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Understanding and designing the female pelvic anatomy, a measuring device and an intravaginal device using 3-dimensional modeling techniques and Artificial Intelligence

Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) is a condition 1 in every 10 women is diagnosed with. The current non-surgical treatment for POP is an intravaginal device called pessary which has a 40% failure rate as its shape is not fitted to the female anatomy. Poor pessary design and performance arises from the limited data that is studied on the pelvic anatomy. The current research project will study available imaging data using Machine Learning algorithms to facilitate and automate the process for assessing and treating POP. The obtained outcome will be used to design a pessary that can be customized for each patient. This information will be incorporated in the POP assessments that FemTherapeutics perform in a clinical setting for an improved prolapse treatment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shiv Prasher;Thomas Fevens;Javad Dargahi

Student:

Partner:

FemTherapeutics Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Manufacturing

University:

Concordia University; McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Feasibility of the Get A-Head® App for Clinical Psychology Research and Training in Emotion Focused Family Therapy

Due to COVID-19, adoption of and investment in technological solutions for remote mental health services (teletherapy) is rapidly increasing. While the evidence-base for teletherapy for individuals is robust, teletherapy research with families has been limited. Further, uptake of teletherapy by clinical training programs has been slow and knowledge about the feasibility of using these interfaces for remote live supervision has not yet been established. This pilot study will assess the feasibility of training student-clinicians in the delivery of Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) through the Get A-Head® app. This study will follow two families over the course of 12 weeks (two weeks pre-intervention, eight weeks of the EFFT intervention, and two weeks post-intervention). The process and results of the study are expected to generate critical feedback and preliminary results about the feasibility of using the Get A-Head® app as a tool for providing family therapy and training student-clinicians.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dillon Thomas Browne

Student:

Partner:

Get A-Head Inc.

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Détection des Deltas P en plongée sous-marine aux abords desbarrages hydro-électriques à partir de l’Effet Doppler

Les interventions des plongeurs-scaphandriers aux abords des barrages hydro-électriques nécessitent la plus grande vigilance afin d’assurer leur sécurité. Au-delà des difficultés ordinaires rencontrées en plongée, les interventions aux abords de ces structures présentent de réels risques de courants puissants et très localisés dus au phénomène de Delta P (différence de pression). Celui-ci est capable d’emporter et de plaquer le plongeur contre la paroi du barrage. Une fois pris au piège, il lui est quasiment impossible de s’en sortir seul, ce qui en fait la principale cause de décès dans ce secteur. Le projet consiste à étudier l’application des nouvelles technologies récentes utilisé en océanographie (Effet Doppler) dans la détection des courants dangereux afin de sécuriser les interventions des plongeurs-scaphandriers.

Dans l’éventualité où la technologie s’avère applicable, le savoir obtenu favoriserait le développement et le maintien de l’expertise chez IMAR. Ceci devrait conduire à un développement de produit avec un partenaire.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean Brousseau;Daniel Bourgault

Student:

Partner:

Innovation Maritime

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education; Professional, scientific and technical services; Transportation and warehousing

University:

Université du Québec à Rimouski

Program:

Accelerate

Système aéroporté sans pilote de détection de cibles humaines dans l’eau

Le projet de détection et de reconnaissance de personnes sur une étendue d’eau permettra de minimiser les pertes humaines en intervenant le plus rapidement possible lors d’une situation d’urgence. Le temps de survie d’une personne à l’eau est très limité, sous certaines conditions quelques minutes et il varie en fonction du port de ceinture ou costume de flottaison, de la température de l’eau et de la condition physique de la personne. Il est donc crucial de retrouver rapidement les personnes dans une telle situation. Le projet vise à utiliser un appareil sans pilote muni d’une caméra très haute résolution embarquée et dans laquelle un algorithme permettra la détection et l’identification de cibles humaines à la mer comme au niveau terrestre. L’optimisation et la planification de l’itinéraire de vols et des zones de balayage est également une composante majeure du projet.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Giovanni Beltrame

Student:

Partner:

Xpert Solutions Technologiques;SATWII Solutions

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Disaster Recovery and Cloud Bursting as a Cloud Service

Cloud computing has revolutionized the way organizations consume computing power as a service.
Infrastructure as a Service allows a company to move away from purchasing computing, networking,
and storage resources to purchasing from a service provider in a public cloud. This project will
research and develop off-site encrypted virtual machine storage and disaster recovery planning solution
built using public cloud infrastructure. The solution offers Recovery as a Service that medium-sized
enterprises utilize primarily for the ability to backup and restore virtual machines for server and virtual
desktop images. The research and development team will working closely with company expert in the
area of cloud computing to advance this research topic and implementation of the solution.
We are developing a solution in the area of cloud computing disaster recovery and off-site encrypted
file storage for hybrid clouds in an enterprise environment. A full analysis will be conducted on
applying cloud computing platform and infrastructure in enterprise IT and the impact of…TOBECONT’D…

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Faculty Supervisor:

Oliver Schulte

Student:

Partner:

Fusionpipe Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Putting the science of literacy into the hands of Canadians

