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Vision Loss Rehabilitation – Boshra Rahimi

This internship will assist Vision Loss Rehabilitation in navigating their return to work process and ensure that they are mitigating risk for staff, clients and community. This role entails sitting on our covid-specific Health & Safety Committee with a team of dedicated professionals knowledgeable in all aspects of our rehabilitation work and human resources.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shelley Rinehart

Student:

Partner:

Vision Loss Rehabilitation Canada

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Retail trade

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Tech Impact – Alpha Behera

The company is currently focused on building a vibrant and growing Atlantic Canadian economy by using technology to unlock our region’s potential. COVID has impacted our day-to-day goals as an organization. As part of one of one of our projects, we want to create a full story around the barriers and opportunities to advancing digital transformation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dhirendra Shukla

Student:

Partner:

TechImpact

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Product Development Consultant – Avasta

Avasta Inc. is a consulting company currently providing measurement-based solution to improve the client acquisition and engagement of its clients. They use a unique methodology/algorithm to leverage unexploited data to improve their clients’ company performance. They have provided services for RBC, Brookfield, Walmart, P&G, etc. While they see a stable growth in traditional consulting services, they see a surging need of their clients in terms of online training or education services, especially during COVID times.
The incumbent will aid in the development and commercialization of Avasta’s educational products, project management, financial analysis, data analysis, desk research, general support. Basically, the intern will build their educational products from scratch by focusing on solving the following issues:
1. What will be the key potential customers and income generators?
2. With the goal identified the intern will design the product with technical support and the help of the CEO to build a prototype for our clients and adjust accordingly.

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Faculty Supervisor:

William Mitchell

Student:

Partner:

Avasta

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Build Data Pipeline for ML Applications with Kubeflow

In order to create value for the users, Dataraction needs to be able to provide insights and foster knowledge sharing and production from peer-learn activities. To do that, the ability to deploying effective machine learning applications is critical. Kubeflow will give the company the advantage with a well-structured data pipeline that can connect with many of the best machine learning tools available in the market right now.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aijun An

Student:

Partner:

Dataraction

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

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

University:

York University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

AltaML – Associate Business Analyst

We continue to build our capacity but at a slower rate to ensure that we survive the slowdown that the pandemic has created. We have focused on internal projects but are now returning to client projects as the market picks up. The Intern will research markets to understand evolving customer needs, market size, trends, and competition. They work closely with Product Management and Business Development Managers to understand how our individual customer¶s needs relate to broader market needs to help us build products that will achieve broad market success. Our future growth in wealth and job creation will scale dramatically from our work on the product side of our business.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Halek

Student:

Partner:

AltaML

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Indoor Virtual Tour and Virtual Object Display in 360 Degrees

The proposed project implements the applications of virtual view of indoor environments and objects in 360 degrees, thereby encouraging people to check the information of rooms and products online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, six objectives are proposed, each undertaken by two interns, to build a virtual view system satisfying different scenarios. With collected indoor pictures and product pictures, image-rendering and machine learning technologies, including OpenCV, Tour Into the Picture (TIP), and Unity engine, will be employed to create an interactive virtual tour system that allows user to see virtual views of indoor environments for buying a house or a product online. Completion of this project will yield both commercial and technological benefits for the partner organization, as they control the distribution and access of the proprietary technology of an online interactive virtual tour system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Di Niu;Linglong Kong

Student:

Partner:

Trendii Technology

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

The ARGO Analytics Engine

For producers of film and TV, extending a brand into the digital space can be a daunting enterprise. Estimating how successful a Twitter campaign or an Alternate Reality Game has been in fostering the proliferation and audience goodwill towards a TV or Film entity can be a frustratingly inscrutable endeavor. Even if a campaign seems to have been a critical success–the copious amounts of textual and statistical data at-hand can make it nearly impossible to find out what went right–less, what went wrong. ARGO seeks to solve this problem. With ARGO, Zeros 2 Heroes wants to produce a decision support dashboard for producers in film and television who are looking to promote or extend their property through online digital campaigns.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Bowes;Thomas Spalek

Student:

