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Automatic Document Redaction

Document redaction has long been a heavy manual work. When governments and companies need to make documents available either internally or externally, they would need to hire someone with enough professional background to manually cross-out the sensitive information in the documents. The process is both time consuming and expensive. Thanks to the fast advances in artificial intelligence, it is now possible to develop highly intelligent software tools to redact documents automatically. This is what the research project will primarily focus on, it will be an automatic document redaction tool designed specifically for the tax group in PwC, to process the documents that are to be included in its internal knowledge base.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nathan Taback

Student:

Partner:

PricewaterhouseCoopers (Toronto, ON)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

La détection hyperspectrale aéroportée des émissions de méthane par les systèmes aquatiques

Le methane (CH 4) est un gaz a effet de serre puissant dont les sources sont multiples, incluant les tourbieres, les lacs et les eaux usees. Les etudes montrent que les flux de CH4 sont tres variables dans l’espace et dans le temps, mais les donnees sont encore fragmentaires. Ce manque d’information limite notre capacite a extrapoler et modeliser Ia contribution des differents milieux dans le contexte des changements environnementaux et climatiques. Ce projet vise a localiser et quantifier les points chauds d’emission de CH4 sur le paysage en utilisant l’imagerie infrarouge hyperspectrale (IRHS) aeroportee. Nous proposons de tester le potentiel d’une camera IRHS de haute resolution pour detecter le CH4 emis par les mi lieux aquatiques en mode aeroporte (vertical), une technologie pouvant s’averer particulierement attrayante en regions eloignees.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Isabelle Laurion

Student:

Partner:

Telops

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Accelerate

Passerine migration and stopover across an urban gradient

To develop ‘green’ cities and to assess environmental impacts in cities, it is essential to understand the spatial distribution of sensitive species, such as migrating birds. Migration is a costly and dangerous time for songbirds, with up to 80% mortality during their first migration. As migratory birds are protected under the federal Migratory Bird Act, there is a need to better understand how we can best protect migratory birds and their critical habitats and stopover sites. By using new tracking technology, our project will quantify movements and habitat use by moult migrant songbirds in green spaces and the surrounding landscape in and on the outskirts of on of the largest metropolis of Canada, the island of Montreal. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kyle Elliott

Student:

Partner:

Migration Research Foundation

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Conception et validation de tableaux de bord et d’une aide à l’interprétation des résultats de consultations citoyennes dans le cadre d’une application de ville intelligente

B-CITI Solutions Inc. développent l’application B-CITI qui est une plateforme intelligente multi-villes/multi-canaux qui connecte les systèmes des villes, centralise et nettoie les données, numérise les services aux citoyens et offre l’analyse en temps réel des données. L’application B-CITI dispose d’un module de consultation citoyenne qui ne dispose pour le moment d’aucune fonctionnalité d’analyse des données. Dans le cadre de ce projet, nous proposerons différentes façons d’analyser les réponses aux questions des consultations. De plus, nous conceptualiserons l’automatisation de tableaux de bord pour la présentation, la visualisation et l’interprétation des résultats par les gestionnaires, les élus et les citoyens.

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Faculty Supervisor:

François Bellavance

Student:

Partner:

B-CITI Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Quantifying the value added by the first large ensemble of high-resolution climate-change simulations over Québec

Regional Climate Models (RCMs) allow generating climate-change projections into the future over a limited region of the globe at high spatial resolution. The production of large ensembles of simulations from a same RCM is an emerging field of research allowing to explore in detail the interaction between climate change, natural climate variability and extreme events, at the local scale where climate impacts occur. This project takes advantage of the first high-resolution large ensemble over Québec that was recently produced by Ouranos in the scope of the Québec-Bavarian collaborative ClimEx project (www.climex-project.org). This research will address the question of “added value” by high-resolution large ensembles compared to lower-resolution smaller ensembles in order to guide Ouranos’ partners and other climate data users on how to best integrate such a dataset into the climate-change impacts and adaptation framework.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rene Laprise;Martin Leduc

Student:

Partner:

Ouranos Inc

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Accommodation and food services; Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Amélioration et développement d’un modèle de distribution de promotions croisées basé sur un graphe de produit à produit

La promotion croisée a pour but de promouvoir des nouveaux produits à des clients actuels de l’entreprise. Dans l’industrie du jeu vidéo, la promotion croisée incite à installer de nouveaux jeux. L’intérêt de la démarche est de conserver dans le réseau de de l’entreprise un client risquant de le quitter.
Une analyse menée au niveau du joueur et de son historique est nécessaire pour servir au mieux la clientèle de l’entreprise. Le stage Mitacs a pour objectif d’améliorer et de mettre en place un modèle existant qui identifie le meilleur moment pour inciter le joueur à changer de jeu.
Le modèle développé chez Gameloft modélisera de façon générique l’expérience client à travers un portfolio de produits. Il sera par conséquent susceptible de modéliser un grand nombre d’expérience d’usager sur un réseau d’items.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gilles Caporossi;Sylvain Perron

Student:

Partner:

