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Multi-turn Problem Solving Workflows with Deep Research

ServiceNow develops a platform for client organizations to manage and automate large-scale processes across various industries. In 2020, ServiceNow acquired Element AI to strengthen its presence in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) research landscape and the Canadian AI ecosystem. This acquisition enabled the development of AI-driven products that improve the platform’s capabilities. ServiceNow Research has made significant contributions to the field of foundation models, notably in Natural Language Processing (NLP), and has a strong presence in developing generative models for different data domains.
(2) the challenges the partner aims to solve through this project
Modern enterprises grapple with fragmented knowledge spread across emails, chats, and internal documents, making traditional knowledge systems insufficient. This project will develop multi-turn deep-research agents that autonomously identify information gaps, integrate unstructured data, and deliver concise, reliable reports tailored to enterprise needs. By addressing these challenges, the partner aims to create advanced AI agents capable of transforming scattered communications into actionable insights, streamlining investigative reasoning and enhancing decision-making across teams.
(3) the anticipated social or economic benefits of the project for the partner organization(s)
By enhancing the performance, interactivity, and trustworthiness of deep research agents, major productivity gains could be observed in the enterprise setting, where knowledge work remain a bottleneck and acquiring up-to-date information from knowledge-bases is a key challenge. To encourage further research in multi-turn deep research agents, we plan to open source the findings of this project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laks Lakshmanan;Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Student:

Partner:

ServiceNow Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Quantitative Evaluation of AR-Guided 3D Ultrasound Reconstruction: Accuracy, Robustness, and Feasibility Study

This project evaluates how augmented reality (AR) guidance can enhance the accuracy and usability of 3D ultrasound reconstruction. By leveraging AR interfaces and camera-tracking technology, the study will compare AR-assisted ultrasound reconstructions with traditional methods, focusing on metrics such as spatial alignment, volume accuracy, and signal quality. Experiments will use controlled setups, including phantoms and simulated scanning scenarios, to assess performance under varying conditions.
This project delivers a rigorous assessment of AR’s effectiveness in improving ultrasound imaging workflows. It will contribute to the development of low-cost, automated ultrasound systems and advance research in human-computer interaction for medical imaging. The outcomes will support efforts to make diagnostic imaging technology more reliable and accessible.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Houssem Gueziri

Student:

Partner:

Université Paris Cité

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Education

University:

Université TÉLUQ

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Agent ClickBait Attacks

ServiceNow develops a platform for client organizations to manage and automate large-scale processes across various industries. In 2020, ServiceNow acquired Element AI to strengthen its presence in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) research landscape and the Canadian AI ecosystem. This acquisition enabled the development of AI-driven products that improve the platform’s capabilities. ServiceNow Research has made significant contributions to the field of foundation models, notably in Natural Language Processing (NLP), and has a strong presence in developing generative models for different data domains.
This project addresses the risks posed by visually deceptive or manipulative stimuli to autonomous vision-language agents, which can lead to subtle, context-dependent errors in perception and reasoning. Unlike traditional pixel-level attacks, clickbait-style manipulations exploit cognitive biases, threatening the reliability and security of agents in sensitive domains. By analyzing these vulnerabilities and developing defences, the project aims to enhance agent robustness, ensuring safe deployment of vision-language agents.
This project supports the deployment of vision-language agents designed for use in safety-sensitive areas. Currently, user-interface (UI) agents are mainly restricted to HTML; limiting the scope of automated task completion. The results of this research will be made open source to promote further studies in this field.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gauthier Gidel

Student:

Partner:

ServiceNow Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating Clinical Trials in Canada

This project aims to assess how drug clinical trials in Canada approach the inclusion and exclusion of people who are pregnant, lactating or who have the potential to become pregnant. This is necessary because pregnant and lactating individuals have been historically excluded from clinical trials, limiting knowledge on treatment safety and efficacy for this population. The review will identify and synthesize the characteristics of drug clinical trials registered on clinicaltrials.gov with recruitment in Canada from May 2013 to December 2024, focusing on their inclusion and exclusion criteria related to pregnancy and lactation, the condition under study, and other trial features. The findings will identify research areas where these individuals are routinely excluded, highlight treatment gaps on relevant conditions, and help inform trialists and funders on strategies to target their inclusion in future studies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jennifer Brooks

Student:

Partner:

