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13270 Completed Projects

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Projects by Category

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Engineering - biomedical
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Engineering - chemical / biological

Synthesis and Applications of Graphane

Chemists at the University of Victoria, in collaboration with Epic Ventures Inc., have developed a new process for manufacturing a novel 2-dimensional nanomaterial that stands to make a significant contribution to the development of new devices for hydrogen storage, advanced electronics, transistors, electron–phonon superconductors, and highly-sensitive nanosensors. Although highly hydrogenated graphite (also know as “graphane”) is known to have exceptional electronic, chemical, optical, magnetic, and thermal properties, it has always been difficult to manufacture and store. This Mitacs project will build on two previous Mitacs Accelerate projects to optimize this new graphane production process so that it can be scaled up for commercialization and investigated for specific applications

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexandre Brolo

Student:

Minh Hai Tran

Partner:

Epic Ventures

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Production and Characterization of Lead-203 for Radiotheranostic Molecular Imaging

With the high prevalence of cancer in the Canadian population, the need for rapid, personalized diagnostic tests is as evident as ever. Nuclear imaging allows for the visualization and diagnosis of diseases, including cancer, by detecting the emitted radiation from an administered disease-seeking molecule that has been labeled with a radioactive isotope (radiotracer). Lead-203 (203Pb) is a radioactive isotope compatible with single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), a proven imaging technique. Although 203Pb has been previously produced, the poor chemical purity of the isotope has hindered radiopharmaceutical advancement. This proposal aims to establish an automated manufacturing method to produce 203Pb in collaboration with our industry partner, ARTMS Inc., which will commercialize this technology to make this high-purity isotope available for use by nuclear medicine researchers and physicians on an international basis to improve cancer diagnostic techniques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Caterina Ramogida

Student:

Brooke Lynn McNeil

Partner:

ARTMS

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Preserving Affordable Rental Housing: Tenant Opportunity to Purchase, Housing Cooperatives, and Land Trusts

Housing is becoming increasingly unaffordable in Canadian cities and tenants are struggling. Financialized landlords and other investment companies are depleting the affordable rental stock in the private market much faster than new social rental units are being created. One solution is for tenants to have the opportunity to collectively purchase their own buildings when landlords decide to sell. Tenants could convert buildings to limited-equity housing cooperatives leased from a land trust for the long term. In this way, tenants avoid displacement and achieve housing security, and buildings are converted to permanently affordable housing for future generations. Such programs already exists in several American cities, under Tenant Opportunity to Purchase (TOP) policies. This research, conducted in partnership with the Hamilton Community Land Trust, will evaluate the feasibility of such a program in Hamilton, Ontario. If successful in Hamilton, similar programs could be adopted by land trusts across Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Katharine Rankin

Student:

Emily Power

Partner:

Ontario Professional Planners Institute

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Real estate and rental and leasing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

High-fidelity, Directable Animation Transfer for Dubbing

The entertainment industry delivers media products around the world to people speaking a large number of distinct languages. To accommodate different languages, the producers typically re-generate the sound stream in different languages in a post-production step, but they leave the same video footage resulting in the desynchronization between the audio and video content, creating an unnatural effect. In this project we are developing and extending a set of tools and techniques to naturally synthesize the video footage to match the audio track eliminating the visual artifacts. Such methods and tools will help create higher quality video and audio content that can be easier “translated” to any language increasing the competitive edge of the company as well as the dubbing industry as a whole.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tiberiu Popa;Eric Paquette

Student:

Dhyey Patel

Partner:

Productions Audio Z Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Promoting Equity in Online Learning through Understanding and Supporting Cognitive Needs

Learning Management Systems (LMSs) enable schools to offer education online. This is helpful during the current COVID times. It is important that every learner is able to participate in the online learning experience. For this, the needs of learners with disabilities must be supported. Many of these are cognitive needs; they involve thinking, feeling, focusing, and understanding. Such needs are not understood as much as the needs around seeing, hearing, and operating a computer.
To address this gap, the University of Toronto and D2L Corporation (makers of Brightspace LMS) are jointly undertaking this research project. The goal of the project is to make online learning more inclusive through gaining a better understanding of the cognitive needs of online learners and the possible mechanisms for supporting those needs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Colin Furness

Student:

Melissa Kumaresan

Partner:

D2L Corporation

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Towards an Understanding of Best Practices in Goal Attainment Scaling Implementation and Feasibility

When a patient seeks treatment, it is crucial to involve them in the decision-making process. One way to do this is to have a scale/measure that allows for the patient’s input on the goals that are most relevant to them. Goal attainment scaling is one measure that involves patients by including a collaborative goal setting process between the physician and patient. However, this scale is rarely used in clinical practice settings as there are no published clear guidelines to apply the scale. To help with this problem, I will work with the team at Ardea Outcomes, who have advocated for patient’s voices in clinical care for over two decades. I will search for published research studies that used goal attainment scaling to identify the best practices and test the impact of these practices by running computer simulations. By the end of this project, we aim to have a document with clear guidelines on how to use goal attainment scaling for clinicians and researchers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jacqueline Cummine;Bill Hodgetts

Student:

Kulpreet Cheema

Partner:

