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Proofs of Quantum Knowledge: Theory and Applications

A quantum proof of knowledge (QPoK) is a protocol in quantum computing that allows one party (the prover) to convince another party (the verifier) that they possess certain knowledge without revealing the knowledge itself. Our research proposal aims to advance the science of QPoKs by developing both theoretical foundations and practical applications. We will explore novel quantum protocols that ensure secure and efficient verification of knowledge without revealing the knowledge itself. This project will bridge the gap between abstract quantum theory and real-world applications, such as secure communication, cryptographic protocols, certified deletion, and blockchain technologies. By leveraging the unique properties of quantum mechanics, our research will contribute to the development of more robust and scalable quantum-proof systems, ultimately enhancing the security and efficiency of digital interactions in various domains.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anne Broadbent

Student:

Partner:

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Quantum Science; Cyber Security

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Building AbilityGPT – A GPT model to create novel biological therapeutics

Antibody therapeutics are a fast-growing class of treatments for many significant unmet medical needs. Ability biologics is a Montréal-based startup company that has significant unique proprietary data, sequences and activities for over 40 targets, for training deep-learning models, combined with laboratory facilities to create and test antibodies proposed by computer models. Ability Biologics will use the latest computer science and deep-learning technologies with our large data set to bring proposed therapeutics to reality.
The objective of this project is to explore the use of GPT pretrained-models trained on our unique data set of human antibody sequences. Then characterize the models by comparing to measured data and similar efforts from scientific literature, and eventually by synthesizing and characterizing the antibodies in our laboratories. The ability of the models to generate novel therapeutics with properties such as binding, solubility and developability will be explored as future projects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mathieu Blanchette

Student:

Partner:

Ability Biotherapeutics

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Artificial Intelligence

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Expérience d’accès aux services et à l’accompagnement juridiques de migrant.e.s sans statut ou à statut précaire au Québec : une recherche-action exploratoire

Alors que la mobilité internationale atteint des niveaux sans précédent, exacerbés par les crises politiques et économiques, le visage de l’immigration se transforme. Au Canada, comme au Québec, on assiste à une augmentation sans précédents des migrant.es temporaires. Or, être migrant sur un statut temporaire peut engendrer différentes formes de précarités. Les services juridiques et communautaires jouent un rôle important dans le soutien aux personnes migrantes en situation précaire, en prodiguant des conseils et une assistance juridique. Or, les obstacles d’accès aux services juridiques et la complexité du système d’immigration renforcent la vulnérabilité de ces personnes. Dans ce cadre, l’objectif général de cette recherche-action exploratoire, en partenariat avec la Clinique Juridique Solution Justes de la Mission Communautaire Montréal, vise à documenter l’accès à la justice, aux services et conseils juridiques pour les migrant.es sans statut ou à statut très précaire au Québec, en explorant leurs besoins à ce titre, l’accès, leurs expériences d’utilisation des services et les retombées (le cas échéant). Et ce, en tenant compte des différentes sphères relatives aux conseils juridiques (immigration, droits de la famille, droits du travail, logement, droit criminel).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie-Jeanne Blain

Student:

Partner:

Montreal City Mission

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Developing ethical training for long-term care through narrative

The project will recruit and interview staff at a number of long-term care (LTC) facilities about their experience of making difficult, ethical decisions. Materials from these interviews will be used to write a number of case studies, which participants will then discuss in focus groups. All interviews and focus groups will be recorded and transcribed. These will then be analyzed for content (what are the difficult decisions faced by LTC staff), form (how do they structure ethical issues and ethical decision making), and process (how do they reason ethically). Using the data and analysis from this part of the project we will design training materials aimed at enhancing ethical awareness, sensitivity and reasoning – eg case studies, reflective exercises, educational content – to be used as a stand-alone training module (online or available via DVD) or as part of existing ethics training. Staff will be recruited to use the materials and will be asked to complete the training module over a period of six months. They will participate in focus groups to discuss a number of case studies. These focus groups will be recorded and analyzed as per the groups above.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Clive Baldwin

