Innovative Projects Realized

Development of Deep Learning-based Speech Recognition Algorithm for FPGA

Automatic speech recognition (ASR)-based services have become an indispensable part of our daily life, thanks to products such as Apple Siri, Google Home, and Amazon Alexa. More and more smart home appliances are also controlled by voice. However, most of these services rely on speech recognition and natural language understanding services running in the cloud, but this introduces delay that sometimes is not acceptable. There are also some applications where there is no WiFi or cellular network to connect to the cloud. Therefore there is a need to develop a local speech recognition system with high performance. In this project, we will develop a deep learning neural network-based speech recognition algorithm using the latest technologies that are suitable for embedded systems, such as the Transformer. We will then work with the partner company to port the algorithm into a FPGA- based System on Chip (SoC) product.

Summer Analyst

The project would involve assisting the analysts to create models to forecast metal prices in this highly uncertain and volatile environment, analyzing the business and revenue model of companies under coverage, and identifying key risks, collecting market data and analyze market conditions and the impact of COVID-19 on the sectors/companies under coverage, financial statement analysis and assist in our analysts to estimate inputs for our valuation model and helping develop sensitivity and scenario analysis to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the revenue and earnings of companies under coverage.

Fundamental Research Corp provides the highest institutional quality equity research coverage on over 415 small and micro-cap public companies. The company believes a major problem in this highly volatile stock market environment (due to COVID-19) is that investors are likely to jump into opportunities without clearly knowing or understanding the impact of this pandemic. Therefore, they have significantly expanded the research process during this period to identify all the possible short-term and long-term risks (market and company-specific) associated with an investment opportunity and inform our findings to the investment community.

Business Analyst Internship

The project asks the student to understand the gymnastic club situations based on historical and current datasets, provide effective insights or recommendations from the company data and help the company make strategic plans to ensure its revenue.
During the internship, the student is expected to use analytical softwares or tools to solve business problems, including but not limited to, building prediction models and forecasting revenue. In addition, it is also important that the student needs to interpret organized data tables or analytical results with user-friendly language, so that the organization would be able to understand and directly apply the recommendations or insights with its strategic plan. Last, the student is required to present his analysis results to academic advisors and partner organization in a weekly basis, to ensure the project progress.

The organization is expected to provide their historical and current data information to the student. After the internship, the organization would have a deeper understanding of both its financial and operational situations from a data perspective. According the analytic results provided by the student, the organization would have a clearer idea about the weakness and strengths of its current business strategy.

Marketing and Brand Strategy Intern

Mploy is a technology firm that provides mobile solutions for the hospitality industry to recruit workers faster, cheaper and easier than using traditional static job boards.

In this project, the Intern is supposed to:
Drive the launch of our new solution focused on COVID-19 contact-less recruiting
– Set specific marketing goals that align with the overall direction and business goals
– Develop and maintain digital marketing campaigns to build the sales funnel
– Track and measure outcomes of campaigns to assess effectiveness, sales, retention, and ROI with the objective of achieving channel optimization
– Create an app engagement model using cohort analysis to identify trends and new opportunities.
– Create messaging content for both digital and printed marketing materials including website content.
– Research market to identify new opportunities in other regions or verticals
– Develop business cases to support new marketing strategies, budget requests, projects, and marketing plans
– Ensure brand alignment to increase overall brand awareness and word of mouth.
– Conduct in-depth research to identify new market opportunities and consumer preferences to support campaign creations

Supply Chain Coordinator

3DQue Systems automates most FFF/FDM 3D printers to enable 24/7 unsupervised production runs from digital to ready part (removed from print bed, ready for use). Due to disrupted supply chains, there is a supply shortage for the increase of COVID-19 related medical devices and accessories. As the supply chain coordinator I will be managing the procurement and distribution of these essential medical devices and accessories. Additionally, I am in charge of streamlining the operations and improve the traceability of the operations and distribution.

