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Modélisation de la probabilité d’un cyberincident pour une organisation et construction d’une cote de cybersécurité

En 2018, les entreprises doivent se protéger contre un risque opérationnel critique : le cyberrisque. L’objectif de ce projet de recherche est de développer une cote de cybersécurité, qui donne une mesure du niveau de cyberrisque global d’une entreprise en fonction de ses caractéristiques et de son programme de gestion des systèmes informatiques. La cote de cybersécurité sera définie selon une approche actuarielle où l’on estime la probabilité de cyberincident à partir des données fournies par Vumetric. La méthodologie pour estimer la probabilité de cyberincident repose sur les outils de l’analyse prédictive et de l’apprentissage statistique. La cote sera aussi interprétable à l’aide de facteurs de risque, ce qui permettra à Vumetric d’accompagner les organisations dans l’identification du risque et la mise en place de solutions pour réduire leur exposition au cyberrisque.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Etienne Marceau;Marie-Pier Côté

Student:

Partner:

Vumetric

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Exploration and Development of an Active Assisted Living Data Sharing Infrastructure Aimed at Supporting the Development of Standards, Guidelines, and Certification Programs

The Ubiquitous Health Technology Lab (UbiLab) will explore the development of a data integration framework and recommendation for associated standards that aims at combining data from (1) smart home systems, (2) AAL or IoT for health technology, (3) mHealth, and (4) wearables. Important areas of data management will be explored, as for example security and encryption (blockchain) and privacy and data access agreements. This initiative will provide the CSA Group with a roadmap of potential future standards to be developed in Canada and around the world to support the evolution of IoT for health and AAL technology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Plinio Pelegrini Morita

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Standards Association (ON)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Optimizing Chemical Usage at the Barkerville Gold Mine

The Barkerville Gold Mine will host an intern to conduct a study to optimize chemical usage to extract gold and treat effluents. The gold mine obtains ore from a range of deposits with different mineralogical properties. The intent is to minimize chemical use and therefore reduce effluent treatment requirements thereby reducing overall environmental liabilities and increasing productivity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bern Klein

Student:

Partner:

Barkerville Gold Mines

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Use of microfluidic platform to generate perfusable vessels for the study of transendothelial hormone flux

The challenges faced by mammals in adapting to their environment must be tightly controlled in order to ensure optimal body function. Hormones can travel in the bloodstream to reach various parts of the body and execute their biological actions on various organs. However, to reach their target the hormones must leave the bloodstream. That means they must cross the wall of blood vessels. This research project will use an integrated approach to examine the ways in which hormones leave the bloodstream and move to target tissues. Specifically, we will focus on iron as a nutritional cue for biological changes. In summary, this research will uncover and establish important new knowledge for animal physiologists.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gary Sweeney

Student:

Partner:

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Life Sciences (not health); Biotechnology; Pharmaceuticals

University:

York University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Seismic performance assessment of smart highway bridges using life-cycle costing

Bridge infrastructure constitutes a substantial portion of the national wealth of Canada, whose performance during earthquake events has a significant impact on the public safety. How to enhance the seismic performance of bridge structures is a huge big challenge in civil engineering. And how to promote the application of advanced technique in civil engineering is another big challenge. The project will provide insight into the long-term performance of a novel bridge reinforced with Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) bars in the life-cycle context, which is helpful for its application and acceptance by the decision makers. Bourcet Engineering is a renowned company in Western Canada for offering innovative solutions to civil infrastructure, and resource industries. The collaboration will place Bourcet Engineering at the forefront of new technologies and development in infrastructure systems and enable it to become a world leader in the advanced analysis and design of structures.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shahria Alam

Student:

Partner:

Bourcet Engineering

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Salt marsh carbon storage and accumulation rate in Boundary Bay, Delta, British Columbia

Salt marshes are intertidal ecosystems found on sheltered temperate marine coastlines which are known to provide a range of ecosystem services. These services include storm surge and flood protection, and carbon storage, which have been identified as valuable services to help coastal communities prepare for and fight against climate change. Salt marshes are good sinks for atmospheric carbon dioxide relative to their small size due to their ability to trap and bury organic matter in their soils. However, information on salt marshes is limited, which causes these ecosystems to be overlooked when creating coastal management plans and climate change plans. This research will be providing new data on the carbon storage ability of the salt marsh found in Boundary Bay, Delta, B.C., to help organizations and governments make evidence-based policy decisions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Karen Kohfeld

Student:

Partner:

West Coast Environmental Law Association

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure, Built Space, and Financialization in Post-Crisis Ireland

