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Data Science: From Principle to Practice

Data science is an interdisciplinary field that combines statistics, computer science, and domain knowledge. The rise of data science has fundamentally changed how people solve problems in all kinds of industries. To fill the talent gap, SFU professional master’s program (PMP) was launched in 2014. In this Mitacs cluster project, SFU PMP will collaborate with multiple industrial partners to investigate innovative solutions to address various data science challenges in data management, model development, and application & product

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jiannan Wang;Steven Bergner;Ali Mahdavi-Amiri

Student:

Partner:

IFIVEO;Flex AI;Koan Analytics Inc.;Lantronix Inc;LongTail Financial;Caliber Data Labs;Digitalist;Xtract AI

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Pricing model from econometric perspective and visualizing promotion cannibalization effect on promotion activities

Leveraging the entirety of point of sale and loyalty data collected across a category, as well as additional socio-economic and other supporting data sources, apply statistical modelling to identify the own-price elasticity of demand and cross-price elasticity of demand at regular and promoted price points across Unilever’s portfolio within that category. Subsequently measuring the promotional cannibalization of Unilever’s temporary price reduction activities across the market to assess the promotional events with the highest return on investment and revenue optimization potential.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ricardas Zitikis

Student:

Partner:

Unilever Canada Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing; Wholesale trade

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Accelerate

Student Placement Project: Mobile Solution

Preferred Health Care Services is implementing a Blackberry scheduling and
documenting system to replace the traditional telephony system. The new technology is
envisioned to improve personal support workers and nurse managers’ business processes.
The study examines the changes in key performance indicators including the number of
missed visits, unarranged visits, duplicated (double booked) visits, data accuracy, and the
employee’s satisfaction level. From the broader perspective, the study will conduct a costbenefit
analysis and to prove/reject the recent trend of mobile technology deployment home
care sector. The study will also briefly touch upon the change management aspect since it is
extremely difficult and especially challenging for home care organizations due to many
reasons including: difficult communication due to geographically scattered frontline
practitioners, wide range of services, and larger proportion of older frontline practitioners. The
change management is the key to the successful implementation of new technological
solutions and the study will outline how the blackberry solution is to be deployed and
implemented.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Twylla Bird-Gayson

Student:

Partner:

Preferred Health Care Services

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Advanced Oxidation Process in Fresh Produce Processing: Reducing water usage, extending shelf-life and enhancing food safety

Fresh produce remains the leading cause of foodborne illness and highlighted for carrying pesticide residues. Moreover, fruit and vegetables have been highlighted as one of the leading sources of food waste, in addition to a major user of water. Currently, post-harvest washing is used as a step to remove field acquired contamination. However, both microbes and pesticides are not inactivated by washing but more distributed between batches. In addition, washed produce spoilers quicker than unwashed and the amount of water used in the process can be in the order of 4 liters per kg of product. The proposed project will overcome all these issues by developing a process that harnesses the oxidative power of chloride radicals (through a process termed Advanced Oxidation Process; AOP) to inactivate microbes and degrade pesticides while using minimal amounts of water. In a further process, the oxidative power from AOP will be applied to degrade pesticides and chlorine-consuming constituents in water. This is primary to make the washing process more effective and reduce the water usage by negating the need to keep replenishing wash tanks. Collectively both technologies will enhance the food safety of fresh produce and extend shelf-life.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Keith Warriner;Ryan Prosser;Ryan Prosser;Keith Warriner

Student:

Partner:

George Weston;Pride Pak Ltd;Clean Works

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Retail trade

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Back to Basics: A Sustainable Response to COVID-19

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments and communities revisit the conceptions of sustainability and resilience. While many of the businesses in the retail, food services, and tourism and hospitality sectors experienced a drastic drop in sales during the COVID-19 pandemic, online shopping and delivery sectors are dealing with a dramatic increase in sales and orders. Demand of local and sustainable goods are increasing as the disruption of the supply chain has impacted the accessibility and affordability of goods. In this Mitacs Accelerate internship, the UBC research team will partner with the Okanagan Lifestyle, a local business in Kelowna, examine the marketing benefits of the sustainable goods as well as to review marketing traction and interest in sustainable goods during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eric Li

Student:

Partner:

Okanagan Lifestyle

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Retail trade

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Éthique, Santé et Bien-être au travail chez les professionnels de la santé en temps de pandémie de la COVID-19

La recherche du domaine de la santé au travail démontre clairement que le stress est associé à différents troubles de santé et/ou de maladies. Dans le but de préserver la santé au travail de ses travailleurs(ses), les organisations doivent veiller à ce qu’il y ait un équilibre entre les demandes en milieu de travail (facteurs de risque) et les ressources (facteurs de protection).
Notre équipe de recherche a été mandatée par cinq (5) ordres professionnels afin de mener cette enquête qui vise à établir un portrait des facteurs de risques et de protection organisationnels qui nuisent et contribuent à la santé et au bien-être au travail des professionnel-les de la santé exerçant dans le réseau public. Les résultats obtenus, à l’aide d’un questionnaire, alimenteront la réflexion et les efforts visant à améliorer le contexte de réalisation du travail au sein de votre établissement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Manon Truchon;Mahée Gilbert-Ouimet

