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Optimization of Long Term Quantitative Market Predictions

Financial markets today are monitored and controlled by machine learning algorithms. The primary objective of this project is to further develop the algorithm for financial market analysis and prediction that the partner possesses at the moment. The algorithm currently demonstrates high accuracy, subject to certain constraints, among which: a small time interval between a prediction and the actual event and not highly efficient computation of indicators. In addition, the current algorithm is missing any form of analysis of the dynamics of distances to training clusters. These drawbacks are proposed to be eliminated. Additional set of market events will trigger computation of prediction to increase the time span between a prediction and the predicted event. Some of the computation will be done in parallel, potentially using a GPU, since the current model can be easily parallelized. To estimate the relationship between the distances to the training clusters and its dynamics, functional analysis will be deployed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Stephen M. Watt

Student:

Vadim Mazalov

Partner:

Cyborg Trading Systems

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Low-Energy Transfer Trajectory Design and Optimization for Space Exploration

 

Design tradeoff must be made between the scientific payload and the spacecraft platform in a space mission. Scientists often want to have as many instruments as possible on the spacecraft and they also want to be able to use those instruments until the end of the mission. The scientist’s desire for many instruments translates to a requirement for maximum final mass. Because the initial spacecraft mass is typically predetermined by the launch vehicle, currently the main approach to increase the final mass is to reduce the amount of propellant required for maneuvers during the mission. In our research, we will investigate low-energy interplanetary transfer approach using multi-body system theory. Our industry partner is currently working on several space exploration missions and trajectory optimization is a key technology for the success of their missions. The outcome of this project will greatly enhance our partner's competitiveness in space industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. JinJun Shan

Student:

Multiple

Partner:

MPB Communications

Discipline:

Engineering - other

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Sediment Removal Frequency Optimization for Wet-Detention Stormwater Management Ponds

Sediment build-up in stormwater management ponds decreases their overall capacity to hold water and reduces their efficiency, in terms of controlling pollution. For this reason, and in order to comply with government regulations, municipalities must remove the sediment periodically. Determining when maintenance is required is difficult because it depends on a number of factors, and the actual cost of sediment removal from a wet pond is difficult to predict. The results obtained from this internship will directly benefit the Town of Richmond Hill in determining the schedule of maintenance activities for their wet ponds, potentially providing cost-savings to the municipality. The Sernas Group will benefit from the developed sediment loading model, which they will be able to utilize in future similar projects in Ontario. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Darko Joksimovic

Student:

Rishon Richard

Partner:

Town of Richmond Hill

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Accelerate

Conducting a Pilot Study of Effective Smoking Cessation Treatment Interventions for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness Who are Homeless or Vulnerably Housed

 

The intern will be assisting in the implementation of a research project that is intended to assess the effectiveness of two different smoking reduction/cessation interventions within a population of people with serious mental illness who are vulnerably housed or homeless. The partner agency, the Canadian Mental Health Association Ottawa Branch, is interested in the study, due to the high proportion of the organization's clients who smoke tobacco, demonstrate nicotine dependency, and express a desire to reduce or cease smoking. At the conclusion of the study, presentations on the findings of the research project will be made by the principle investigator to staff, managers, board of directors, and clients of the partner organization, and highlights of findings will be incorporated into the organization's annual report. If found to be effective, the approach studied in the present project could be replicated by the partner organization, allowing them to better serve their clients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Tim Aubry

Student:

Jennifer Rae

Partner:

Canadian Mental Health Association - Ottawa Branch

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Role of Fluid Redistribution in the Pathogenesis of Sleep Apnea

 

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common respiratory disorder in adult population where it increases the mortality risk. The main treatment of OSA is continuous positive airway pressure and although it is effective in most cases, many cannot tolerate it. Therefore, it is important to develop new treatments for sleep apnea. We have proposed that fluid which is accumulated in the legs during day moves towards the head when lay down to sleep. The consequent accumulation of fluid in the neck could be a major contributor to the development of OSA. To test this hypothesis, we aim to determine whether intravenous fluid infusion during sleep will cause fluid accumulation in the neck, narrow the throat and induce OSA. If so, a new approach for the therapy of sleep apnea would be to prevent fluid accumulation in the legs during and its displacement into the neck at night. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. T. Douglas Bradley

Student:

Azadeh Yadollahi

Partner:

Toronto Rehabilitation Institute

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Design and evaluation of Child Health Index of Life with Disabilities(CHILD) as perceived by children with severe developmental disabilities

 

Cerebral Palsy(CP) is a brain developmental disorder and a major cause of chronic childhood disability. It affects about 2 to 2.5 children per 1000 live births. Children with CP have varying symptoms affecting communication, health and specially mobility depending on the severity of the disorder. Children with severe CP usually have very limited mobility and are non-verbal but have normal or above average levels of intelligence though mental retardation is sometimes associated with them. To improve their quality of life often health interventions(corrective measures) in terms of surgery or assistive devices are administered to them which may be useful from the surgeon’s perspective. There is no evidence whether it actually is useful for the child. At present there is a questionnaire which evaluates the effectiveness of the intervention from the caregiver’s perspective as majority of children with severe CP are unable to communicate. The proposed project aims at developing an interactive audiovisual interface which enables the child to answer the questionnaire. It is aimed at children who have severe CP with normal to high levels of intelligence and are nonverbal but can communicate with a communicating device. The interface will be designed to be accessible by communicating devices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Tom Chau