Maternal Infant Child and Youth Research Network

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Upstream collaboration, downstream benefits: evaluating participatory governance models for flow-controlled watersheds

Collaborative governance in natural resource management is increasingly recognized as essential for addressing complex environmental problems involving interdependent parties. In water management, for example, optimizing flows requires balancing diverse rights-holder and stakeholder interests including infrastructure operations, municipal needs, and fish habitat. The lack of robust evaluation frameworks limits the potential for adaptive management and the ability to demonstrate value to finders and participants. The objective of this project is to establish a context-specific framework for evaluating effectiveness of collaborative governance processes in watershed management planning.
West Coast Aquatic (WCA) is a non-profit society that supports collaboration in natural resource management, especially related to water and fisheries. This committee provides informed recommendations on flow rates, pulse flows, and water storage during increasingly frequent summer drought months when salmon are most vulnerable. A challenge WCA faces is demonstrating the effectiveness of collaborative approaches with clear success metrics to sustain stakeholder participation, secure funding, and improve collaborative governance processes. This research will deliver practical value to WCA with validated, replicable metrics that demonstrate collaborative effectiveness to funders, government partners, and stakeholders. Socially, transparent and accountable collaborative processes will build trust among diverse stakeholders and create replicable models for watershed management across British Columbia.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Harry Nelson

Student:

Partner:

West Coast Aquatic

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Exploring Compassionate Care while Scaling Digital Health Innovations

To achieve population-wide benefits, artificial intelligence and digital healthcare tools and services must scale to new settings without losing their impact. Our goal is to identify challenges and facilitators to maintaining compassionate care throughout the scaling process, based on the experiences of 15-20 people with lived/living experience who have partnered on scaling projects. We will explore how compassionate and person-centered care can be preserved and provide patient-informed strategies to guide the scaling-up of these projects. To achieve this aim, the student will help co-conduct these interviews alongside partners with lived experience who have received training in conducting interviews. Interview transcripts will then be analyses, and we will work together as a team to identify and share key messages that will support compassion to remain part of the scaling process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lori Ross

Student:

Partner:

Women's College Hospital

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Effect of the incorporation of either Mg or Zn on the biocompatibility of calcium silicates

This project focuses on developing advanced bone graft materials made from calcium silicates, enhanced with magnesium or zinc ions. These materials are designed to help bones heal faster and reduce the risk of infections associated with implants. During the project, I will work closely with Dr. Barrelet’s team at McGill University to test the biological and antibacterial properties of these materials, including in vivo studies that cannot be performed at my home institution. The project will benefit McGill by providing new materials to study in biologically relevant conditions, and it will benefit CINVESTAV by expanding expertise from material characterization to biological performance. Ultimately, the project aims to contribute to safer, more effective bone implants and strengthen the collaboration between the two institutions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jake E. Barralet

Student:

Partner:

Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Building a directory of local seafood harvesters participating in direct-to-consumer seafood systems in Canada

Small-scale fisheries and the seafood systems they support in Canada are not well understood. It is unknown exactly how many people participate in small-scale fisheries, the types of fisheries operations they have, or where they sell their catch. The Ecology Action Centre (EAC) hosts a network called Local Catch Canada (LCC) , which is a practitioner-driven network interested in peer-to-peer information sharing and support, focused on building an equitable, community-based seafood system in Canada. This network is interested in identifying and bringing together seafood harvesters throughout the lands and waters colonially known as Canada who are interested in providing seafood products to local and regional communities. To do this, EAC, LCC, the academic partner, and the intern will create an inventory and public map of any and all people who participate in small-scale seafood harvest or cultivation (i.e., kelp) and are providing their product to local communities and food systems. The outcome of this project will be to identify who is currently working in Canada’s small-scale seafood systems, where they are working and providing their product, and share that information via an interactive, open-source map. The goal is to connect seafood harvesters and strengthen Canadian seafood systems through information sharing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hannah Harrison

Student:

Partner:

Ecology Action Centre

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Scalable PDF Rendering Infrastructure Upgrade for Digital Construction Estimating Platform

