketing

Market development activities
a. Build customer awareness programs and campaigns
b. Decide on media mix for such campaigns
c. Make a market map of key customers and build strategies on creating the outreach
d. Network extensively and actually outreach to target customer organizations and users
e. Research on regulatory and compliance requirements at customer end, and how to comply with those
f. Support and engage global teams in marketing efforts

Investigating subjective bias in machine-learning walkability systems

This project seeks to understand how pedestrians cultural background affect their perceptions of urban space, and how those perceptions are fed into modern urban planning systems. Walkability is a measurement of how easy it is for a pedestrian to move through space, and varies greatly throughout the world. Previous studies have shown walkability is highly subjective, and is influenced by ones cultural and economic background. One of the most cutting edge ways of measuring walkability utilizes machine learning to take data about a groups perception of different urban spaces and generalize those values to show larger patterns in walkability. However, most of theses studies do no take into account the aforementioned cultural subjectivity of the issue. This study seeks to gather data on peoples perceptions of these spaces from multiple cultural and economic backgrounds, and to use said data to create machine learning models that show how perceptions of walkabiliy vary between groups from different backgrounds. We are especially interested in gathering data from the pedestrians on the street in Pune, India and Montreal, Canada and comparing them.

Conversion du modèle d’affaires ContinuumRD en un parcours numérique d’encadrement de l’innovation : Portion stratégies de financement – Robin Mazure

Le stage a pour objectif d’appuyer la transformation du modèle d’affaires de ContinuumRD en une version numérique de cette dernière. Ce stage couvre la portion “stratégies financières” réalisées par le stagiaire Robin Mazure sous la supervision directe de l’administrateur de ContinuumRD (Stéphane Carpentier) et jumelé à son professeur Sylvain Perron de HEC Montréal.

Anova Fertility Business Development Project

The proposed project will act to analyze and improve the referral network at the partnering organization. Building the referral network through forming relationships and partnerships with other professionals will facilitate growth for the company. The expected benefit of the project will be successful data analysis on previous referral behaviour of healthcare providers paired with short and long term strategy to grow the company.

Process optimization andS pectroscopic Analysis of Diamond–?Like Carbon Films

Diamond like carbon (DLC) is an amorphous form of carbon with a high fraction of diamond-like (sp3) bonds. DLC thin films have many attractive attributes including extraordinary hardness, enhanced lubrication and wear resistance properties. Aurora Scientific Corp. is the provider of advanced vacuum coating systems based on its patented physical vapor deposition (PVD) technology. Aurora is seeking to improve their DLC thin film deposition technology by optimizing the conditions required to deposit high quality DLC coatings. We propose to assist Aurora in this development by monitoring the film characteristics during growth through in situ Raman spectroscopic analysis and optical emission spectroscopy and to correlate the thin film deposition conditions with desirable physical properties. The information gathered will help Aurora to implement an integrated OES/Raman process controller system into its commercial PVD vacuum coating systems.

Biomedical Regulation & Modelling

The intern will be learning the regulations and stipulations surrounding medical devices to help navigate new developments of the technology. The goal is to minimize the setbacks that are associated with medical device approval by working with the research and development team to ensure that the upgrades are viable. This will free up personnel currently working on regulations to focus, instead, on improving the technology. In addition, the intern will embark on modelling the acoustics of new applicators of the technology in an effort to study the effects of these designs and compare them to the present model. This aides the partner organization in making more informed decisions on their applicators, and opt for the most efficient.

SSE – Viau

Miel Montréal désire créer des habitats sains pour les pollinisateurs en se basant sur les plus récentes recherches scientifiques sur le sujet. Mon projet de stage permettra de répondre à la problématique associée à la potentielle bioamplification des polluants envers ces insectes lors d’un verdissement mellifère dans une friche industrielle. De plus, elle permettra d’ajouter un autre service écosystémique associé à leurs jardins en ajoutant la portion phytoremédiatrice. Il sera donc démontré si oui ou non, ces quatre espèces de plantes mellifères couramment utilisées dans les jardins de pollinisateurs ont des propriétés phytoremédiatrices et si celles-ci sont nuisibles pour la santé des pollinisateurs. Je vais devoir faire des analyses de contaminants dans les plantes sélectionnées et interpréter les données en faisant des analyses statistiques. L’interprétation de ces résultats devrait permettre d’émettre des commentaires critiques basés sur des données obtenues dans un contexte appliqué à une situation réelle de friche industrielle. Finalement, je vais me référer à la littérature scientifique pour faire des recommandations pour Miel Montréal.

Progressive Real Estate Digital Marketing Plan

The overview of the plan is to improve Progressive Real Estate’s social media engagement on various platforms, which will not only improve their brand awareness but also promote their current leasable unit offerings. I will work with Progressive in detailing what their unique selling proposition is related to how they stand behind their product, making long-term quality decisions with their vertically integrated business model and how this can be integrated into the social media campaign. By improving their brand awareness we can bring in new and prospective clients while developing and maintaining relationships with our followers by creating high-quality content that is tailored to a target audience. I can help them meet their social media engagement goals while I enhance my creative-thinking skills, project management skills, and develop more knowledge in marketing and the real estate industry.

Further on the design and fabrication of a novel and passive hand tremor attenuator

Parkinson’s disease is most highly recognized by tremors of the hands that occur in those afflicted with the disease. Though the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease involving motor function begin with very slight tremors of the hands, they further develop into issues such as difficulty swallowing, severe postural problems and extremely limited mobility. In this proposal, a method of reducing these tremors that appear during the early stages of the disease is developed by creating a wearable passive device that reduces vibrations of the hand and arm through the use of magnetic actuators. The proposed wearable technology has surpassed other known alternatives in selected testing scenarios while possessing a light weight of only 120 grams.

What are the needs of Yukon communities: an examination of health, housing, and behaviour – RES0054346

This project will conduct a resident survey across the Yukon to gather critical data that will be used to inform policy decisions across the Yukon in several areas. 1) Housing: gather data to find where there are the most urgent housing needs. The needs may be different from community to community; the data needs to be specific. 2) COVID-response: residents from the Yukon have been impacted by the ongoing pandemic. It is critical that relevant data is collected about the experiences of residents (e.g., mental health, personal safety) to inform response plan development.