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Monitoring hair surface chemical modifications using atomic force microscopy

Since the beginning of recorded time, humans have been developing ways to make themselves more beautiful or
otherwise change their appearance. The hair-care industry itself has a huge global economic power: its estimated total
value is $47B annually. However, beauty does not come without a price: methods currently being used for hair
colouring and styling damage hair greatly. More importantly, they involve treatments that have negative effects on
human and environmental health.
To reduce the toxicity of hair-care treatments, SLI Beauty is developing new hair-surface chemical modification
techniques. I have partnered with them to bring my expertise at biophysical characterization to assess the success of
these surface modifications, and to develop new treatment modalities. With dedicated time spent onsite in the SLI
Beauty labs, I have the opportunity to bring my critical skills to help develop marketable products for this expanding
company.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nancy Forde

Student:

Partner:

Salon Label Inc

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Elevate

Detecting Vulnerabilities in Generative AI

This project, a collaboration between 3Tenets Consulting Inc. and Dr. Wenjing Zhang from the University of Guelph, seeks to address emerging security and privacy vulnerabilities associated with the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in enterprise environments. The initiative will focus on developing a prototype Privacy Leakage Assessment (PLA) Toolkit to evaluate and mitigate risks such as data extraction, membership inference, and prompt leakage attacks. Through systematic assessment, exploratory defense testing, and technical documentation, the project will provide 3Tenets with a preliminary framework to enhance its AI security offerings. This work supports the partner organization’s strategic goal of delivering advanced, privacy-aware cybersecurity solutions for clients adopting LLM-driven business applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wenjing Zhang

Student:

Partner:

3Tenets

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Human-Centered Design and Regulatory Strategy for a Digital Heart Failure Self-Management Tool

This project involves partnering with a medical device company focused on supporting older adults with heart failure through an innovative self-management software. Key activities include developing comprehensive documentation to support the company’s quality management system, contributing to a usability study to evaluate the software’s real-world impact, and refining the design to ensure it meets both user needs and regulatory standards. By strengthening the software’s development and testing processes, the project aims to enhance usability, safety, and compliance. This will help the company meet important regulatory milestones while contributing to a more reliable and accessible solution for older adults managing heart failure at home.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Milena Head

Student:

Partner:

CorLibra

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Algorithme de vision artificielle pour la navigation chirurgicale en laparoscopie

Scopia aide les chirurgiens à réaliser des chirurgies minimalement invasives guidées par caméra (endoscope, laparoscope, etc.). Notre solution ajoute des couches d’intelligence aux images pour améliorer la visualisation, la navigation, le diagnostic et l’intervention. Le stage s’inscrit dans un projet plus large de développement de navigation chirurgicale en laparoscopie. Le but du projet est de superposer, en temps réel pendant la chirurgie, l’anatomie non exposée sur des images de laparoscopie.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aaron Courville

Student:

Partner:

Scopia Tech

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Le camp de l’AJBQ : modéliser et évaluer les effets d’un camp estival visant la confiance comme communicateur·rice

Ce projet de recherche, mené en partenariat avec l’Association des Jeunes Bègues du Québec (AJBQ), vise à évaluer l’impact de leur camp estival visant à augmenter la confiance comme communicateur·rice chez les jeunes qui bégaient. L’objectif principal est de comprendre comment cette nouvelle approche influence le bien-être des participants et de créer un cadre d’évaluation que l’AJBQ pourra utiliser de manière autonome à l’avenir. Une évaluation réaliste sera mise en place pour mieux comprendre les mécanismes d’actions du camp à l’aide à des entrevues, de l’observation participative et des questionnaires. Ces informations permettront non seulement d’ajuster les activités du camp pour répondre aux besoins des jeunes, mais aussi d’assurer que cette initiative continue d’apporter des bénéfices durables. Pour l’AJBQ, ce projet offre une opportunité précieuse d’améliorer et de pérenniser son approche, tout en renforçant son rôle de leader dans le soutien des personnes qui bégaient.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ingrid Verduyckt

Student:

Partner:

Association des jeunes bègues du Québec

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Homo/Hetero Hybrid Dyadic Systems for Artificial Photosynthesis

