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Devulcanization of Scrap Rubber and Incorporation of Devulcanized Rubber in Virgin Rubber Compounds

The main focus of this project is to develope and optimize a rubber recycling technology in which the scrap rubber, such as scrap tires and automotive parts, can be recycled and incorporated in a new rubber product compound. Tyromer Inc. (www.tyromer.com) is created to commercialize a rubber devulcanization technology utilizing supercritical fluid and extrusion. The company product is a devulcanized rubber that can be reused in rubber goods manufacturing. As the company’s focus is to qualify its Tyromer product for tire application, it will be in a much stronger position to optimize product performance with a more in depth understanding of some of the factors affecting material properties. The key focus for company is to produce a product suitable for incorporation into new rubber compound for tire and automotive industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexander Penlidis

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Capacité de régénération suite aux feux/coupes, de remise en production et de croissance des peuplements juvéniles/immatures en pessière dans un contexte de changement climatique

Les changements climatiques auront des effets marqués dans la forêt, une source importante de fibre pour l’industrie et un réservoir significatif de carbone. Dans sa partie nord, la forêt devient de plus en plus ouverte; on y observe une augmentation des superficies sans arbres. Ce projet vise à mieux comprendre les facteurs qui affectent la densité et la croissance des peuplements, notamment ceux situés aux limites de la forêt boréale. A l’aide de données récoltées sur le terrain et des données d’archives, les stagiaires comparerons la croissance et la régénération après coupes et après feux afin d’évaluer les facteurs responsables de la résilience des forêts. Ceci permettra d’anticiper les conséquences des climatiques sur notre capacité d’aménager la forêt de manière durable.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yves Bergeron;Frédéric Raulier;Olivier Blarquez

Student:

Partner:

Ouranos Inc;Rayonier A.M. Canada S.E.N.C.

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Accommodation and food services; Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

University:

Université de Montréal; Université du Québec à Montréal; Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue; Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Comparing and Improving Approaches to Topic Modeling

The proposed research project aims at evaluating and improving a technique in Statistical Natural Processing called Topic Modelling in order to apply it to real-life scenarios. Topic modeling is a techniques that allows the quick discovery of what the main topics of a document collection are, and thus automatically answers the question “What do these documents talk about?”.
Several approaches have been proposed to implement topic modeling, but their evaluation have rarely taken the end-use into account. In addition, the topics identified by such techniques are often based on single words and seen as the end-result.
In this research, we wish to address two main issues: 1) the evaluation of methods in topic modeling based on a social validity assessment when applied to real-life applications, and 2) the improvement of the extracted topics based on other linguistic units, other than single words.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Leila Kosseim

Student:

Partner:

Provalis Research Corp

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Topological Network Analysis for Transportation and Water Management Systems

The main goal of this project is to develop a general set of computational solutions that could be used to prevent and manage emergency situations in transportation and water management networks by developing a monitoring and predictive model. This monitoring and predictive model will be based on topological data analysis (TDA) in a fashion similar to the model used in systems biology but here applied to Big Data provided by transportation, communication and water management systems. The TDA thanks to its proactive approach – utilizing different sources and their correlations and generating data interpretation and association – will evolve towards creating “business intelligence” and will improve transportation and water management safety at a system level and crisis management. This methodology is based on the study of dynamic predictive models related to individual and / or collective behavior as well, especially inspired by the models produced by systems biology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jack Tuszynski

Student:

Partner:

Mowat Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Precast Concrete Carbonation under Ambient Conditions

This project seeks to explore the practical viability of curing concrete via carbonation at ambient pressure conditions, thereby omitting the technique’s current dependency on elevated pressures. A vacuum pre-setting step and regimented CO2 injections highlight the proposed technique. Experiments will initially be carried out at the laboratory scale at the university, and then scaled up to pilot trials to be conducted at the partner’s industrial site. Tests and analyses include compressive strength, absorption, porosity, surface resistivity, mineralogy, microscopy, and thermal analysis. Promising outcomes will help the industrial partner expand on its commercial implementation of carbonation curing, and promote further adoption by the concrete precast industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yixin Shao

Student:

Partner:

Boehmers

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Enteroids and enteroid derived monolayer cultures: Using primary intestinal epithelial cell cultures to define the mechanisms underlying epithelial intrinsic innate defenses

Using growth media available from Stemcell technologies, along with our own tools and techniques, we can isolate and grow intestinal stem cells from mice or human patient donors into enteroid cultures. Enteroids are 3D cell cultures that replicate many of the structures and types of cells found in the intestinal lining. We propose to work with Stemcell technologies to continue to develop their growth media for enteroid culture and apply these new media and techniques to further or understanding of how these cells help the body defend against infection. We will study how the goblet cells within the enteroids respond to infectious bacteria to produce protective mucus and how the other cells of the enteroid produce antimicrobial factors to kill the invading bacteria, defend themselves from attack and produce factors to recruit immune cells to the site of infection.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bruce Vallance