Student:

Partner:

Ordre professionnel des diététistes du Québec;Ordre des hygiénistes dentaires du Québec;Ordre des technologues en imagerie médicale, en radio-oncologie et en électrophysiologie médicale du Québec;Ordre professionnel des technologistes médicaux du Québec;O

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Ultraviolet inactivation of Covid-19

Many major municipalities rely on ultraviolet (UV) disinfection of their drinking water and wastewater to protect their citizens and the environment. The novel coronavirus, Covid19, has been detected in water, and may be transmitted by improperly treated wastewater and drinking water. It is important that the sensitivity of Covid19 to UV be measured, in order to ensure adequate UV disinfection. This project will develop methods to accurately assess the UV sensitivity of coronaviruses, and measure the UV sensitivity of coronaviruses in water. These data will allow non-pathogenic coronaviruses to be used as safe surrogates for assessing UV systems. The methods will be transferred to third-party labs that will use them to evaluate pathogenic Covid19 virus.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marc Aucoin

Student:

Partner:

Trojan Technologies

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Manufacturing

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Cellular inflammatory and anti-viral effects of BOLD-100, a novel therapeutic agent in development for COVID-19

Bold-100 is a promising new drug that has been studied as a treatment for cancer. Because of the way it works in cells, there is reason to believe that it may also help protect against infections with viruses like SARS-CoV2 (the cause of COVID-19). The purpose of this project is to study the effects of Bold-100 on cells derived from the human intestine, which are susceptible to SARS-CoV2 infection, to help determine the way the drug effects normal cellular functions and their response to viral infections. The results will help to define the potential of Bold-100 as an antiviral drug, as well as its potential uses for other diseases, including intestinal cancers and inflammatory bowel disease.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ted Steiner

Student:

Partner:

Bold Therapeutics

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Automated Pilot Performance Assessment

In a trend towards increasingly complex aircraft, tomorrow’s pilots must possess excellent situational awareness, problem solving, leadership and communication skills. Pilots trained for these competencies will be best equipped to handle unforeseen situations safely. In this project at Paladin AI, intern will focus on working with real flight simulator data that has been labeled by human experts. Intern will work with this data to develop new analytics techniques for inferring pilot competency. The intern will identify one or multiple markers of either good or poor pilot performance. The goal of this project is to deliver a usable proof-of-concept that can be ultimately be deployed to a production environment by Paladin AI devops team.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ioannis Mitliagkas

Student:

Partner:

Paladin AI Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Predicting demand and inventory shortages for better inventory management in health care institutions

This project aims to predict demand and inventory shortages for better inventory management in health care institutions. This will initially allow for a reduction in the expenses generated by emergency orders placed during a stock shortage. Indeed, it will be possible for the establishment to order a larger quantity of the product from the supplier or to place an order with another supplier. In a second step, placing orders at the right time based on demand forecasting will reduce out-of-stock situations but also optimize the minimum and maximum quantities in inventory.
Better inventory management through greater proactivity indirectly provides peace of mind for the staff and therefore for the patient being cared for.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ioannis Mitliagkas

Student:

Partner:

Logibec

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Optimisation de la localisation et de la répartition des dons : le cas des Banques Alimentaires du Québec

Les Banques alimentaires du Québec (BAQ) veillent au partage équitable et s’assure de mettre en commun des ressources, de l’expertise et des informations afin de répondre de façon plus efficace aux Québécois en situation de pauvreté; elles sont un acteur incontournable et reconnu comme chef de file en matière d’aide alimentaire au Québec. Ce projet vise à développer un système qui recommande des solutions aux gestionnaires en ce qui concerne deux décisions logistiques : la localisation de l’entreposage des dons de denrées et la répartition des dons entre les organismes partenaires. Ce projet permettra donc d’augmenter la résilience de la chaîne logistique des BAQ et d’optimiser la distribution des dons de denrées alimentaires dans le réseau des BAQ.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Julie Paquette;Gilles Caporossi

Student:

Partner:

Fondation de l'Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal;Banques alimentaires du Québec;Toucan Solution Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other services (except public administration)

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Detection of missing words

The software Antidote (www.antidote.info) is capable of correcting English and French corpuses. It detects thousands of types of errors. We want to add new types of correction using modules based on deep learning. The detection of missing words is a type of correction that we want to address in this internship. Here is an example of a sentence where Antidote displays a break (analysis problem), but which a deep learning model could correct:
If the project performs well, the intern will be able to try an integration of his model in our Antidote software.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ioannis Mitliagkas

Student:

Partner:

Druide Informatique

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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