Innovative Projects Realized

Analytics Strategist – DOUBL Manufacturing Ltd

DOUBL is a start-up retailer that aims to provide women with a customizable bra by taking exact body measurements through advanced 3D image technology. Our perfectly fitting bra will provide all day comfort, allowing the consumer to focus on what’s important in their everyday rather than on their physical discomfort. This increase in comfort has been shown to correlate with confidence which can be a major barrier to women in the professional workforce. This research project, that will be undertaken by our intern, will allow for DOUBL to conduct market research and complete an in-depth product assessment to ensure a successful brand launch. The project will include conducting a thorough analysis of women’s current pain points found in standard market bras by extrapolating data from customer reviews. Furthermore, the research project will include defining a comprehensive brand and product positioning strategy, as well as developing our revenue and costing model. A well-fitting bra should not be a luxury, the lingerie industry has been neglecting female comfort and has been stagnant with regards to innovation and technological progression.

Business Analyst Co-op

Our business has very much been impacted by the pandemic but we have continued to maintain strong operations during the past
few months. While revenues have dropped significantly, with the help of government subsidies and a committed team, we have been able to keep our employees with jobs and provide them a sense of job security. With restrictions easing and things turning around, we are in a critical stage to start fresh and get creative to generate new sales and business opportunities. Having an intern would provide significant support and value to our team to help continue building our brand and develop new business strategies with a unique young lens. They would provide their expertise and hard work ethic on projects and data analysis to support our core team.

During the pandemic we were forced to innovate and think outside of our standard products. We launched a limited edition “Work from home” product line to continue generating new sales and support fellow employees who are working from home. We are currently prototyping another new product for our corporate customers but looking into a potential crowdfunding project to launch it.

Hybridity Media’s Circles Software Design and Interface Research,Smartphone interface design research and development. Aga Kahn Museum OpeningVisual Design Research for Performance Installation;

Hybridity Media’s Circles, is a user-friendly software application. With motion senor
technology and light projections, it causes the audience to become the art by painting a visual
portrait on a screen using their dynamic body movements.
Hybridity’s design of the Aga Khan Museum opening , using our signature interactive art
installation techniques, is an opportunity to fuse a thousand years of early history with the
future of electronic artistry.
Push and Pull is Hybridity’s epitome of play and experimentation. The user controls the music
and the projections by dancing and moving about. Bringing it to the Vancouver International
Children’s Festival is a chance for us to model our prototype for our choicest audience yet.
Through the development of these projects, Hybridity Media will research and develop
projection mapping and interactivity through sensor-based technologies like Microsoft Kinect,
in an installation setting , allowing for new artistic visions enabled through innovative forms of
audience engagement.
We will use the three projects as case studies for…TOBECONT’D…

Business Strategy Internship: Advanced Reporting

As an online business, Spärkel relies on data to adapt and improve all business strategies. Covid-19 forced many retailers and competitors to expedite their investments in online capabilities. This poses a challenge to Spärkel’s competitiveness. Using the Advanced Reporting Intern will allow the company to gain better insight into the performance of business strategies. In turn, this will allow the company to quickly adapt to the changing retail landscape. Sourcing and organizing sales, marketing, finance, and service data is crucial to the growth of the business. This information, along with research conducted as part of the project will play a crucial role in building international expansion plans.

Business Strategy Internship: Marketing & PR

The covid-19 pandemic has greatly affected SpÃrkel’s supply chain. Slower manufacturing in China and busy shipping routes will make stock-outs and fluctuating supply levels common for the foreseeable future. This is pushing SpÃrkel to adapt and invest in long term marketing strategies such as Public relations and influencer marketing for which the intern will research best practices and implement strategies. This project will allow SpÃrkel to build a stronger community of users, which will decrease their reliance on advertising and improve the resilience of the business overall.