Business Strategy Intern

Kranked Bikes is a manufacturer of proprietary electric motor kit systems for high-end mountain bikes. The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on our supply chain and our retail distribution development. However, the maturing ‘new normal’ has brought an unprecedented surge in ebike sales and an intern is essential to our efforts to ramp up and both refine and execute on our go-to-market strategy. The internship scope will include refining our go-to-market strategy, which is a mixed B2C and B2B approach, as well as executing on the final strategy with project management related to business development and sales campaigns.

Business Development Intern

I will be working with Krohmal Consulting. Krohmal Consulting is a boutique management consulting business offering professional services to public and private
sector clients. The company is weathering the Covid19 storm and trying to capitalize on the opportunities by creating a Covid recovery
consulting offering which would help the business ramp up while supporting local clients with professional services they
would need to restore full operations.
Most of my work will be focused on business development which includes:
– reviewing the existing Business Development practices and provide recommendations
– designing a sales strategy aligned with environmental conditions
– researching business opportunities, respond to RFQs, RFPs
– driving sales pipeline, presenting opportunities to company management and potential clients
I will also be working with clients, focused mainly on:
– supporting delivery consultants in day-to-day consulting work
– working directly with clients to provide business consulting services aligned to the scope of Krohmal Consulting
– preparing high quality deliverables
– identifying opportunities for cross-selling business services

Business Development & Strategy Intern

Background
The C.O.D.E. Initiative’s main operations rely on the personal understanding created between each student and their tutor. Being physically present with students is a crucial part of creating this bond. While the health and safety of our students is of utmost importance to us, we recognize that the community built around our services provided solace for many families. The normalcy and routine that is integral to the well-being of many of our students has undoubtedly been disrupted. Consequently, previously planned expansion efforts in our organization have also been halted, hindering peaking growth. Current team efforts have been refocused on adaptation and recovery with regards to the pandemic, its limitations, and its long-term aftermath. As part of our team you will be an internal catalyst for these changes, in transitioning towards other models of business, while maintaining the neuro-divergent specific principles of our model.

Anticipated project activities
The C.O.D.E. Initiative is searching for a full or part-time business development and strategy intern to assist in the upcoming development phase. Your position would see that you report directly to the President of the organization in order to develop a strategic plan for the 2021 to 2022 growth period.

Development of a “Jennic Wireless to Ethernet” Gateway Embedded System

The proposed R&D is a part of larger project currently developing by Unity Integration Corporation on
intelligent lighting systems. This project is consisting of different parts such as wireless motion
detectors, wireless ambient light sensors, control systems, predictive software and web-based user
interface. The proposed R&D mostly focuses on the development of a gateways embedded system
which is an essential part for setting up a wireless sensor network. The gateway is a bridge between
the internal network between the endpoints and the internet. For communicating with the central
monitoring unit, the routers and endpoints should first be able to communicate with the gateway, and
the gateway is responsible for sending or receiving the necessary information data between the
endpoints and the central processing unit. The development of a gateway which can conver

Market Research Intern

My role is as a market research intern at Groupanizer, a SAAS company that currently provides services to the non-profit sector. Currently, most of their customers are choirs, who are struggling due to the coronavirus pandemic. Therefore, it is my role to investigate new possible markets for Groupanizer to enter.

Data Intern

The project proposes to collect information on manufactures across Ontario in all different industries. This allows for governments and institutions alike to understand and have an idea on what manufactures are not only producing but what they are capable of, especially in current COVID-19 times where governments are trying to understand where they can source essential manufacturing and who they can go to to pivot their manufacturing. The benefit for myself, the intern, I will gain experience in working with real data and being able to organize and draw important connections, I will also be able to expand my connections and learn about many different industries. The partner organization will benefit as they will be able to more effectively and efficiently organize data and better act on the implications of that data from the skills that I have learned in my program thus far.

Skill – An AI-generation resume standard

Skill is an open-source standard format for resume writing that is optimized to be processed by AI systems. It can remove the hassle and stress of fully expressing themselves from job seekers and eliminate the hassle of finding the best candidate from employers. As AI systems grow more popularity in different fields, Skill will provide the required tool for re-defining the hiring process with the help of artificial intelligence. The format can easily be used in modern search engines and become the first step toward an AI-based hiring platform, where an AI system, will scan thousands of resumes with hundreds of fields to find the prefect fit for an organization.