Student:

Partner:

STEMCELL Technologies Canada Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Life Sciences (not health); Pharmaceuticals

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Advanced mapping techniques applied to wetland drone base information

Wetlands are habitats for many fishes, aquatic invertebrates, waterfowl, and other wildlife. Wetlands are also important for people’s daily lives. They can renovate freshwater, store flood, and provide fishery resources. However, wetlands are being destroyed and polluted at alarming rates worldwide. This research tries to understand the current wetlands extent and states in mid-Alberta, Canada. We use an emergent Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) and cutting-edge computer techniques to map wetland vegetation species and communities. Results of this research will help the public and policy-makers better know and conserve current wetlands in central Alberta. Fiera Biological Consulting Ltd. will also benefit from this research in enhancing their expertise in wetlands monitoring.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa

Student:

Partner:

Fiera Biological Consulting Ltd

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Adaptive User Interfaces for Product Recommender Systems

We are in the process of creating and growing a team of researchers, expert in the field of machine learning and data-mining. Ultimately, our aim is to create solutions to eliminate the need to manually define personalization strategies. We are in the process of signing partnership agreements with retailers capable of collecting large-scale datasets of customer behaviour. Through a data-sharing/consulting partnership we plan to perform research on the design of recommender systems customized for the data-sets available to brick and mortar retailers. These methods can be used in their physical and online loyalty programs as well as in their dynamical promotions/pricing strategies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Cristina Conati

Student:

Partner:

FIND Innovation Labs Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Technology; Commercial Services; Information and Communications Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Immune modulation with checkpoint inhibitor antibodies targeting GITR or OX40 to improve cancer immune therapy with DepoVaxTM vaccine and metronomic cyclophosphamide

Immunovaccine Inc. is developing immune therapies for cancer using the company’s DepoVaxTM vaccine technology. DepoVax is a patented formulation provides controlled and prolonged exposure of antigens and adjuvants to the immune system, resulting in a strong, specific and sustained immune response. Immunovaccine’s translational research team is focused on improving responses in advanced cancers by combining DepoVax based vaccines with novel immune modulators in order to improve clinical trial design. We have previously demonstrated that metronomic cyclophosphamide in combination with DepoVax vaccination increases CD8+ T cell responses in tumor bearing mice, and results were recapitulated in human clinical studies. In this project, DepoVax will be evaluated in combination with agonist antibodies towards the checkpoint molecules GITR and OX40 which are primarily expressed on T cells and are reported to enhance their activity. We will also evaluate combining DepoVax with a histamine antagonist that has reported to reduce immune suppressive cells induced by tumors. The results of this study will help to identify the best combinatorial treatments Immunovaccine should pursue in clinical testing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean Marshall

Student:

Partner:

IMV Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Biotechnology; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Pharmaceuticals

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Establishing Physiological Norms for Brain Activity using Portable Electroencephalography

There is much about the brain we still do not understand. But, one fundamental way to understand how the brain works is to know normal range of activity. For example, how does your physician know that you have normal blood pressure? Similarly, why did the medical community choose “120 over 80”? The way we do that is to collect information from as many individuals as possible – thousands upon thousands! When you collect information from many people, scientists are able to paint a very clear picture of how blood pressure (or any variable of interest) varies across many people. Amazingly (and unfortunately) we cannot say the same about brain activity. By using the MUSE device, that you can buy from any electronics retailer, we can begin that process of collecting information about brain activity. Therefore, we will define physiological norms and how you, as an individual, compare to the population average.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Olave Krigolson

Student:

Partner:

InteraXon Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Retail trade; Wholesale trade

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Online Risk-Driven Management Framework for Territorial Security in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks

Small teams of mobile robots provide nowadays the ability to assist wireless sensor networks in many threatening scenarios that unexpectedly arise during their operational lifetime. The perceived risk or vulnerability that the network is exposed to triggers an immediate, corporate action from the robotic agents (actuators). We focus on a sort of robots which are able to carry static sensors and deploy them all over the field. Our goal is to improve an existing risk-driven collaboration framework between stationary sensors and mobile carrier robots by incorporating an online clustering architecture to better visualize the spatial structure of the sensing nodes in the risk feature space. In this way, we can promptly react to the perceived irregularities in the system’s functioning. The proposed framework will be empirically validated in the context of a territorial security application.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amiya Nayak

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Optimal Two-Dimensional Energy Management of Grid-Connected Thermal/Electrical Hybrid Energy System

This project is designated to develop a next generation optimal two-dimensional energy management algorithm for a novel grid-connected thermal/electrical hybrid energy system. On-site implementation of the model and algorithm will be phased into a real community at an undisclosed location for performance evaluation. The results of this project can be directly used by the partner organization to reveal new energy generation and management products, which will have tremendous market potential due to the upcoming energy strategy change, as the Government of Canada is committed to a historic climate change agreement at COP 21.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hao Liang

Student:

Partner:

Pomphrey Industries Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

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