Ensuring high levels of literacy for all children is now more important than ever. However, the Canadian landscape of literacy is quickly changing. For instance, Canadian families come from increasingly multilingual and multicultural backgrounds and the use of technology and digital media in literacy is growing rapidly. In this Mitacs project, we have partnered with Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation to answer important questions as to how parents can best support the development of their children’s reading skills. In particular, our project focuses on a deep evaluation of scientific evidence to illuminate key ways in which parents’ reading related knowledge shapes early literacy experiences in the home and impacts children’s reading achievement, both as they read on paper and in digital formats. We will mobilize this knowledge into bite-sized scientific briefings that will be disseminated broadly by the Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation through their social media channels and wide community networks.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hélène Deacon

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Impression 3D de composites à base de résidus Industriels Forestiers (RIF) et de polymères

Ce projet de recherche crée une synergie novatrice et inédite entre les secteurs des arts et du génie. À partir de cette synergie, ce projet a pour objectif général de repenser et de redéfinir le paradigme de fabrication d’objet en impression 3D ainsi que des préconceptions liées à la production et à la gestion des Résidus Industriels Forestiers (RIF, i.e. boue papetière et la cendre de bois). Les stagiaires s’engage dans la réalisation des objectifs spécifiques suivants : 1) valoriser les boues de désencrage et cendres de bois dans l’impression 3D de matériaux et d’oeuvres; 2) valoriser les matériaux composites RIF et polymères en fabrication numérique par l’utilisation d’outils de modélisation 3D; 3) Optimiser les paramètres de mise en forme et les propriétés des biocomposites par impression 3D; 4) comparer les procédés d’impression 3D au laser et celui par dépôt fondu et optimiser leurs paramètres.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Beauregard;Ahmed Koubaa;Mohamad Saad

Student:

Partner:

Chantiers de Chibougamau Ltée;Rayonier A.M. Canada S.E.N.C. - Tembec

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Accelerate

A scalable data science platform to support intelligent freight services and logistics

ShipHaul Logistics aims at developing an Intelligent Freight Services platform towards the digitization, integration and optimization of freight management. The proposed project is the first step to provide the foundations and infrastructure and kickstart the development of the envisioned platform. To this end, we will emphasize evaluation, testing and comparative studies concerning the efficiency and capabilities of various software solutions for the constituent modules of the proposed platform. This will enable informed decisions, both on an architectural and on an implementation level, to ensure the best development choices for the data science and the intelligent services platforms.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marios-Eleftherios Fokaefs;Foutse Khomh;Quentin Cappart;Maha Ben Ali;Samira Keivanpour

Student:

Partner:

ShipHaul Logistics Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Transportation and warehousing

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Hardware/Software Codesign Methodology for High Performance On-Board Processing applied on the Artificial Intelligence of Space

The result of this project (which will be demonstrated by a use case) can make health equipments to be used outside of hospitals. This is achieved by reducing the computation cost of running Deep Learning models by 3rd party tools and use our accelerator solution to run the size reduced and optimized model. This greatly helps to lower the barrier for using costly equipments and make them more affordable and reachable to people in need of these equipments.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yvon Savaria;Guy Bois

Student:

Partner:

Space Codesign Systems

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Design of a Route Generating Algorithm for Demand-Responsive Public Bus Services

Blaise Transit seeks to grant public transit agencies the ability to replan their bus lines in real-time based on requests made by riders using the Blaise app. The main objective of this project is to design and implement algorithms ensuring this business goal can be achieved, namely by continuously improving Blaise’s current routing algorithm.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michel Gendreau;Bernard Gendron

Student:

Partner:

Blaise Transit

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Transportation and warehousing

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Business Operations Intern

The Business Operations Intern will work on:
• Creating and maintaining automated reports and dashboards
• Developing systems to audit and improve data quality
• Work with CS stakeholders to develop experiments, implement new strategies and optimize our CS processes.

Learning opportunities will include:
• Learn how to produce & maintain automated reporting in sheets
• Gain experience in navigating and building reports in Salesforce
• Develop problem solving skills, and gain experience taking a project from ideation to delivery
• Learn basic SQL skills and the fundamentals of data warehousing

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Helsley

Student:

Partner:

Bench Accounting

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Étude d’un système de portes palières automatiques pour le réaménagement de stations de métro

Les portes palières sont des portes automatiques situées généralement en bordure des voies le long des quais des stations de métro, pour séparer physiquement le quai des voitures du train. Les portes palières sont de plus en plus intégrées directement en amont de la conception des nouvelles stations de métro, ou alors elles sont rétrofitées pour pouvoir s’adapter aux quais des stations de métro déjà existantes. Ces portes jouent un rôle essentiel dans l’automatisation des lignes de métro, et sont extrêmement efficaces pour réduire les risques d’accidents de voiries, car elles empêchent les suicides, les accidents et les chutes d’objets pouvant causer des interruptions de service. Cette technologie relativement jeune est de plus en plus utilisée dans le monde; les continents européens et asiatiques sont les pionniers du domaine, avec par exemple les lignes de Lille (France) et Singapour entièrement équipées depuis les années 90. À ce titre, le présent projet vise à développer un système de portes palières afin d’équiper les lignes de métro de Montréal.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Alexandre Saussié;Sofiane Achiche

Student:

Partner:

DOORspec

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate