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Pan-disability COVID-19 data leadership and coordination initiative

The Canadian Autism Spectrum Disorder Alliance (CASDA) was created to develop and implement a comprehensive National Autism Strategy (NAS) to addresses critical gaps in funding and policies which are preventing autistic individuals and their families from exercising their equal rights as Canadians. COVID-19 has created additional challenges for families across Canada that must be taken into account as we set policies moving forward. CASDA will collect information, resources, and surveys specifically relevant for autistic people and their families in light of the COVID-19 crisis and make it available in one accessible location (the COVID-19 Navigation Guide web page). CASDA will also meet regularly with leaders from disability organizations and researchers to encourage collaboration and ensure that the most relevant and evidence-based information is being shared. The information curated will be utilized when writing federal government policy recommendations to suggest concrete ways to support families now and following the pandemic.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan Stevenson

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Autism Spectrum Disorder Alliance

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

The University of Western Ontario; Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Modelling Potential Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on Fish Habitat Offsets

A computer model will be used to simulate the impacts of sea-level rise on a tidal wetland in the Fraser River that is yet to be constructed. This research will provide project stakeholders with a better understanding of how resilient the proposed tidal wetland may be, given different possible sea-level rise scenarios. Results will be used to develop an adaptive framework that will lay out a course of action to best maintain the tidal wetland given different future sea-level rise scenarios. The results will have important implications for tidal wetland enhancement and restoration projects in the Fraser River. The outcome of this project will increase the effectiveness of the design process in future tidal wetland stewardship initiatives.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shawn Chartrand;Craig Orr

Student:

Partner:

First Nations Fisheries Legacy Fund

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Simulating consumer demand and automaker compliance under climate regulation: Developing the Automaker-consumer Model

The overall objective for this project is to support the research of one PhD student to advance the methods for modelling energy-climate policies, a field in which START in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at SFU is one of the leading research units in the country and in which Navius Research Incorporated is the leading Canadian consulting firm. The project focuses on developing a novel technology adoption model (AUM) and demonstrating its applicability by using it to model a Zero-Emissions Vehicle sales mandate in Canada. The internship will allow the student to refine and validate a key component of the AUM model (the consumer choice component) and to validate AUM by comparing it to Navius’ gTech model – under the guidance of leading modellers in the field. In turn, Navius will learn about the intern’s modeling techniques, which will improve their ability to provide climate transport policy analysis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonn Axsen

Student:

Partner:

Navius Research

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Home Automation and Family Finder Mobile Application and Platform

This project will be comprised of exploratory research as well as independent
research with various mobile location based technologies. The first component
of the project will involve working with an existing home automation platform
called iControl (www.icontrol.com). The second component of the project will be
the development of a “Family Finder” mobile application that interacts with the
Guardly platform. Currently. iControl’s home automation system is not aware of
the location of its users. Guardly and Simran’s role will be to integrate some
ambient location proximity based awareness to the iControl system. For
example, when an iControl enabled “OpenHome” notices that one of its users is
within a certain proximity of the home, a notification can be “pushed” to the
user’s device. From there, the user will be given a list of options they can
perform remotely on their home. The list would include such items such as
“Unlock the front door” or “Is anyone else home?”…

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eyal de Lara

Student:

Partner:

Guardly Corp

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Climate Finance and Youth Unemployment for COVID19 Recovery

The COVID19 crisis has had an immense impact in loss of employment across nations and sectors. Youth are one of the most impacted demographic groups as job security has become more precarious. With a main objective of addressing youth unemployment in recovery packages while remaining committed to climate progress, this project proposes a quantitative and qualitative research methodology to analyze the policy recommendations and financial figures found in economic recovery packages and policies. This research aims to reveal how governments can successfully use public funding, namely through economic recovery packages and climate finance to catalyze youth employment potentially through education and training, while simultaneously accelerating progress on climate goals.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Olaf Weber

Student:

Partner:

Youth Climate Lab

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Digital Distribution and Online Resources for e-Learning

This research will help VUCAVU.com, a non-profit online streaming platform for independent Canadian film and video artworks, determine how best to serve a widening range of users and partners given growing interest prompted by COVID-19 restrictions. The primary focus will be on educational stakeholders who need online access to audio-visual resources due to significant expansion of remote-learning programs. Other users to be included in the research include arts organizations who are engaged in or need access to online programming and presentation solutions to continue their activities. From this research, we will establish best practices for the media arts sector and sustainable working models that serve not only the needs of VUCAVU.com’s users but also ensure fair compensation for the creators and rights holders of artworks on streaming platforms. This will ultimately contribute to the financial viability, resilience, and overall success of the VUCAVU platform.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Zryd

Student:

Partner:

VUCAVU

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Agricultural Anomaly Detection using Temporal Dynamics of Remote Sensing Data

This project is about using artificial intelligence to interpret agricultural remote sensing data. We will develop new means to integrate repeated imagery data of targeted agricultural fields to pinpoint agronomically significant anomalies (e.g., water or nutrient stress, crop pathology, weeds, etc.) and provide field managers easy to follow recommendations guiding development of the most cost effective plans to treat these anomalies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Viacheslav Adamchuk

Student:

Partner:

Horoma AI Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Validation Techniques for an Application Program Interface for Artificial Intelligence Agents Operating on an Internet of Things

This research project will aid in the creation of safe networks of wireless devices, such as security cameras. Computer software using artificial intelligence will watch the networks for problems with the devices or misuses of the networks. In particular, this project will discover ways to ensure that the networks are compatible with the right kind of artificial intelligence software. Smart Talk Beacon, the partner organization, will be creating the protocols for the networks and the artificial intelligence software in order to make sure that both the software and the networks are compatible with each other. They will benefit from this project because it will help them make networks safer, and more secure with the assistance of artificial intelligence software.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Howard Hamilton

Student:

Partner:

Smart Talk Beacon

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

Youth Engagement in Social Enterprise and Co-operative Development: Supporting Economic Adaptation in Rural Communities in Atlantic Canada in Context of Covid 19

Communities and regions throughout Canada have just been hit with a bomb that is a major threat multiplier: Covid 19. Across the country, rural municipalities that were already struggling economically are now struggling even more with how they should move forward, and support economic recovery and stabilization.
This research project will focus on how to rapidly engage youth in social enterprise, community enterprise and the co-operative model as a means of helping to rebuild and strengthen the economies of their communities in the context of Covid 19 and its aftermath.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Corbett

Student:

Partner:

Co-operative Enterprise Council of New Brunswick

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Acadia University

Program:

Accelerate

Immunotyping of COVID-19 patient sera using novel protein complementation-based assays

In order to help deal with COVID-19 pandemic, there is an urgent need for development of fast, reliable, and sensitive tests that will be capable of detecting IgG and IgM proteins directly in people’s blood. Our novel test for detection of IgG and IgM proteins in the blood offers several major advantages compared to other tests currently on the market: (i) highly quantitative; (ii) compatible to large scale investigation; (iii) fast performance; (iv) limited procedures; (v) small volume of blood sample required; (vi) no need for special equipment beside a common plate reader, and (vii) no need for special training for operators. This test can be used not only for clinical testing but also for large scale epidemic investigations. Moreover, once the framework has been set up, the same strategy can also be applied to monitor other infectious diseases. Our collaboration with Cyclica will greatly expand this work by allowing us to employing predictive modeling of the relevant protein-protein interactions, such as predict viral S protein-neutralizing compounds.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Igor Stagljar

Student:

Partner:

Cyclica

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Response for People who are Marginalized

The current public health emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we socialize with eachother, how we access health care, and our economic conditions over a short period of time. For people who are marginalized, these changes may cause decreases in income, loss of social support and community connections, unstable home environments, more substance use withdrawal and overdose, and growing mental health concerns. Some responses to the pandemic, like physical distancing and financial challenges, are likely to last for months. The Government and non-governmental agencies have started programs and services to meet the needs of people who are marginalized but we do not know whether or how these are working. Our proposal will look at urgent needs to make sure that new investments are prioritized to areas of greatest impact, quickly identify and lower unintended harms, and target novel approaches that should be scaled-up. We will use mixed methods and work closely with communities in Toronto to identify and evaluate programs and to develop recommendations that will address the needs and improve the health and well-being of people experiencing marginalization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ahmed Bayoumi

Student:

Partner:

Centre of Learning & Development

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Optimization of cloud computing usage cost through artificial Intelligence Techniques

Cloud computing allows consumers to reduce the costs associated with the purchase and maintenance of computing infrastructure, platform and software resources by exploiting on-demand resource provisioning and pay-per-use payment models. Although, cloud computing has offered significant benefits to the IT indistry, the research on cloud computing is currently at its infancy, with many issues still to be addressed. In this project, we will investigate current OpenStack based cloud computing services and state-of -the-art Artificial Intelligence and search-based techniques to research and develop an analytical engine, based on our previous work, for improving cost efficiencies and optimizations in cloud resource consumption. A full analysis will be conducted on applying Artificial Intelligence and search-based techniques on cloud computing platform and infrastructure in enterprise IT and the impact of business units within the organization. Recommendations for appropriate enterprise sofware license selection in combination with underlying cloud compute infrastructure, flagging high cloud data transfer…

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ali Mesbah

Student:

Partner:

Fusionpipe Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

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