Climate change is one of the main concerns of our society and is closely linked to the large consumption of fossil fuels and their associated carbon emissions. An appealing alternative is the production of hydrogen from water, powered by sunlight. Our project aims to develop a first family of efficient hybrid dyadic catalysts for this purpose. These catalysts will combine a molecular light-absorbing unit, known as photosensitiser (PS), anchored to the surface of a metallic nanoparticle (NP), which will act as the catalyst. A first-of-its-kind hybrid dyadic system was recently developed in a collaborative work between the University of Montreal and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In this project, we will address the issues found in the first-generation catalysts. For this, we will design tailored PSs with improved properties, which we expect to increase the hydrogen production. In addition, we will work towards a second-generation of hybrid dyadic systems able to perform overall water splitting upon sunlight irradiation. In this way, both institutions will work together in expanding our knowledge of this unexplored field of research, which will enable the rational design of new efficient hybrid materials.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Garry S. Hanan

Student:

Partner:

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Environmental Science and Technology; Green/Alternative Energy; Nanotechnology

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Awareness to Action: Understanding Employers’ Motivations for Building Disability Confidence

This community based participatory research project will seek to understand the motivational, capability, and opportunity factors that enable SMEs to hire people with disabilities, and to investigate what kinds of messaging strategies are effective in encouraging employers to develop their capacity for disability inclusive hiring. The project will be conducted in collaboration with the Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work (CCRW – a national disability employment non-profit service provider) to enhance their advocacy efforts by informing effective communication strategies, including how to design messages that are persuasive to employer audiences. Methods will include a literature review, in-depth qualitative interviews with disability inclusive SME employers across Canada and co-designing recommendations for the development of employer-informed marketing and communication tools for CCRW to use to motivate disability inclusive hiring among other SMEs across Canada. The findings from this research will allow the organization to reach new employers by communicating the value of disability inclusion, and the benefits of engaging CCRW for support and resources on workplace inclusion. The findings from this project will benefit Canada by developing evidence-informed employment service provision to help close the gap between the employment demands of SMEs and the supply of potential workers with disabilities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexis Buettgen

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Wilfrid Laurier University

Program:

Accelerate

Improving the efficiency of the supersonic binary fluid ejector using computational fluid dynamic modeling – Year two

The only commercially available technology that directly uses thermal energy to produce cooling is absorption chillers,
which are not economical for small-medium scale buildings (<100,000 sq.ft.) and suffer from serious performance limitations. May-Ruben Thermal Solutions (MRTS) is developing a novel Binary Fluid Ejector (BFE) that will provide a high-performance, economic, scalable, thermally-driven heat pump and refrigeration cycle. Early applications include space cooling/heating for residential and commercial buildings, providing economic savings and GHG reductions. MRTS is currently constructing a laboratory BFE prototype. The proposed project includes research needed to support the development of an alpha prototype which consists of a closed-loop recirculating BFE heat pump system, including 3-D computational fluids dynamic (CFD) to be performed by the candidate. This modeling work will enable the design of geometrically optimized ejectors that maintain their performance when used in applications with higher temperature differences, such as space cooling, where traditional ejectors rapidly loose efficiency.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David H Wood;David H. Wood

Student:

Partner:

May-Ruben Thermal Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Retail trade

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Elevate

Leveraging Advanced NLP Models and LLMs for Document Set Understanding with Multi-documents semantic relations

Docugami is a document engineering company registered in British Columbia that transforms how businesses create and execute critical business documents. Leveraging breakthrough Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) Docugami enhances productivity, compliance, and insight across industries such as finance, law, and business operations.
This project addresses a key challenge or objective for Docugami—improving document set understanding by developing advanced methodologies of understanding, chunking and extracting semantics relations across large collections of similar types of business documents. Traditional approaches struggle with complex document structures, limiting automation and knowledge discovery. Additionally, effective connections and understanding relations between document information— which usually are lost in the documents—plays a vital role in driving business efficiency, streamlining processes, and
unlocking valuable insights within the business sector.
The anticipated benefits for Docugami include enhanced AI-driven document intelligence, leading to more accurate information retrieval, document summarization, and knowledge extraction; and improved ability to create integrated and intelligent business systems, providing better service for small businesses’ or large organizations’ needs. The project also aims to contribute to the open-source community by documenting findings, code sharing, and collaborating on projects related to document understanding using LLMs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gerald Penn