Student:

Partner:

Shannex;Nashwaak Villa;Loch Lomond Villa

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

St. Thomas University

Program:

Accelerate

Planning paired-watershed scale biomass boiler ash utilization trials to support bioenergy waste diversion, forest regeneration, and aquatic ecosystem health

Wood ash is the residual from biomass boilers at forest products mills and stand alone energy facilities. In Canada, residual ash is often landfilled, which can be costly and pose environmental risks. However, considering that the components of the ash are derived primarily from soils and trees, and there is increasing interest to return wood ash from bioenergy facilities to managed forest soils. Ongoing work has largely shown that this can be beneficial, or at least not detrimental, to forest productivity and soil biodiversity across a range of forest and soil types across Canada. However there are gaps in understanding 1) how widespread ash utilization may affect wetland and aquatic components of forested landscapes, forestry operations research related to ash hauling and spreading, and 3) if biomass boiler ash can be used at high application rates to reclaim logging roads. This internship project will identify paired watersheds for subsequent ash addition (and control) amendments in NW Ontario forests where the Partner is the Sustainable Forest Licensee. Lab experiments where ash is added to water saturated soils and sediments and to road substrates will be conducted. This will ultimately help guide sustainable bioenergy production, waste management, and forest nutrient management.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nathan Basiliko

Student:

Partner:

Produits forestiers Résolu (QC)

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing

University:

Lakehead University

Program:

Accelerate

The potential of LCA models to assess the carbon intensity of fuel fractions produced after coprocessing biogenic feedstocks at Parkland’s refinery

In this proposal by assessing the assumptions/data used to impact regulatory credits in programs such as BC-LCFS and the federal CFR, the LCA models will be refined to be more representative. This research will build on past Parkland/MITAC’s supported work which tracked the “green molecules” distribution both within the refinery and in the final fuel fractions. The work will assess how the biogenic feedstock used (e.g., 5-30%) and varying the hydrogen integration pathway might impact the overall and specific CI of the fuels and maximize gained carbon credit. The work will also assess how the overall CI of refinery operations might be reduced as well as reducing the CI of the final fuels.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jack Saddler

Student:

Partner:

Parkland Burnaby Refinery

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Development of a effective energy management system for hybrid renewable energy systems

As global demand for clean energy rises, hybrid renewable energy systems (HRESs) integrating solar, wind, and energy storage offer opportunities to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. However, the operation and management of HRESs remain a significant challenge due to the inherent variability of renewable resources, technological limitations, and the complex interaction among system components. Therefore, this project involves the development of an Energy Management System (EMS) designed to maximise the efficiency and reliability of HRESs. Utilising the Model Predictive Control (MPC) technique, the proposed EMS performs energy allocation based on power-following principles, with the aim of providing technical and financial feasibility metrics for holistic decision-making. The novel contributions of this work are the consideration of asset degradation and inclusion of both heating and electrical components in the system. As EMS research is a critical emerging field, this project fosters an ongoing research collaboration between the University of British Columbia and University of Technology Sydney. This partnership aims to drive positive social, economic, and industrial impact by accelerating the adoption of HRESs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christine Chen

Student:

Partner:

University of Technology Sydney

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Bruit des gouttes impactant les structures : vers une preuve de concept d’un pluviomètre dynamique

Quand une goutte d’eau tombe sur une structure, elle produit du bruit. On veut se concentrer dans ce stage sur les signaux sonores liées produits lors de l’impact de gouttes sur la structure solide, et l’extraction d’informations pertinentes concernant la force d’impact de la goutte. L’objectif spécifique est de déterminer si, en partant d’une mesure acoustique du rayonnement d’une plaque soumise à des impacts de gouttes, il est possible de remonter à la force d’impact de cette goutte. Remonter à la force d’impact permet de formuler des hypothèses sur sa taille, et pour plusieurs impacts, la quantité de liquide correspondant. Ceci permettrait de réaliser une évaluation du volume d’eau tombé sur une structure au cours du temps, et constituerait une preuve de concept pour un pluviomètre dynamique basé sur l’analyse de signaux acoustiques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Olivier Robin