Hybridity Media’s Circles Software Development and Research; Agha Khan Museum opening, Light Based Interactive Research in LED technology andin experimentation with Ambient Video and Interactivity

Hybridity Media’s Circles, is a user-friendly software application. With motion senor
technology and light projections, it causes the audience to become the art by painting a visual
portrait on a screen using their dynamic body movements
Hybridity’s design of the Aga Khan Museum opening , using our signature interactive art
installation techniques, is an opportunity to fuse a thousand years of early history with the
future of electronic artistry.
Push and Pull is Hybridity’s epitome of play and experimentation. The user controls the music
and the projections by dancing and moving about. Bringing it to the Vancouver International
Children’s Festival is a chance for us to model our prototype for our choicest audience yet.
Through the development of these projects, Hybridity Media will research and develop
projection mapping and interactivity through sensor·based technologies like Microsoft Kinect,
in an installation setting , allowing for new artistic visions enabled through innovative forms of
programming architecture.
We will use the three projects as case studies for…TOBECONT’D…

Vertical Market Expansion Lead

Now, Mploy hopes to expand its business scope in the education industry by helping schools find the best and most suitable employees, while helping teachers and professors find the best schools for work. Mploy is currently looking to expand solutions to support a new vertical market in Mexico, which focuses on recruiting teachers for 50,000 private schools in Mexico. Internship will analyze the education market in Mexico and other countries in North America, including recruitment process, platform competitors and other market analysis,, and research the best path for vertical market expansion.

Outreach Coordinator

For the next few months, the Social Diversity for Children Foundation (SDC) is looking to enhance the lives of as many children with disabilities as possible, due to the absence of traditional support systems for neurodiverse children during this COVID-19 pandemic. Since a large part of SDC’s initiatives depends on community partners, the Outreach Coordinator is a pivotal role that bridges the divide to form deep and meaningful relationships with local businesses, other charitable organizations, and the government. The key responsibilities of the intern would be grant planning and research, grant proposal development and reporting, community outreach, and donor relations. They would be responsible for working with our staff to communicate with potential donors, organizations, and government entities to secure new opportunities that would benefit the organization.

Noise-aware wearable speech enhancement system

This project aims to design an embedded system to enhance human speech in noisy industrial environments to boost automatic speech recognition (ASR) performances. Speech recognition is desirable for workers to log information in the system without using their hands, which improves productivity significantly. In this project, the system will learn to remove the ambient noise using machine learning and an array of microphones to boost the speech recognition performance.

Investigation of Enhanced Superplastic Behaviour of AA5083 Aluminum Sheet for Vehicle Weight Reduction

Large automotive body panels are currently manufactured by heating aluminum sheets and pressurizing them into a die. However, this superplastic forming process requires long cycle times to avoid tearing the sheet. Preliminary work has demonstrated that by applying small pressure oscillations in addition to the increasing base line pressure a significant increase in the formability of superplastic alloys can be achieved. This research will consist of experimentally applying small oscillations to AA5083 sheet specimens pulled in tension. The objective of this investigation is to determine the ranges of amplitude and frequency of the superimposed oscillation that maximize the sheet formability. The conditions that optimize the sheet formability will ultimately be applied to industrial processes in order to reduce process time and improve part quality. It is anticipated that this research will help to further reduce vehicle weight and associated manufacturing costs.

HI-DSR: Hyperspectral Images enhancement via Deep Sparse Representation model

The current non-destructive and fast method of hyperspectral imaging technology are used for different application from remote sensing to medical imaging and food processing. Due to the nature of acquired data which are massive as well as physical consideration depend on the type of application, the careful, fast and accurate data analysis is mandatory to accelerate the usage of HSI technology. To cope with the type of HSI data in which the sparsity assumption is applicable, this project aims to address the HSI data representation though the sparse problem under deep learning approach. Eventually, the research project will provide possible unique feature extraction spatially/spectrally to give more accurate/realistic results but provable in the sense of sparsity.

FiX – Flash-in-XNA (Xbox New Architecture)

V7 is seeking to advance its innovative rapid prototyping tool FiX (Flash-in-XNA) – a core piece of its game
engine toolkit for Xbox360, PC, and Windows 7 Phone platforms. The tool allows designers and artists to build
assets in Flash/Actionscript and bring them into an XNA platform.