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Structural constraint as a method to improve OLED device lifetimes

We propose to develop a structurally constrained analog to the electron transport molecule TPBi. If our new molecule shows superior device lifetimes compared to TPBi, it will have broad implications to the field of solid state lighting. TPBi is currently a “gold standard” electron-transport material for OLEDs fabricated industrially, and as such success in this project is likely to generate significant interest in our new strategy for the stabilization of OLED materials. In addition, a preliminary study of the patent literature indicates that our strategy for kinetic stabilization has not yet been applied to OLED materials. Due to the substantial commercial potential of stabilized OLED lighting, we will pursue patent protection of our discoveries pending positive results for our materials in devices. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Zachary Hudson

Student:

Partner:

Nagoya University

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

New Proton Conducting Materials

Hydrogen fuel cells have potential as a sustainable, environmentally friendly, and highly efficient energy alternative. The proton conduction properties of fuel cells are important in improving existing fuel cells and developing new fuel cell technologies. Imidazole and its derivatives are promising for their proton conducting properties, especially when confined in a porous support framework. In this project, we hope to develop a novel class of proton conducting materials with cellulose nanocrystals and silica as the porous framework. These materials will be developed in collaboration with the Mizuno group at Kanazawa University. The synthesis will be performed at The University of British Columbia, whereas the proton conduction characterization and solid state NMR spectroscopy will be performed at Kanazawa University.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark MacLachlan

Student:

Partner:

Kanazawa University

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

mm-Wave Metasurface Antennas for 5G Wireless Networks

Extrapolating from current market trends and financial growth in mobile technology, it is predicted that next generation wireless networks will be required to support about a 1,000-fold increase in data capacity to handle over 100 billion devices featuring peak rates of 10 Gb/s. Consequently, there is a rapid transition to devise and innovate novel mm-wave systems covering the 60 GHz mm-wave spectrum (IEEE 802.11ad) owing to the large unlicensed bandwidth, capable of supporting the required multi-gigabit communication systems. mm-Wave propagation features a highly directive communication, where the electromagnetic (EM) signal follows a near line-of-sight (LOS) communication between the intended transmitters and receivers. Recently, there has been a great interest in a new class of antennas, called metasurface antennas, which are 2D antenna structures whose physical apertures are engineered at a sub-wavelength scale, to generate arbitrary EM radiation for smart beam-forming applications.TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shulabh Gupta

Student:

Partner:

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Role of Smoking-Induced Surfactant Protein-D in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition of the digestive system. Symptoms can include abdominal pain, persistent diarrhea, rectal bleeding, bloody stools, weight loss and fatigue. IBD is caused by a combination of genetics, environmental factors and irregular immune responses to normal gut bacteria. As the incidence of IBD is increasing in Asia, more research needs to be done on its’ treatment and management to improve patient quality of life and healthcare costs.
Previous studies have shown that smoking has a variable effect on IBD depending on which area of the digestive system is affected. Smoking has also been linked to increases in blood levels of surfactant protein d (SP-D) which has been shown to be associated with IBD.
This project would help investigate how IBD is affected by smoking-related increase of SP-D which could potentially be used as a target for treatment or prevention.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Don Sin

Student:

Partner:

Keio University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Development of microfluidic paper-based device for rapid detection of selective pesticides in foods

Agriculture and food production heavily rely on the use of pesticides to kill weeds and bugs. To ensure the food is safe, we need to test the concentration of pesticide residues in food products. The standard pesticide analysis in laboratories is complex, slow, expensive, and requires expertise. This project aims to design and make a small piece of special paper that can detect toxic pesticide residues in foods in several minutes with very simple operation and extremely low price. With the aid of a special inkjet printer, all required (bio-) chemicals can be printed onto the modified paper with great efforts on optimization. This project will take selected pesticide model to explore the potential of such a paper device to test real food sample and to be used by not only food industry but also consumers. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xiaonan Lu

Student:

Partner:

Keio University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

3D printed ammonia sensors from vapochromic coordination polymers suspended in Solgel

Previous work creating ammonia sensors using vapochromic coordination polymers involved either deposition via thin films or via immobilization in post arrays. This project will continue to explore new and novel deposition methods for vapochromic coordination polymers via the use of 3D printers using suspension polymers such as Sol-gel and other 3D-printable polymers. The anticipation of using 3D printers to do the deposition is that more complex geometries can be made that may aid in the creation of a more sensitive and responsive sensor compared to the previous work in thin films and other immobilization techniques. The expected outcome of this work is to show that chemical sensors fabricated by this method will have similar or better response to previously explored methods. In addition it is expected to show that this method may be more suitable in creating a low-cost, high-yield fabrication method for chemical sensors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bonnie Gray

Student:

Partner:

Yamagata University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

A Collaborative Research Project by a Community of Practice on Harnessing Renewable Green Energy in Sustaining Community Greenhouse at Haliburton, Ontario