Student:

Partner:

Le Mans Université

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Technology; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Mise en œuvre de zones d’écoutes privatives pour une application multidisciplinaire (application muséale et artistique)

La technologie des ‘sound zones’ (zones sonores, ou zones d’écoute privatives – ZEP) fait partie de la catégorie globale des technologies d’écoute personnelle, qui permet aux gens de créer des expériences d’écoute individuelles. Par contre et par rapport aux technologies basées sur les écouteurs, les zones sonores n’exigent pas que les personnes utilisatrices en portent pour créer une expérience audio spatialisée. Elles reposent sur un réseau de haut-parleurs et des techniques optimales de traitement du signal pour créer des zones sonores ciblées sur une zone de l’espace. En dehors de cette zone, le son est peu ou pas audible. Les méthodes de construction des ZEP ont suffisamment évolué pour permettre des installations en dehors des laboratoires expérimentaux. Il est proposé dans ce stage de se rapprocher de deux domaines connexes et de développer des prototypes de ZEP dans deux cas concrets : une collaboration avec un artiste visuel (bédéiste) et avec un centre hospitalier.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Olivier Robin

Student:

Partner:

Le Mans Université

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; New and Digital Media; Social Innovation

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Exploring Green Azole Alternatives for Copper Corrosion Inhibition in Cooling Towers

The project aims to identify eco-friendly organic molecules to be used as copper corrosion inhibitors for water
cooling towers, which are crucial for heat management in facilities like hospitals and factories. Currently, toxic
nonenvironmentaly- friendly chemicals are used to manage corrosion in water cooling towers, which pose
environmental risks. The intern will collaborate with TGWT, a company specializing in green water treatment
solutions, to research and test green alternatives that are biodegradable and non-toxic. This solution aims to
improve environmental sustainability while maintaining performance, reducing costs, and ensuring safety in
industrial cooling systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sasha Omanovic

Student:

Partner:

Technologies propres TGWT inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Utilities

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Software Acceleration of Video Noise Filtering and its Integration into Real-Time Video Applications

The project is about removing noise from video signals (for example, those taken by a mobile phones or professional cinema camera). Our current software first detects the type and power of the noise and based on that remove the noise from video. This proposal has three objectives. The first is to handle a specific type of noise called structured noise, not handled yet in our denoising software developed in previous MITACS projects. To handle this, both estimator and denoiser should be adapted to this type of noise by first studying this type of noise and then change the parameters (or structure) of our denoiser to have the maximum performance under these conditions. The second objective is to increase the speed of our algorithms to achieve faster processing for time-constrained applications such as TV or cinema. We plan to revisit the structure of our techniques and carefully study how to change our algorithms to achieve higher speed while maintaining denoising quality. Our third objective is to test our techniques in very time constrained applications such as smart phones and investigate ways to reduce complexity and increase speed so to achieve real time processing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aishy Amer

Student:

Partner:

TandemLaunch Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Prismatic Arts Society Post-Festival & Festival Planning Internship

The Prismatic Arts Festival is an annual, multidisciplinary arts festival that showcases and celebrates innovative work by Indigenous artists and artists of colour from across Canada. Based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Prismatic has been bringing audiences vibrant, boundary-pushing new works in theatre, dance, music, film, visual arts, media arts, and spoken word since 2008. In this internship, the intern will develop and implement innovative, improved approaches to the organization’s post-festival and festival planning operations in order to expand Prismatic’s audience base and widen its scope of impact across sectors. The innovations will take place in the following areas: marketing and communications, public and private funding acquisition, archival systems, and advocacy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sarah Clift

Student:

Partner:

Prismatic Arts Society

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

University of King's College

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

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