Partner:

Zeros2Heroes

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Identify MoA of the UCHT1 domain within the TAC receptor

Triumvira a, Canadian US, post series A, biotech company, working on the development of a new targeted cancer therapies. The core technology is focused on the genetic engineering of immune cells isolated from patients. This process then enables these immune cells to recognise cancer cells that otherwise are invisible to the immune system. These therapies are ideally suited for a systemic eradication of malignant tumor cells. Future refinement of this core technology requires a detailed biological understanding of the core mechanisms that drives the ability of engineered immune cells to specifically recognize and kill cancer cells. The candidate’s project focuses on research that will help Triumvira to better understand their core technology. This knowledge will is expected to enable Triumvira to further refine its core technology providing even more potent anti tumor therapies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Walid Houry

Student:

Partner:

Triumvira Immunologics

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Optimization of Oat Beverage Process Conditions for Nutrients Recovery

The demand for plant-based beverages by consumers continue to increase due to their sustainability and health benefits. Oat is one of the most promising cereals and seeds to prepare functional plant-based beverage since oat has high amount of dietary fibres and good quality proteins. Earth’s Own is one of the biggest oat beverage producers in Canada and even North America, but more research efforts are needed to increase the nutrient recovery and improve the oat beverage sensory profiles for more competitive products at home and abroad. To the end, the effects of process conditions (such as grain-to-water ratio, mechanical forces, and enzyme levels) on the nutrient recovery and sensory profiles will be understood. This fundamental knowledge will provide valuable guidance to the oat beverage production. The findings of this research could be used to create industrial guidelines that will be used in other companies in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lingyun Chen

Student:

Partner:

Earth's Own Foods

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Life Sciences (not health); Clean Technology

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

A Visual Analytics System for the Analysis of City Indicators based on Multivariate Indices

With the Regional Council’s adoption of HRM’s Social Policy Framework (2020) and the Public Safety Strategy (2017), Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) committed to advancing community safety and wellbeing as vital outcomes. To be effective, these outcomes must be measurable, and bring transparency to the impacts of municipal programs, services, and policies. Experts from various HRM Business Units convened a working group with leading researchers in social policy and data visualization and analytics at Dalhousie University to explore solutions to support this process. The resulting tool was a prototype to develop composite indices that combine sets of city indicators to represent abstract concepts, such as safety or wellbeing. The present proposal aims to advance this prototype offering more analytical power to support evaluating the impact of concrete variables (some influenced by the municipality actions) on abstract concepts (e.g., wellbeing) while adding new stakeholders (and their data sets) into the process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fernando Paulovich;Evangelos Milios

Student:

Partner:

Halifax Regional Municipality

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Public administration

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Design of real-time a localization algorithm for high-flow environments on embedded processor

The deployment of tidal turbine equipment in the Bay of Fundy can potentially impact marine life in the environment. There is a large population of harbour porpoises that can be affected by this equipment, and it is important to detect their presence and locate them. In this work, a tool to visualize harbour porpoises in real-time will be developed so that it can be readily available to visitors at the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy Visitor Center in Parsborro. For this purpose, a signal processing tool will be developed on a high-speed processor.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Francois Bousquet

Student:

Partner:

Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Population-based recurrence probability map to define the microscopic clinical target volume for salvage radiotherapy after prostatectomy (PORTRAy)

Radiotherapy is an effective method to prevent recurrence of disease after the prostate is surgically removed as part of the cancer treatment process. However, since microscopic disease is not visible by conventional imaging techniques, treatment sites are typically determined based on consensus guidelines. PSMA-PET is a novel imaging modality which is able to detect recurrences with higher sensitivity than existing techniques. We propose to build a population-based probability risk map by registering a large number of positive PSMA-PET/CT images onto a reference patient. We will also apply machine learning methods to leverage information on individual risk factor profiles and population data, which will allow us to adjust and tailor the risk map to each individual patient. In this way, radiation treatments may be better targeted to the regions at highest risk of bearing microscopic disease.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Francois Carrier;Cynthia Menard

Student:

Partner:

Centre de recherche du CHUM

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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