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Visualizing Fan Trends

The objective of this research project is to insight trends and associations between fans of various entertainment properties, the entertainment industry and the media properties themselves. The intern will begin by analyzing data from various sources such as product sales reports, market growth rates as well as data previously collected by the company. Based on the data, key factors will be extracted and employed in the analysis. Existing visualization techniques will be tested and if necessary, new methods will be created to better interpret the data.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ginger Grant

Student:

Rey Lim

Partner:

Zeros 2 Heroes Media

Discipline:

Interactive arts and technology

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Sustainable Community Economic Development in British Columbia

In this project, the intern will create a sustainable community economic development guide that will identify and document the current range of initiatives towards sustainable community economic development available to local governments in BC. This guide will outline the framework, methodology, tools, initiatives and resources available to local governments in BC striving to support local economies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Peter Hall

Student:

Andre Isakov

Partner:

Columbia Institute

Discipline:

Urban studies

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Social and Environmental Purchasing Portal

The intent of this internship is to undertake the research necessary to enable Vancity to develop a social and environmental purchasing portal. The target audience will be Vancity staff via their existing intranet, Insite. The research will focus on Vancity’s peer and micro-entrepreneurs, their social enterprises and its ‘green’ business members. The idea is to provide staff with a tool to help inform their purchasing habits for both corporate discretionary spending as well as personal buying. This ultimately supports Vancity’s community leadership pillars: acting on climate change, facing poverty and growing the social economy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ed Bukszar

Student:

Amanda Blair

Partner:

Vancity Credit Union

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Neural Correlates of Branding Effects across Different Media

The purpose of branding is to create high brand familiarity and positive brand image which contribute to the building of brand equity. The underlying mechanisms, both at a cognitive and electrophysiological level, are poorly understood. The main goal of this study will be the exploration of the electrophysiological correlates of branding of a familiar product and compare these effects across different media channels. If branding through TV, as explored in one study, produces a certain effect on brain waves, does branding in print and online produce the same or similar effect? The information obtained from this research can be used to either validate branding in the online space or by developing improvements for branding effects in certain media channels.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Mario Liotti

Student:

Isabel Taake

Partner:

Enquiro Search Solutions Inc.

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Low Platinum Loading Anode Electrocatalysts for Polymer Electrolyte

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells have great potential for mobile and stationary power applications. For such applications, this type of fuel cell must be capable of operating at a high power density with an ultra-low content of electrocatalyst to reduce its weight, volume and cost. Presently, the cost of this fuel cell is too high and this remains a major hindrance for commercialization. Thus, this proposed research addresses this issue with a novel Pt-sputtering based on mono or multi-layers of carbon material as anode. In the initial phase, the intern will investigate the correlation between sputter deposition methods, Nafion content in the ink and other operational parameters with respect to electrode performance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Jean Hamelin

Student:

Sadesh Natarajan

Partner:

Hydro-Québec

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Development of CFD Code for Marine Applications

The objective of this project is to develop a numerical tool to compute the viscous effects of ships and marine systems operating at the free surface. A level-set method will be developed to capture the free surface. Various turbulence models will be developed to model the turbulent flow around a ship. Validation studies will be carried out for benchmark ships such as the KRISO containership. The total resistance and flow fields at various sections of a ship will be computed and compared with experimental results

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Wei Qiu

Student:

Juntao Huang

Partner:

Oceanic Consulting Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Customer Segmentation Using Feature Set Generated from Customer Transaction Data

There is a high demand for automated fraud and money laundering detection and prevention systems since such activities costs millions to the financial industry every year. A key problem in detection techniques is the accurate and descriptive profiling of the accounts. Thus, it is important to identify the salient features in traction data that would enable us to accurately profile the accounts. Through accurate profiling of customer accounts the search for fraudulent activities can be narrowed down to high-risk group of accounts, which is much smaller than the total number of accounts which run up to the several million accounts. The project introduced under this proposal intends to develop the algorithms to identify a feature set from the account data. First salient features of the transactions will be identified. Then the dimension of the feature space will be reduced. Further customers will be segmented into groups of similar behaviour using the identified features and the appropriate metric. Finally, discriminate analysis will be performed to ensure integrity and to predict new customer segments.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. George K.I. Mann