Student:

Partner:

Docugami Canada, Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

RationalTek : Plateforme d’architecture intégrée en IA

RationalTek : Plateforme d’architecture intégrée en IA
Principales activités du partenaire :
RationalTek vise à rendre les organisations plus performantes en les soutenant dans leur projet de transformation organisationnelle par le biais de la mise en place d’une architecture d’entreprise orientée service (AEOS) innovante et pragmatique.
Problématique :
Le projet global consiste à développer une plateforme d’architecture qui sert à la fois d’outil d’architecture d’entreprise et d’architecture de solution. Cette plateforme repose sur un métamodèle complet qui définit les
concepts et relations clés associées à l’EA et à l’AS. L’objectif principal est d’intégrer un moteur d’intelligence artificielle, basé sur un modèle de langage avancé (LLM), capable d’interagir avec ce métamodèle pour fournir des réponses contextuelles et guider les utilisateurs dans des tâches telles que l’ingénierie avancée (forward engineering) et autres cas d’utilisation IA. Par exemple, un utilisateur pourrait interroger le système sur les “Services Applicatifs” associés à une “Fonction Applicative” spécifique, comme l’audit, et obtenir des propositions précises basées sur le métamodèle.
Avantages escomptés du projet :
La plateforme LANA propose une solution intelligente et intuitive qui facilite la conception et la modélisation des architectures tout en optimisant le suivi des projets. Son adoption permet aux entreprises de réduire le temps consacré à la modélisation et à l’architecture, de gagner grandement en efficacité et en qualité tout en réduisant les coûts de dépassement et le taux d’échec des projets.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christian Gagné;Richard Khoury

Student:

Partner:

RationalTek

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Mise au point d’un dispositif de traitement électrochimique de l’eau potable des puits isolés

Ce projet de recherche de 4 mois vise à comprendre les raisons des dysfonctionnements observés sur des systèmes pilotes utilisant une technologie électrochimique pour traiter le sulfure d’hydrogène (H2S) dans l’eau de puits résidentiels isolés. En étudiant deux contextes géologiques différents, nous analyserons les paramètres géochimiques et opérationnels qui influencent l’efficacité du traitement. Le projet inclut des analyses en laboratoire et sur le terrain, des tests électrochimiques, une modélisation prédictive, et le développement d’un guide technique pour les opérateurs. Les résultats permettront d’identifier les seuils critiques de certains composants chimiques et de proposer des solutions concrètes pour améliorer les performances des installations défectueuses. Ces travaux offriront à l’organisation partenaire une meilleure compréhension des facteurs limitants et un protocole optimisé pour la maintenance des électrodes, garantissant ainsi une amélioration rapide des systèmes existants et posant les bases pour des avancées futures dans le traitement du H2S.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benoit Courcelles

Student:

Partner:

Contrôles Moana

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Improving the efficiency of the supersonic binary fluid ejector using computational fluid dynamic modeling

The only commercially available technology that directly uses thermal energy to produce cooling is absorption chillers,
which are not economical for small-medium scale buildings (<100,000 sq.ft.) and suffer from serious performance limitations. May-Ruben Thermal Solutions (MRTS) is developing a novel Binary Fluid Ejector (BFE) that will provide a high-performance, economic, scalable, thermally-driven heat pump and refrigeration cycle. Early applications include space cooling/heating for residential and commercial buildings, providing economic savings and GHG reductions. MRTS is currently constructing a laboratory BFE prototype. The proposed project includes research needed to support the development of an alpha prototype which consists of a closed-loop recirculating BFE heat pump system, including 3-D computational fluids dynamic (CFD) to be performed by the candidate. This modeling work will enable the design of geometrically optimized ejectors that maintain their performance when used in applications with higher temperature differences, such as space cooling, where traditional ejectors rapidly loose efficiency.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David H. Wood

Student:

Partner:

May-Ruben Thermal Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Retail trade

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Elevate

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