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Algorithme décisionnel intelligent pour systèmes énergétiques

La consommation énergétique des bâtiments représente à elle seule près de 40% de la consommation énergétique mondiale, et plus de 30% des émissions annuelles de gaz à effet de serre. Dans cet ordre d’idée, l’optimisation du contrôle des chauffages, de la ventilation et de la climatisation (CVC) représente un enjeu majeur pour le secteur énergétique actuel. Le présent projet met en place un système de contrôle automatisé à base d’intelligence artificielle, spécialement entraîné par renforcement positif sur des données en temps réel et par rapport à l’impact de ses décisions. Ceci permet d’une part d’optimiser le comportement de tout équipement de CVC, peu importe sa nature, sa technologie ou de ses spécificités; d’autre part de présenter une adaptation continue au changement dans son environnement à la suite de son instauration. Le projet bénéfique pour l’environnement et le développement durable présente un intérêt autant pour les distributeurs électriques, que pour les institutions publiques, les clients privés et les industriels.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fabian Bastin;François Bouffard

Student:

Partner:

BrainBox AI

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancement of Wearable Textiles by Living Biofilms

“Smart” clothing that responds to the wearer offers compelling advantages over today’s inert clothing. By integrating living cells into the textiles that make up our clothing, we can endow them with these “smart” properties. This includes a shirt that begins to smell like flowers when soaked in sweat, pants that “self-heal” after an accidental tear, or industrial uniforms that detect and actively break down toxins. Lululemon and McGill scientists, working together, are aiming to create some of these wearables by growing living films of engineered bacteria on textiles. These bacteria, while completely harmless to humans, can endow textiles with many advanced properties that would otherwise be impossible or highly impractical to implement. These innovations promise to position Canada’s leading universities and corporations at the cutting edge of this exciting technology and open the door to a completely new class of consumer products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Noemie-Manuelle Dorval Courchesne

Student:

Partner:

Lululemon

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Biotechnology; Life Sciences (not health); Nanotechnology

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Apprentissage et efficacité des équipes de travail

Les équipes de travail sont omniprésentes dans le milieu de la santé. Des acteurs souvent dotés d’expertises distinctes et complémentaires doivent collaborer afin d’innover, d’offrir des soins de qualité ou d’implanter des changements organisationnels. Toutefois, leur succès n’est pas garanti et les conséquences sur la santé des patients peuvent être néfastes. Étant donné la complexité de leurs tâches et le rythme effréné auquel se multiplient les connaissances scientifiques et techniques, ces équipes doivent être capables d’apprendre. Dans le cadre de ce projet de recherche de type quantitatif et multiniveau, nous souhaitons identifier les comportements d’apprentissage qui contribuent le plus fortement à différentes dimensions de l’efficacité des équipes de travail (ex. : innovation et performance) et à celle de leurs membres (ex. : performance et développement professionnel). Nous tentons également d’identifier plusieurs antécédents de ces comportements d’apprentissage et d’évaluer l’influence exercé par les dynamiques d’équipe, l’environnement de travail et les caractéristiques des membres d’équipes dans ces relations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vincent Rousseau;Jean-François Harvey

Student:

Partner:

Fondation CHU Sainte-Justine

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Micro-Histories of Transnational Humanitarian Aid: Co-Creation of Knowledge, Policy, and Education Materials

This project will involve the research and production of micro-histories of non-profit humanitarian organizations based in Canada. By examining small moments in the foundation and work of these organizations, our goal is to contribute to a better understanding of the role of Canadian civil society organizations in international humanitarian programs. Our partners work in a variety of sectors (from refugees to resource extraction-based violence) and in a variety of countries (from Lebanon to DR Congo). By partnering for MITACS Accelerate, we will be able to fund high level research that explores how work in these seemingly disparate contexts influences and informs one another while strengthening Canada’s role as a humanitarian nation. The ultimate goal is that these micro-histories will provide the foundation for policy development work at a national level as well as operational work at the organizational level.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dominique Marshall

Student:

Partner:

Latin American Working Group;World University Service of Canada;Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan;IMPACT;Oxfam Québec

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Feasibility of combining monolithically integrated silicon photonics with low cost, high performance, non-hermetic surface-mount technology (SMT) packaging

This project aims at experimentally validating the commercial viability of a new silicon photonics design which provides state of the art monolithic integration of various CMOS control electronics and BiCMOS high speed RF drive electronics which may be combined with high bandwidth non-hermetic SMT packages capable of withstanding standard high volume solder reflow processes. Combining these technologies and their commercialization will have a huge impact on the size and cost of optical communications equipment and serve as a stepping stone in developing technologies for use in future board-to-board and chip-to-chip optical communications in a wide array of industries such as communications, military, and super-computing. The aforementioned research activities will help support ADVA’s plan in new products development by exploring their commercialization feasibility.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Plant

Student:

Partner:

ADVA Optical Networking

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of the Global Matrix 4.0 Physical Activity Report Card Grades for Children and Youth

Physical inactivity is a growing global health crisis, with childhood physical inactivity being of particular concern. The Global Matrix 4.0 Physical Activity Report Cards for Children and Youth is an initiative aimed at promoting global childhood physical activity through international collaborations. The goal of this project is to further the global promotion of childhood physical activity by contributing to the development of the Global Matrix 4.0. To achieve this goal the intern will create documents detailing the development process methods of the Global Matrix 4.0, develop an evaluation protocol and related documents for the Global Matrix 4.0, support communication between leaders and Report Card teams, and create resource documents for countries registering for participation in the Global Matrix 4.0. The partner organization, the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance, is the organizer of the Global Matrix 4.0 and will benefit directly from the productivity associated with the intern’s project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rachel Burns

Student:

Partner:

Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Metamorphic Testing of Deep Neural Networks

Nowadays, we are witnessing a wide adoption of Machine learning (ML) models in many software systems. They are even being tested in safety-critical systems, thanks to recent breakthroughs in deep learning and reinforcement learning. Bombardier, a world leader company in the domain of aerospace have started integrating deep learning models in its products, systems and processes design used for certification and homologation. Although these ML models can reach high accuracy within their training data distributions, recent studies have shown that they can be very brittle. Hence, they should be tested adequately. However, because of the absence of a reference oracle, it is very challenging to reason about the behavior of a Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and hence to test it. Novel testing techniques are needed both during model engineering and deployment phases, to guarantee the reliability and robustness of in-production DNN-based software. During the model engineering phase, developers need to assess the impact of their configuration choices carefully. The effectiveness of this assessment depends on the capability of testing data to trigger both the major functionalities of the model (regular cases) and the minor functionalities (corner cases).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Foutse Khomh;Giuliano Antoniol

Student:

Partner:

Bombardier Aerospace Inc (Montreal, QC)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing; Transportation and warehousing

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Amélioration des protocoles de cryoconservation des semences de taureau en utilisant des protéines de blé comme agents de cryoconservation

L’industrie laitière et de bétail implique la distribution de semences génétiquement optimales et de qualité. La cryoconservation du sperme bovin est la façon la plus efficace de fournir ces semences aux producteurs à travers le monde. L’inconvénient est que ce processus de congélation, à de très basses températures, induit une diminution de la fertilité des spermatozoïdes. Les industries fournissant le sperme doivent alors améliorer leurs protocoles de congélation afin de répondre à la forte demande des producteurs. De nombreux protocoles ont été établis, cependant les résultats ne sont pas assez satisfaisants ou montrent des contraintes telles que de la toxicité. L’objectif de Boviteq est de développer un nouveau protocole de cryoconservation du sperme impliquant des protéines de blé et de comprendre les mécanismes de protection des spermatozoïdes par ces protéines afin d’optimiser les protocoles.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Diana A Averill-Bates

Student:

Partner:

L'Alliance Boviteq Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Social impacts on users and community : methodological approach and a sustainable building case study

The buildings have an important environmental and social footprint, and to respond to that, the sustainable buildings are the new tendency of the building sector. To reduce the negative impacts associated to it, accreditations like LEED were developed, but it is mostly focused on the environmental aspects, and the social criteria are sadly neglected. This project research aims to develop a methodological approach to measure the social impacts of sustainable building projects, on the users (residents, employees) and the local community. The methodology includes a literature review on various field of research (architecture, urbanism, environmental psychology, social life cycle assessment), a series of semi-directed interviews with experts in these fields, and finally a case study of a sustainable building. The internship at Gestion Immobilière Quo Vadis will enable to develop the appropriate tool to evaluate the social performance of a sustainable building.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Cécile Bulle

Student:

Partner:

9021-1988 Quebec Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Real estate and rental and leasing

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Effet des structures modulaires reconfigurables et des cellules dynamiques sur la performance des PME manufacturières au Québec

De plus en plus, l’amélioration des processus de fabrication et des méthodes de travail est un enjeu au cœur des préoccupations des petites et moyennes entreprises au Québec, et ce, encore plus dans le milieu agroalimentaire en raison de la diminution notable du nombre de petites fermes. L’incertitude et les variations constantes de la demande dans ce secteur forcent les entreprises à revoir leur productivité, aller vers l’international et revoir leur façon de faire pour être le plus flexible possible. L’utilisation de cellule dynamique peut donc être une voie extrêmement importante à prendre pour des entreprises souhaitant se démarquer par sa flexibilité de production. En effet, ce principe permet d’optimiser la production d’entreprises souhaitant se diriger vers un marché de commande par catalogue.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Georges Abdul-Nour;Sébastien Gamache

Student:

Partner:

Rovibec Agrisolutions Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Toward Building a Technical Engineering Smart Search

Documentation is an integral part of any product development. Product and documentation should co-evolve; whenever the product is changed the documentation should be updated and vice versa. Yet, oftentimes, multiple documentation and product versions may exist; between and within the documentation of the product, relations and dependencies may or may not be explicit, documented, trustworthy or consistent. For example, dependencies may not be explicitly stated (or different terms may be used for the same concepts), obscure jargon and technical abbreviations may be used inconsistently. In a regulated domain such as aerospace, a lack of consistency and–or coherence in the documentation of a product is a critical issue. Airborne software certification requires documentation to be unambiguous, precise and complete. Documentation and documentation relations are vital to ensure and prove dependability.
The high-level and long-term goal of this research is to support engineers in information gathering and fruition via semi-automatic document analytics (i) to promote information consistency; (ii) to extract and build trustworthy document (and document parts) relations (including traceability relations) and models; and (iii) to foster an effective information access and use.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Foutse Khomh;Giuliano Antoniol

Student:

Partner:

Bombardier Aerospace Inc (Montreal, QC)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing; Transportation and warehousing

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Impact of Wind Energy Turbines on Bat and Bird Mortality

In this MITACS-funded project, a postdoctoral researcher will work with partners at Trent University and Bird Studies Canada to expand our understanding of how wind turbines affect birds and bats. We will leverage an extremely detailed database on wind-wildlife interactions that is managed by Bird Canada. Using these data, we will investigate whether bat and bird mortality are affected by turbine characteristics including height and the area swept by the turbine blades. This work directly supports Birds Canada’s mandate to conservation wild bird populations, and our results will contribute to developing renewable energy without compromising biodiversity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christina Davy

Student:

Partner:

Birds Canada (ON)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Energy and Utilities; Life Sciences (not health); Environmental Science and Technology

University:

Trent University

Program:

Accelerate

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