Student:

Farid Arvani

Partner:

Verafin Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Cost Shifting of Pharmaceuticals from Public to Private Healthcare Payers

Pharmaceuticals are among the most commonly used and important healthcare treatments in Canada. They are also the second largest single healthcare expenditure and are the fastest increasing healthcare expenditure. For employers, pharmaceuticals are the largest component of their health benefits package and employees cite drugs as being the most valuable part of their employer-funded health benefits. Both public and private payers have a role to play in pharmaceuticals management but some evidence exists that private payers are paying for pharmaceuticals that otherwise would be covered by provincial drug plans. This study will quantify the magnitude of this issue in the largest benefits carrier in Atlantic Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Neil J. MacKinnon

Student:

Andrea Scobie

Partner:

Medavie Blue Cross

Discipline:

Epidemiology / Public health and policy

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

A Support System for Managing Failures of an Electronic Gaming Machine Environment

Computer systems, and in particular hosting servers such as Electronic Gaming Machines (EGM), have become very complex systems, and the requirement for 24/7 service requires fast correction of machine failures. Networks can include several thousands of devices, spread out over a geographic area of thousands of square kilometers. Maintenance and downtime can cost millions of dollars per year. System operators and technicians need the ability to monitor, diagnose, analyze and predict a problem from available information (events, alarms, diagnostic reports, log files etc.), in order to quickly perform the required corrective actions. The objective of this research is to utilize information retrieval and machine learning techniques to design and develop a semi automated decision support system for managing failures of an EGM environment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Nur Zincir-Heywood

Student:

Carlos Bacquet

Partner:

SPIELO

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Wasted Renewables and Marginal Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada’s Power Systems

Coal-fired and base-load natural gas power plants often continue to operate at a high capacity even when there is no demand for their electricity, because it is too expensive to reduce output only to increase it when demand picks up. This occurs primarily at night, when excess power needs to be dumped at whatever price can be obtained, even zero. Since wind and run-off-river generating facilities can reduce output most rapidly, coal and gas power will replace these renewable sources, thereby wasting renewables and causing greater emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere than need be. The current research project with Sempa Power Systems Ltd., a provider of hybrid heating systems that lowers costs and greenhouse emissions, addresses this issue by (1) looking at the coordination of power (and transmission line capacities) between two or more system operators (e.g. Ontario Hydro, Québec Hydro, Alberta System Operator and BC Hydro), and (2) examining opportunities and incentives for replacing natural gas used for space heating with electrical heating at times when renewable sources might be shut down.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. G. Cornelis van Kooten

Student:

Hugh Scorah

Partner:

Sempa Power Systems Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Using wireless location technologies in mobile video games

This research is part of the GéoÉduc3D project, funded by the Geomatics for Informed Decisions (GEOIDE) Network. It aims to propose educational interactive games based on geospatial technologies. The games would explore thematic questions of interest to youth and teenagers. The internship will focus on wireless location in interior spaces. More specifically, it will introduce the player's geographic real-time position in a mobile game in an efficient and robust way. Position information will be relayed via WiFi networks. Geolocation on this type of wireless network will be useful in dense urban centres where GPS satellite signals can easily be blocked by buildings. The method consists in detecting all available WiFi signals and applying innovative positioning and optimization algorithms to determine the player's current position. This project is in partnership with the GEOIDE NCE.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Sylvie Daniel

Student:

Valérie Kirouac

Partner:

Ubisoft studio de Québec

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Digital media

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

The stability of a virtual economic system

An online game allows players to earn virtual currency and to collect, sell and buy online prizes, in effect creating a self©contained virtual economy. There are indications that virtual gaming economies generate currency instabilities, increases in prices, and the accumulation of large virtual wealth holdings by some players. Such distortions can threaten the sustainability of the economy and the entertainment value for players. The project with Backstage Technologies Inc., a software company that creates games for social networks, seeks to characterize and analyze one such virtual game economy and propose methods to ensure its stability.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Graham Voss

Student:

Erica Zhou

Partner:

Backstage Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Economics

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

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