As part of the Masters of Arts in Sustainability Studies Program at Trent University, the graduate intern will engage in a community-based research group that looks into the local community needs at Haliburton, Ontario. Specifically, the graduate intern will work with a host partner organization, Abbey Gardens Community Trust, to understand the local food security needs arising from the harsh local climate, as well as to procure adequate project resources to implement a community greenhouse project with the host partner. Together with the research group, the graduate intern shall focus on designing, upgrading, and testing a unique ‘double-hooped’ green-tech passive greenhouse that is expected to improve and to extend the planting window of the existing greenhouses within the host partner farming site. This will allow the host partner to provide fresh green salads, herbs, small plants, tubulars, and other vegetable directly to the local Haliburton community across all four seasons.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Thomas Howard Whillans;Stephen Hill;Karen Thompson

Student:

Partner:

Abbey Gardens

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Trent University

Program:

Accelerate

Microservice-based NFV Framework

Network operators ubiquitously deploy hardware middleboxes such as firewalls, proxies, WAN optimizer, intrusion detection and prevention systems to realize different network services. These middleboxes are vertically-integrated, expensive, and proprietary hardware appliances with limited or no programmability and require specially trained personnel for deployment and maintenance, resulting in increased capital and operational expenditure for the network operators. Recently, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has proposed to move the network functions offered by these hardware middleboxes to software (also known as Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)) running on commodity servers to reduce cost and increase flexibility. However, a fundamental problem with existing VNFs is the existence of a large number of common functionalities (e.g., packet classification, payload inspection, etc.) repeated across different VNFs. This has several negative consequences, including redundant development of functionalities in different VNFs and coarse grained resource allocation and scaling imposed by the monolithic nature of VNFs among others.TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raouf Boutaba

Student:

Partner:

Inria Nancy - Grand-Est Research Centre

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Genome assembly and annotation for the North American mountain goat

The field of genomics is a rapidly developing field that offers many innovative insights into how living organisms function, adapt to their environment and evolve over time. Genomics studies genomes, i.e. complete sets of DNA present in every cell, and their functionality. In the proposed project I will refine the genome for the North American mountain goat that is currently in the final stages of completion. Mountain goats are unique alpine mammals, vulnerable to human disturbance, overharvesting and climate change. A quality reference genome is a requirement for subsequent genomic studies of population demography and adaptation. Following the assembly, I will annotate the genome, i.e. determine the location of coding and controlling regions of the sequence, genes and their predicted function. Genome annotation is essential for identifying the genetic adaptations an organism has to it’s environment, and consequently, it’s capacity to adapt to future changes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aaron Shafer

Student:

Partner:

Université Lille1 - Sciences et Technologies

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

Trent University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Software-Defined Network Monitoring

Monitoring is fundamental to network management. Accurate and timely statistics at different granularities (e.g., per-user, per-device etc.) are essential for many network management applications (e.g., traffic engineering, failure detection etc.). Contemporary monitoring solutions (e.g., Cisco Netflow) are proprietary, inflexible, and incur a large up-front licensing and setup cost. Alternatively, dedicated hardware devices for monitoring can be used but they export statistics using non-standard protocols, are expensive and difficult to upgrade. More recently, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has been proposed to decouple the network’s control plane from data forwarding plane and implements the control plane as a logically centralized software with a global network view. The global network view available to SDN controllers facilitates the development of network monitoring applications that optimize monitoring frequencies and the placement of monitoring probes. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raouf Boutaba

Student:

Partner:

Inria Nancy - Grand-Est Research Centre

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Towards a complete ATM fraud detection scheme using advanced Video Analytics and Biometric Identification Technology

Solink Corporation is a video analytic company that transcribes video streams into searchable metadata. Their flagship solution, Searchlight, proactively monitors, identifies and alerts investigators of suspicious activity at ATMs to reduce fraud and improve customer experience. Solink’s current ATM Skimming detection product (Searchlight) analyzes both transaction and video at an ATM to detect suspicious activity and automatically generates an alarm in the event of fraudulent operations. Solink’s team is excited to collaborate with Dr. Andy Adler at Carleton University in order to develop new software and video analytics to address and detect ATM fraud in video surveillance. Our objective is to develop a complete solution that combines the power of video analytics and Biometrics, and that allows for detection of ATM fraud centrally using a 100% software solution. A mutual contribution with Carleton University will ultimately lead to new product development and groundbreaking technology, emerging in this competitive field.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andy Adler

Student:

Partner:

Solink

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancing decision making around management and mitigation of forest invasive alien species using computer assisted risk models.

The forests of Canada are under acute risk of been introduced to new non-native forest invasive alien species (FIAS) due to increase in free trade, climate change, anthropogenic activities, lack of natural enemies and environmental considerations that will limit the control and eradication process. In recognition to FIAS ability to threaten the country’s environment and economy, our current research, aims at investigating species specific invasive behaviors in changing climate conditions, dispersal patterns linked with genetic traits and transport networks and ultimately providing timely information of potential risk and distribution zones of the non-native FIAS enabling policymakers and land managers to prepare appropriate control and eradication strategies in advance.The study will form a basis for the development of non-native FIAS risk assessment strategies focusing on prevention of spread and establishment of FIAS in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Verena Griess

Student:

Partner:

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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