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Understanding the nanostructure of organic photovoltaics

In light of our dramatic environmental situation, we are faced with implementing carbon-neutral power sources. The sun offers a nearly endless supply of energy that can be converted into consumable power with the use of photovoltaics. While current photovoltaics are rather efficient, they are expensive to manufacture and install. A new branch of photovoltaics, organic photovoltaics, combines the tunability of chemical synthesis with abundant elements and inexpensive, lightweight materials. The result is the ability to mass manufacture these cells using techniques such as roll-to-roll printing, allowing for production at scales vastly larger and cheaper than for existing cells. However, organic photovoltaics are not without fault. These cells are at best, half as efficient at converting solar energy to power than are today’s silicon solar cells and lack long-term stability. My research is focused on understanding the factors that influence the nanostructure of the light harvesting materials typically used.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jillian Buriak

Student:

Partner:

Technical University of Munich

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Energy and Utilities; Nanotechnology; Clean Technology

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Charge-Shifting Polycations as Gene Transfection Agents

Synthetic polymers will be explored as a vehicle to deliver DNA to cells for potential gene therapy applications. Charge-shifting polycations with varying rates of degradation will be studied to test the effectiveness of DNA release, as well as eventual uptake and conversion of the DNA to produce a targeted protein (i.e. transfection). The varying rates of degradation of the charge-shifting polycations that have been developed for this project will be a useful handle in determining optimal release kinetics, as well as provide fundamental information on the mechanism of transfection. Toxicity of the charge-shifting polycations will be tested with cell viability assays. It is hypothesized that charge-shifting polycations will exhibit greater transfection efficiencies relative to standard synthetic polycations, as well as have reduced toxicities due to their inherent degradation into benign by-products. The results of this work are anticipated to provide the growing field of gene therapy with fundamental insight towards the design of polymers for DNA delivery.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Harald Stover

Student:

Partner:

Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Nanotechnology; Life Sciences (not health); Other

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Accelerating audio matching on multicore machines

The multiple audio sequences matching problem can be regarded as a pattern identification problem with inputs of multiple highly fragmented audio sequences. Singular Software develops a product which employs a model-based alignment algorithm to match audio sequences on a common time line to solve this problem. This product relies on computationally intensive mathematical operations such as FFT and maximum log likelihood calculation for different models, which limit the performance. This project aims to explore the feasibility and the tradeoffs involved with accelerating audio sequence matching algorithms on multicore processors. This project will explore acceleration using ‘traditional’ multicore CPUs and massively-parallel Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)

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Faculty Supervisor:

Matei Ripeanu

Student:

Partner:

Singular Software

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Self reporting Tookad-Caspase 3-Pyropheophorbide PDT beacon for PDT/fluorescence imaging of cancer

I plan to make a small molecule probe that reacts to specific colors of light, triggering cell death in the illuminated area in a process called Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) as a method to treat cancer. The probe uses a drug currently being investigated in clinical trials called Tookad© soluble for therapy. This probe also has a component that would react to the cell death in the tumor that is fluorescent, meaning that upon illumination with a specific wavelength of light, it will emit light of a slightly longer wavelength which can be detected for monitoring the tumor post-treatment. This probe would allow for both PDT treatment as well as treatment monitoring, meaning this compound can provide therapy and diagnostics all in one.TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xiaosong Wang

Student:

Partner:

The University of Tokyo

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Development of CardiAI: An AI-Assisted Point-of-Care Device for Heart Failure Management

The aim of this research and development project is to design and develop a bedside point-of-care device to be equipped with the CardiAI’s machine learning technology for heart failure management. our POC system will include
disposable cardiac biomarker strips and an electronic reader. Once implemented, it will be connected to the AI platform that will continuously collects patients’ health information from patient’s daily manual log, electronic medical record, and remotely monitor the patient’s quality of life (QoL) and their medication adherence, thus helping patients manage their condition better.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin P Mintchev

Student:

Partner:

CardiAI Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Développement d’un prototype de bracelet pour l’analyse en temps réel des données médicales

Technologies EllenSee Inc. se veut devenir un acteur majeur dans le domaine de Ia securite des aines. Pour ce faire, un bracelet permettant de detecter les chutes. de reconnaitre des activites physiques journalieres et de surveiller les donnees medicales du porteur doit etre COn9U. Un tel outil permettra de reduire le temps de reaction du personnel medicallors d’accidents plus ou moins graves, et d’augmenter les chances de survies par exemple dans le cadre d’un AVC (Arret Vascufaire Cerebral). D’autres dispositifs existent. majoritairement bases sur des boutons. Cependant, lors de problemas provoquant une inconscience, ces dispositifs deviennent completement inutiles. C’est pourquoi Technologies EllenSee Inc. veut creer un outil detectant automatiquement Ia majorite des problemas pouvant arriver a nos aines.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kévin Bouchard

Student:

Partner:

Technologies EllenSee Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Program:

Accelerate

Maximizing Access to Mental Health Resources

The current project is a partnership between the University of Western Ontario and the London-Middlesex Canadian Mental Health Association, and will aim to increase the equitability of access to mental health services by investigating the barriers that prevent certain populations from such access. To do this, two key areas of service delivery, crisis services and case management, will be assessed in order to determine whether participation rates vary by age, gender, ethnic identity/language, or income. Using two complementary psychological frameworks, The Health Belief Model and The Theory of Planned Behavior, we will assess the attitudes and beliefs that discourage certain populations from seeking out mental health resources, and will use these findings to develop a psychological basis for interventions to increase equitable participation. The final product will be a report to the CMHA describing the research findings and providing recommendations in order to promote equitable access. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

James Olson

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Mental Health Association (Elgin Middlesex)

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

A Novel Approach for Rotor Angle Stability Prediction of Power Systems with High Wind Power Penetration

Power systems are becoming more open, stochastic and dynamic nonlinear as the integration of renewable energy sources are keeping increasing. On the other hand, power systems are usually confronted with various weather conditions and fortuitous events that may lead to incidents causing instability of the networks. This research will propose an on-line transient stability prediction approach for power systems with high penetration of renewable energy, which aims at fast detecting the potential instabilities in systems thus saving more time for remedial controls and in further, prevents unintended islanding, cascading outages, and widespread blackouts. Applications of statistical machine learning in power system stability analysis and control would be studied in this research to support the achievement of a safe, reliable, and sustainable power grid.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chi Yung Chung

Student:

Partner:

Imperial College London

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Self-Assembly of Redox-Active Receptors

The discovery of new chemicals and materials with unique optical and structural properties is the driving force behind the manufacturing of the innovative devices for electronic, sensing and medicinal applications. In this research project, novel compounds will be synthesized and incorporated into self-assembled cages as building blocks on a large molecular scale. These cages will be investigated with respect to their structural composition, physical properties for potential use as receptors in sensing and medicinal applications. This project will result in the development of the new protocols for synthesis, assembly and characterization of these large self-assembled molecules. These findings will be published in the peer-reviewed journal as a collaborative study of the two groups, Profs. Storr and Sallé.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tim Storr

Student:

Partner:

Université d’Angers

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Pilot Study of micro-OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) Device for the Detection of Invasive and Pre-invasive Cervical Lesions Ex Vivo

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an optical imaging method providing 3D in vivo optical tissue biopsy noninvasively. OCT studies in gynecology has revealed its capabilities for cervical screening due to its high resolution imaging, and sensitivity to both morphological and functional changes, and customized probes. Micro-optical coherence tomography (µOCT), a technology developed at Tearney Lab at Harvard Medical School, captures images of four-dimensional (x, y, z, t) cellular and sub-cellular biological structures with an isotropic 1 µm spatial resolution and 10 ms temporal resolution. The bench top microscope uses a visible broad bandwidth supercontinuum light source to achieve high axial resolution as well as new software and optics that maintain high lateral resolution over an extended focal depth. Studies have shown that µOCT is capable of resolving individual sub-cellular features and their function, all without requiring exogenous contrast agents. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Calum MacAulay

Student:

Partner:

Harvard University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Facilitating Human Interaction with a Robotic Exercise Coach using Smart Objects

The project builds upon prior work done by Prof. Katherine Kuchenbecker’s former Ph.D. student Naomi Fitter and current Ph.D. student Mayumi Mohan in the field of human-robot interaction. They investigated ways of using an upper-body humanoid robot (a Rethink Robotics Baxter Research Robot) to play physically interactive games with elderly adults in order to motivate them to exercise. The objective of the project is to improve the existing platform by facilitating the human user to interact with the robot through smart objects that trigger specific robot behaviors. Smart objects in this scope are any engineered device capable of producing dynamic physical interaction between a human and the robot, e.g., a smart glove that cues the robot to initiate a boxing game with a human. This open-ended design research project encompasses mechanical, electrical and computer engineering to achieve following milestone objectives: TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jeremy Cooperstock

Student:

Partner:

Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Technology; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Education

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Determination of Maneuvering Coefficients Using RANS Solvers

The objective is to develop the best practices for the determination of manoeuvring coefficients by solving RANS equations. The commercial CFD package, Star-CCM+, will be employed. Results will be used to develop mathematical manoeuvring models. Studies will be carried out for three ships with and without appendages. Various scales will be used to investigate the scale effect in CFD simulations. Steady and unsteady RANS simulations will be performed for steady drift and planar motion mechanism cases. In the simulations, effects of y+ value, grid distribution and resolution, domain size, free-surface modeling, turbulence model and time step will be investigated to quantify uncertainties and use this insight to recommend best practices for efficient and practical predictions of manoeuvring coefficients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wei Qiu

Student:

Partner:

American Bureau of Shipping

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

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