This project involves upgrading the PDF rendering infrastructure for Quantify, a digital construction estimating platform. The current in-house PDF engine was originally designed for AI training purposes and lacks the features, performance, and scalability required for displaying construction drawings and specifications in a cloud-based environment.
The existing system has significant limitations including missing critical functionality such as drawing overlays (essential for construction workflows), unreliable measurement tools, frequent rendering failures, and an unmaintainable codebase that prevents the addition of new features. These technical constraints have directly impacted client satisfaction and the platform’s ability to scale.
The project will replace the legacy system with Nutrient, a commercially supported, PDF specification-compliant rendering engine. The intern will be responsible for integrating and modifying the Nutrient SDK to work within Quantify’s architecture, including code customization, rigorous testing across various construction document types, and developing new features to achieve feature parity with the current engine while extending capabilities beyond existing limitations. This upgrade will deliver improved performance, enhanced reliability, and comprehensive feature capabilities necessary for professional construction document processing. The new solution will provide robust measurement tools, drawing overlay functionality, and a stable foundation for future feature development.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Md Moniruzzaman

Student:

Partner:

Patabid Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Thompson Rivers University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Modern User Interface Platform Migration for Consolidated Multi-Technology System Integration

PataBid Quantify is a construction estimating software platform that helps construction professionals manage bids and project estimates. Our current user interface was built using multiple free, open-source tools pieced together during our early bootstrapped startup phase when we couldn’t afford commercial development solutions. While this approach allowed us to launch our product, it has created a patchwork interface that lacks consistency and polish. Users have reported glitches and bugs, and we’ve recently lost two important sales because prospective clients found our inconsistent interface untrustworthy compared to well-established competitors. Having now secured two pre-seed funding rounds and working toward Series A, we’re ready to modernize our platform by migrating to Kendo UI—a professional, commercially supported interface framework. This project will systematically replace our fragmented components with a unified, polished interface that looks and feels professional throughout. The intern will audit our existing interface, design the new unified system, implement the changes, test thoroughly, and help deploy the modernized platform. This transformation exceeds our internal team’s capacity while they maintain daily operations, and it will directly enhance our market competitiveness and restore client confidence in our software.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Zeinab Teimoori

Student:

Partner:

Patabid Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Thompson Rivers University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Development of Hybrid Photocatalytic Systems Integrating CdS QDs and Metal Complexes

For more than 20 years, quantum dots have provided profound insights into the quantum mechanical principles governing light–matter interactions at the nanoscale. In the field of solar fuels production, quantum dots have become an essential platform for studying quantum-controlled photocatalysis owing to their tunable electronic structures enable precise control of charge separation and redox properties. On the other hand, transition metal complexes have been utilized both as photosensitizers and as catalysts for the photocatalytic conversion, due to their favorable photochemical and electrochemical properties, highly tunable reactivity and selectivity, and structural flexibility. This project focuses on developing a hybrid system integrating CdS quantum dots and metal complexes to promote visible-light-driven hydrogen evolution and CO2 conversion in fully aqueous media. By optimizing the preparation method of hybrid photocatalyst, we aim to control the catalytic activity and stability toward hydrogen evolution and CO2 reduction. By improving solar-to-fuel conversion efficiency, this research directly tackles the global dependence on fossil fuels and the associated carbon emissions, addressing both energy security and climate change mitigation challenges that affect modern societies and industries. Furthermore, collaborations with international partners would enable both institutions to exchange advanced methodologies and strengthen their research capacity for solar fuel production.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Garry Hanan

Student:

Partner:

Kyushu University

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Évaluer les effets bénéfiques des exopolysaccharides de bactéries probiotiques sur la santé buccodentaire

Ce projet met en valeur le potentiel des EPS issus de souches probiotiques en tant que biomolécules d’intérêt thérapeutique. Nous serons en mesure de démontrer leur efficacité contre les pathogènes responsables des infections, tout en validant et consolidant leurs propriétés anti-inflammatoires sur des modèles cellulaires gingivaux. L’extraction, la purification et la caractérisation approfondie des EPS permettront d’explorer le mécanisme d’action de ces EPS en se basant sur la relation structure-activité ainsi que leur rôle dans la modulation de la réponse immunitaire et dans la réduction de l’inflammation induite par les infections bucco-dentaires.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mahmoud Rouabhia

Student:

Partner:

The University of Monastir 

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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Mitacs is funded by the Government of Canada, the Government of Alberta, the Government of British Columbia, Research Manitoba, the Government of New Brunswick, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Government of Nova Scotia, the Government of Ontario, Innovation PEI, the Government of Quebec, the Government of Saskatchewan, and the Government of Yukon.