The research to be undertaken in Ireland is a part of my dissertation project, entitled “Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure, Built Space, and Financialization in Post-Crisis Ireland.” The project widely investigates the intersections of various industries—media, tech, tourism, and finance—which have been strategically deployed in Ireland’s post-financial crisis political and cultural landscape as areas for recovery, growth, and re-development, with a particular focus on space and planning due to the centrality of property finance within the global economic downturn. The title of the project refers to the dictum that “a rising tide lifts all boats,” a slogan favored by Seán Lemass, seen to be the pioneer of liberalization in the Irish economy during his tenure as Taoiseach in the 1960s. However, the industries promoted since the crisis, which tend to instrumentalize Irish “culture” towards goals of economic development, participate within an increasingly turbulent political, economic, and environmental climate. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kay Dickinson

Student:

Partner:

Trinity College Dublin

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Intelligent Activity Tracking and Perception

Tracking humans in video can have a variety of applications including monitoring shoppers in stores, identifying suspicious activities in public spaces, and ensuring the security of senior home residents. Recent advances in video processing and hardware capability on computers have made it possible to track a single human in a video sequence in real time. However, tracking multiple people at the same time without mixing up the identities of different persons is still a major research challenge. Aidant Intelligent Systems Inc. has already implemented real time tracking algorithms internally. To extend their algorithms to reliably track multiple humans. While we will start by considering the input of a single video camera, we will subsequently introduce multiple high end video cameras and develop new algorithms that can improve the accuracy utilizing multiple videos.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anup Basu

Student:

Partner:

AiDANT Intelligent Technology

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Lived Scans: Integrating the Arts in Medical Education

My research project is motivated by the desire to understand how the sense of self is altered by biomedical imagining technologies, and what role the arts can play to remedy the schism between medical scans and the lived experiences of an ill patient. From my previous ethnographic research, I have come to believe that medical practitioners are mutually implicated in preservation of subjectivity for their patients. In order for doctors to view their patients as irreducible subjects instead of objects of study, empathy must be instilled, fostered, and preserved as a key component to patient. One proven strategy for empathy creation for students and professionals is the thoughtful integration of humanities into medical pedagogy. The UK has an established history of integrating the arts into medical education, a field known as the Medical Humanities. Through interviews with world-renowned Medical Humanists, conducting fine arts workshops for mixed classes of patients and physicians, and inserting myself into the critical discourse only found within esteemed Medical Humanities research clusters, I expect to decipher the strategies and best practices for integrating the arts into medicine. My ultimate goal is to create arts implementation procedures for the burgeoning Medical Humanities programs back in North America.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kim Sawchuk

Student:

Partner:

University of Kent

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Enabling Decision Making for Lower Mainland Facilities Management through Seismic Risk Modelling of Hospital Infrastructure

Healthcare infrastructure plays a key role in the recovery of communities in a post-disaster scenario. In seismically active regions, such as western Canada, an understanding of the seismic performance of hospitals is essential to inform emergency management and effectively mitigate earthquake risk. This research project aims to develop new methodological approaches to integrate seismic risk assessments into the decision-making process of healthcare facilities management. A series of case studies aimed at evaluating the seismic risk of several hospital campuses in the Lower Mainland will be used to validate the methods. The project aims to utilize building inventory data developed through a visual screenings of seismic vulnerability to develop models to estimate seismic damage, economic losses and levels of functionality associated with different ground motion shaking intensities. Two hospital campuses will be evaluated under realistic scenario earthquakes to inform emergency management response and identify possible mitigation measures.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carlos Molina Hutt

Student:

Partner:

Bush, Bohlman & Partners

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Quel modèle de conception innovante au XXIe en architecture au Québec ?

Ce projet de recherche action explore la question d’équilibre entre conception réglée et conception innovante appliquée au domaine de l’architecture. Bien que la compréhension de l’articulation entre ces deux niveaux de créativité touche des notions théoriques allant de la psychologie organisationnelle aux théories du management et de la conception. L’atteinte de l’équilibre entre ces niveaux reste très ancrée dans une réalité opérationnelle qui nécessite un partenariat entre le monde académique et le secteur privé.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christophe Abrassart

Student:

Partner:

Aedifica

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Towards understanding adoption of Carsharing

Carsharing is a service where members have access to a fleet of shared vehicles distributed across a city. Members can book a vehicle when needed, allowing for the convenience of vehicle ownership while reducing the need to own private vehicles. The two primary forms of carsharing are a free-floating or free floating model, where users can pick up and drop off vehicles anywhere inside a service area, and a round-trip or round trip model, where members pick up the vehicle at a specific location and later return it to that starting location. This research will predict the future of carsharing in Vancouver, BC and will inform strategies to enable a more sustainable usage of carshare

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hadi Dowlatabadi;Jiaying Zhao

Student:

Partner:

Modo

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Real estate and rental and leasing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

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