Ardea Outcomes Inc

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing the acoustic and physical disturbances of marine traffic on the Northern Resident Killer Whales in the Robson Bight Michael Bigg Ecological Reserve

The northern resident killer whale (NRKW) population off British Columbia’s coast is considered ‘threatened’ within Canada. Recent studies have shown that NRKWs face many threats, with a key stressor being the negative interaction with commercial and recreational vessel traffic. The Robson Bight Michael Bigg Ecological Reserve is a marine protected area in Johnstone Strait, east of Northern Vancouver Island. NRKWs migrate here in the summer to hunt, mate, and perform their unique “rubbing behaviour”. This ecological reserve has been the focus of a “voluntary” no-entry protected area to reduce physical disturbance to whales from boats. However, the Robson Bight Warden Program implemented through the Cetus Research and Conservation Society continuously observes vessels within its boundaries. To support this warden program, two MSc students will be stationed during the summer of 2021 at West Cracroft Island to collect daily visual and acoustic observations of commercial and recreational vessels along with all cetaceans in the region within and adjacent to the Ecological Reserve. Students aim to compare the level of anthropogenic disturbance from boat traffic, and focus efforts on determining why, when and how long NRKW choose to rub.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ruth Joy

Student:

Madeleine Bouvier;Varsha Rani

Partner:

CETUS Research and Conservation Society

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Barcode Image Enhancement Using Deep Learning

The use of barcodes to store alphanumeric information has spread from supermarkets to department stores, the health industry and even on the back of our drivers’ license. Recent years have also seen demand to increase the density of information encoded in barcodes. A Drivers’ License has its personal data encoded in the barcode on the back of the document, and the data embedded is often used as part of an identification/verification process. However, the camera captured picture of the barcode is susceptible to quality degradation and even slight perturbances in the image quality of the barcode (e.g. out-of-focus blur, motion blur, non-optimal lighting) causes failures in its readability. In this project, we aim to use artificial intelligence techniques (specifically deep learning) to improve the quality of Drivers’ License 2D barcode captured with the mobile device cameras in a way that improves its readability for identification or verification purposes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Student:

Vahid Reza Khazaie

Partner:

Applied Recognition Corp

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Homelessness Prevention at Covenant House Toronto

The proposed research project to be undertaken by the intern is concerning the use of preventative measures to combat youth homelessness and trafficking in Toronto through Covenant House Toronto. Youth homelessness and trafficking are on the rise and researching how prevention for this vulnerable population can be utilized has the potential to significantly reduce rates of youth homelessness and trafficking in Toronto. The project will use both quantitative and qualitative methods of analyzing existing Covenant House Toronto data on the youth that are experiencing or have experienced homelessness and/ or trafficking. The intern will be working towards completing a high-level report that implements the findings and trends from the data to generate recommendations on the next steps to undertake for a youth homelessness prevention strategic plan.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Victoria Esses;Paul Tremblay

Student:

Enieda Baja

Partner:

Covenant House Toronto

Discipline:

Economics

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Hydrologic regulating services of non-woody grassed and meadow urban landscapes

Due to urbanization in the GTA, many green areas are replaced by impervious infrastructure, preventing runoff infiltration and increasing flood risks. The Meadoway project proposed by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) aims to restore meadow habitats with native plants along a hydro-corridor over 16 km across Scarborough, which can potentially improve the runoff retention and reduction capacity of the land due to the larger and longer roots, greater root density, and different evapotranspiration patterns of native plants compared with pre-restored turf and non-native cultural meadows. The proposed research will investigate the hydrologic response of meadows to storm events compared with turf lands, hardscaping, and potentially non- native cultural meadows. Laboratory rainfall simulation will be conducted upon intact soil columns collected from the field to mimic hydrologic process including rainfall, runoff, infiltration, and subsurface discharge. The results of the study can help TRCA develop plans for long-term assessment and aid the planning and management of future restoration project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jennifer Drake

Student:

Ke Qin

Partner:

Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Evolutionary Housing Strategies for Canadian Cities

This project examines the feasibility of low-cost evolutionary housing strategies to accommodate changing uses in Canada. It is a partnership between the University of Waterloo school of Architecture and architect John van Nostrand who has developed numerous prototypes for evolutionary housing in Canada and internationally. The research will begin with an analysis of existing prototypes in order to develop best practices. It will then test the feasibility of two types of evolutionary housing on sites in Toronto: the first, from the ground up, which starts low rise and builds up, the second, above ground, which starts with an existing building or structural frame and builds within. Both types will be tested through both a financial proforma and a life-cycle analysis to determine their environmental performance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Adrian Blackwell

Student:

Maria Luiza Ottoni

Partner:

SvN Architects and Planners

Discipline:

Architecture and design

Sector:

Other

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

HypeBite Strategy AI

The project is to build the plan of AI implementation to be integrated in our technological solution. HypeBite provides solution for food industry designed to optimized food marketing. The solution aims to help consumer to reduce food waste and agri-food business to independently promote their products.
Our team needs to integrate technical knowledge and collaborate with expert in AI to build the technological strategy. The goal of this project is to plan the development of a recommendation system and recognition system with as objective to implement AI with in-house future tech team

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eugene Belilovsky

Student:

Kevin Shah

Partner:

HypeBite

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Concordia University

Program:

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