Divertissement Gameloft Inc

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Identification of association of genome regions with community composition of rumen methanogenic in Holstein cattle

Methane emission by ruminants has considerable contribution to global warming. Individual animals have been argued to harbor their own specific microbial communities responsible for methane production. The objective of this study is to identify the genomic regions associated with community composition of rumen methanogenic archaea in Iranian Holstein cattle. The genomic DNA from 300 Iranian Holstein cattle have been genotyped using the Illumina 30K SNP panel. The community composition of rumen methanogenic archaea will be defined by qPCR of 16S rRNA genes and alignment of Illumine MiSeq reads to the GREENGENES database. Whole-genome association analyses for community composition of rumen methanogenic archaea will be performed using various statistical methods to identify quantitative trait loci and genes underlying methane emission in Iranian Holstein cattle. It is anticipated that the results of these studies will lead to the reduction of methane emission rate per animal in Iranian Holstein cattle.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Younes Miar

Student:

Partner:

University of Tehran

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Style de vie et main-d’oeuvre en tourisme d’aventure et écotourisme sur le territoire québécois

L’objectif principal de ce projet consiste à mieux connaître le rôle du style de vie de la main-d’oeuvre dans l’attractivité des individus qui choisissent ce type d’emploi. Les entreprises de tourisme d’aventure et d’écotourisme située hors des grands centres urbains ayant de plus en plus de difficulté à attirer de la main-d’oeuvre, il apparaît pertinent de s’interroger sur le rôle du style de vise et des composantes particulières de cette industrie, soient le territoire sur lequel se déroule l’offre touristique, la nature des activités de tourisme d’aventure et d’écotourisme (ex. contemplative ou à haut risque) et la saisonnalité de l’offre touristique. Les résultats permettront d’orienter davantage les décideurs et producteurs de l’offre en tourisme d’aventure et écotourisme au Québec et de contribuer à sa pérennité par la connaissance plus approfondie de sa main-d’oeuvre et ses mécanismes d’attractivité et de rétention.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laurent Bourdeau

Student:

Partner:

Aventure Écotourisme Québec;Tourisme Charlevoix

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

High resolution measurement of earthquake impacts on rock slope stability and damage using pre- and post-earthquake remote sensing

Assessment of the effects of earthquakes on rock slopes requires detailed measurements both before and after the shaking. However, at present, there is a lack of high resolution data that enables this, partly as it is unusual to have good data from prior to earthquakes. This information is important for validating models that are used to back-analyze rock slope behaviour during and following earthquake shaking.
The proposed work involves the novel integration of a range of new remote sensing techniques to assess the effects of seismic shaking and subsequent annual monsoon rains on two case study slopes in Central Nepal, where some of the most intense damage due to landsliding was experienced following the 2015 earthquake sequence. Rock slope characterization and change detection to identify earthquake damage will be employed to assess slope response to seismic shaking and monsoonal rainfall. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Douglas Stead

Student:

Partner:

BGC Engineering Inc (BC)

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Advancing Data Science Research for Social Good

Due to rapid development of technology, such as the Internet of Things, collecting data is easier and cheaper than ever before. As a result, municipal governments and urban centres across Canada are being inundated with data—data that have potential to improve public service. Despite this, local governments do not have enough data expertise to extract insight from these overwhelming datasets, which are often unstructured and “dirty” (i.e., incomplete, inaccurate, and/or erroneous). Simultaneously, high-quality personnel (HQP) in the domains of data science and urban analytics lack opportunities to work closely with local government to address this gap. Thus, the “Data Science for Social Good” program at the University of British Columbia seeks to mentor and train HQP to solve data intensive, high-priority urban research projects identified by local government. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raymond Ng

Student:

Partner:

Microsoft Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Business planning for Social Enterprisess

The intern will be involved in the development of a new business venture based on an operating pilot progamme related to fisheries tracking. There are two objectives. First, detailed research in specific sections of the project’s business plan and secondly, finalizing the business plan for the new venture. Among the goals of this project is to identify some standard practices and policies that can further support the organization’s procedures going forward. The organization will benefit from an international perspective and of course from the knowledge that the intern gained through his MBA programme. Last but not least, during the MBA program the intern had the opportunity of working in several projects on both Sustainability and New Ventures as the professors collaborated and brought some client based projects that could bring not only knowledge but also ideas during the development of a business model and ultimately a new business venture.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Hannah

Student:

Partner:

Ecotrust Canada

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Using stable isotope analysis to investigate a food web connection between coal waste contamination and a forest community

A coal mine operating on the Snuneymuxw First Nation reserve lands between 1913 and 1939 has left mine waste that has contaminated the soil, sediment, groundwater and surface water with metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Human health and ecological assessments are being conducted in the area to determine how best to deal with the contamination in the area. Many members of the Snuneymuxw community harvest plants and berries from the forest where the contamination is located and there are several trees with symbolic importance to the community that have been planted on the coal waste. Because of the high abundance of vegetation in the area, standard practices for measuring PAH are difficult to use. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Suzanne Simard

Student:

Partner:

Golder (Vancouver, BC)

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Environmental Science and Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

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