Student:

Nayanashri Thalanki Anantha

Partner:

Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital & Sick Kids Hospital

Discipline:

Engineering - other

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Yielding Brace System for Concentrically Braced Frame Structures

 

The goal of this research project is the detailed design and optimization of a series of 10 Yielding Brace System (YBS) connectors that will eventually be made commercially available as a higher performance, earthquake resistant building system. The intern will design and optimize each connector, focusing on both the local behaviour of the device, through non-linear finite element stress analysis, and the global behaviour of the building system as a whole, through non-linear time history analysis of a sample building. Upon completion of the project the partner organization will have a series of connectors that will be ready to begin the regulatory approval process and the  researchers will have an enhanced understanding the system behaviour of a building using the YBS as its primary lateral force resisting system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Evan Bentz

Student:

Michael Gray

Partner:

Cast Connex Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Research on Multi-Platform Supported Realtime Locator for Transport/Fleet Management Applications

 

The objective of this project is to conduct research on the multi-platform supported Locator device by investigating an easy-to-port and extendible design to migrate a Locator firmware offered by WebTech Wireless Company on alternative operating systems with more advanced features. The locator firmware is currently run on the FreeRTOS operating system, which is known to be small and simple, but only with limited capacity to support complex application and process large amounts of data with high accuracy. We thus plan to migrate and refactor the firmware onto more advanced operating systems such as embedded Windows and embedded Linux operating systems. WebTech will benefit from the proposed research by gaining the Locator device with its firmware working on the embedded Linux and Windows operating systems. In addition, the developed refactoring design also helps enable fast provisioning for other operating systems, making the Locator device and its firmware more flexible and extendible to further enhancements. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Jiangchuan Liu

Student:

Feng Wang

Partner:

WebTech Wireless

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Developing Optimally Discriminative Subnetwork Markers for Predicting Response to Chemotherapy

 

Molecular profiles of tumour samples have been widely and successfully used for classification problems. A number of algorithms have been proposed to predict classes of tumor samples based on expression profiles with relatively high performance. However, prediction of response to cancer treatment has proved to be more challenging and novel approaches with improved generalizability are still highly needed. Recent studies have clearly demonstrated the advantages of integrating protein–protein interaction (PPI) data with gene expression profiles for the development of subnetwork markers in classification problems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Cenk Sahinalp

Student:

Yen-Yi Lin

Partner:

Vancouver Prostate Centre

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Genome Sequence Compression Algorithms Using Locally Consistent Parsing

 

The high throughput sequencing (HTS) platforms generate unprecedented amounts of data that introduce challenges in computational infrastructure. Data management, storage, and analysis become a major logistical undertaking for those adopting the new platforms. The requirement of large investments for this purpose almost signaled the end of the Sequence Read Archive hosted at the NCBI, which holds most, if not all the sequence data generated world wide. Currently, most HTS data is compressed through general purpose algorithms such as gzip. These algorithms are not designed for compressing the data generated by the HTS platforms; for example they do not take advantage of the specific nature of the sequence data, i.e. limited alphabet size and high similarity among reads. Fast and efficient compression algorithms designed specifically for HTS data may be able to address some of the issues in data management, storage, and communication. Here we propose SCALP, a "boosting" scheme based on Locally Consistent Parsing technique that reorganizes the reads in a way that results in a higher compression speed and compression rate, independent of the compression  algorithm in  use.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Cenk Sahinalp

Student:

Ibrahim Numanagic

Partner:

Vancouver Prostate Centre

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

QR Artist

 

Despite the change in usage and application (“Barcode Scanning Hits Some Big Milestones,” 2011), QR codes have kept the initial appearance. Black blocks in a square format still represent QR codes. This project, QR Artist, proposes humanizing these codes by inventing a framework that creates artistic QR codes and provides marketing analysis tools and reports for the customers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Steve DiPaola

Student:

Nahid Karimaghalou

Partner:

Muprime Technology

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Analysis of Nanofilter Fouling in Potable Water Treatment

 

The province of Manitoba has many lime/soda water treatment plants unable to meet the latest provincial quality standards for chlorine disinfection by-products – trihalomethanes (THMs). As a result, many municipalities are looking for other alternatives. One suitable alternative is a dual membrane plant using ultrafiltration and nanofiltration (NF). Typical surface water sources in Manitoba contain major membrane foulants in relatively high concentrations, specifically DOC and hardness. Control of membrane fouling allows for longer filtration runs and for less water to be rejected, which is directly related to the operating cost of the plant. Membrane fouling is influenced by the quality of local water, and the effect of the water of the Canadian Prairies on membrane filtration is not well understood. We propose to study the mechanism for NF membrane fouling in a Manitoba plant, and gain knowledge that will enable its control.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Beata Gorczyca

Student:

Nicholas Svenda

Partner:

Pembina Valley Water Cooperative Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

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