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Threat Models in JavaScript Applications

In the modern world people want fast access to the right data at the right time. The facilitator of this data transmission and interconnection is the internet. People are sending and receiving data through their different devices. In this so called ubiquitous era service providers are moving from in shop servers to cloud environments and from “multiple implementations for different devices” to a “one application fit all devices” paradigm. These paradigm shifts while attractive, opens systems to previously unknown security risks. The previous man in the middle or black box security model is not sufficient and software security designers should also consider man at the end or white box attacks. In our research we attempt to address software security vulnerabilities, in particular client side code executed in these untrustworthy environments. To this end we will create a novel threat modeling methodology with a focus on web applications consisting of client side code written in JavaScript and HTML5.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Tom Dean

Student:

Mohammad Hassan Nourijelyani

Partner:

Irdeto Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Estimating Market Potential and Location-Allocation for Land-Use Modelling

As Lowe’s Companies Incorporated expands their organization across Canada they face tough decisions about where to locate new retail stores. These decisions take place at different scales and require choices to be made about what towns or cities would benefit from a new home improvement center and where within these towns or cities the center should be located. This project extends traditional site-location analysis and develops new approaches and customized tools to assess the best locations for new stores. More broadly, the project establishes a baseline of analysis routines that can be incorporated into models of land-use change to evaluate how drivers of retail site selection change over time.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Student:

Andrei Balulescu, Mihai Bogdan Caradima & Yunwei Dong

Partner:

Lowe's Companies Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Power factor control in high voltage power supplies for microwave power amplifiers

EnWave is developing custom microwave power sources for their vacuum pressure dehydration microwave drying products. The custom microwave power sources are based on arrays of 1.2 kW magnetrons. The microwave power sources require high voltage power supplies in the range of 4 kV with supporting control circuits to adjust the output voltage. Each 1.2 kW magnetron has an independent power supply and a typical system consists of a bank of high voltage supplies. Important design issues include controlling the relative phase of the current and voltage waveforms at the input of the supply and ensuring reverse current flow into the grid is minimized. These design issues relate to power factor and harmonic control circuits in the power supply. The primary project objective is to analyze, design and implement power factor control circuits for the high voltage supplies. The project work will directly support the design of new microwave drying systems currently being developed at EnWave.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Thomas Johnson

Student:

Nima Moazen Chaharsoughi

Partner:

EnWave Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Introducing Algorithm Trading/Investment to Hedge Funds and Family Offices

The intern will implement a comprehensive market validation study for two target markets: currency hedge funds and family offices. The plan will outline the size of the target markets, the competitive environment, the CTS Forex advantage, and the most efficient marketing channels. In addition, the intern will help in the development of two websites: 1. The corporate website to ensure it communicates the CTS Forexʼ’s value proposition effectively to the two target markets, 2. A website that aims to become a credible source on the performance of all trading systems in the market. Furthermore, the intern will be responsible to author and issue press releases, and develop a variety of marketing collateral for various purposes. CTS Forex will also publish a book, and the intern will develop a marketing plan that should help promote the book through social media.The overall goals of these tasks center on preparing CTS Forex to pitch its solution to the target markets, as well as attract investors to invest in the company.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Robert Schulz

Student:

Mohammed Saeed

Partner:

Winsor Global Financial Inc.

Discipline:

Economics

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluation of Solid-Phase Micro Extraction Technology for Environmental Monitoring

Volatile organic Compounds (VOCs) and semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) belong to the group of anthropogenic chemicals, meaning their effects are a result of human activity. VOCs are commonly found in the manufacturing process of paints, petroleum products, pharmaceuticals, and refrigerants. Additionally VOCs can be used as gasoline additives, solvents and dry-cleaning agents. SVOCs are common to indoor environments and are often used in the production of plastics, detergents, furniture, and other household and consumer products. Through their use in industry, both VOCs and SVOCs can be a potential contaminant of ground water and surface water resources and as a result, pose as a potential human health threat as many are toxic and known carcinogens. It is therefore highly important to have accurate and precise methods for their identification and analysis. Throughout the duration of the internship, the intern will undertake the evaluation of solid phase micro extraction for environmental monitoring (SPME). Four individual projects have been selected, two involving the identification and analysis ofVOCs and two involving the identification and analysis ofSVOCs using SPME.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Philip Walsh

Student:

Meghan Schlitt

Partner:

Mexxam Analytics

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Accelerate

Energy Management System of Distributed Energy Resources

The distributed energy management system that needs to be optimized represents a control and command center for a network of distributed resources, which may operate within an isolated or weakly interconnected micro-grid. The controller’s primary functions are to communicate with each distributed energy resource controller to determine the operating status of each distributed energy resources and to issue energy management control commands to reliably manage the stable integration of the distributed energy resources with the larger scale grid. The distributed energy management controller can manage individual energy resources manually, automatically with preprogrammed control, or based on other additional external input received. The scope of this project covers simulation relative to control of individual energy resources, multiple energy resources as distributed across the application site, and the final integrated operation of multi energy resources as one system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Juri Jatskevich

Student:

Soroush Amini Akbarabadi

Partner:

Alpha Technologies Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Membrane filtration for reuse of greenhouse wastewater

Most operations of horticulture are intensive users of water and nutrients. Growers recognize the importance of water conservation and recycling, and environmental protection and significant research dollars have been invested to develop integrated pest-management systems to reduce pesticide use, to optimize water and nutrient use within the operation, and encourage recirculation. The proposed project seeks to evaluate membrane filtration to treat and re-use irrigation water runoff, leachate, and other nutrient rich wastewaters. This technology has the potential to cost-effectively reduce water and nutrient use on the farm and eliminate or greatly reduce environmental impacts. It will be evaluated for effectiveness, cost/benefit, advantages, disadvantages, and suitability for different production systems. While this project is directed towards small and medium greenhouse operations and container nurseries, other groups producing high nutrient wastewater will benefit from the information derived.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Hongde Zhou

Student:

Bei Wang

Partner:

Soil Resource Group

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

The Internet: Parents, Advocacy & Health Information for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

 

Many parents of children affected by neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) such as autism, rely on information found on well-known advocacy websites to make decisions regarding their child’s treatment.  However, previous work has shown that advocacy websites tend to encourage a variety of treatments rather than objectively evaluate the plethora of available options.  Using journalistic methods, this project looks at the extent to which parents rely on, and are influenced by information published on these websites.  The results of this research will be the basis of a 2000-2500 word feature to appear in the Vancouver Sun at the end of summer 2011.  Additionally, on a weekly basis, 500-800 word articles about NDDs (including autism, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and cerebral palsy) will be published in the newspaper, in order to familiarize its readership about relevant and current scientific and neuroethical issues.  Ultimately, this work will benefit the Vancouver Sun’s readership by distilling complex ethical and scientific concepts into terms the general public can appreciate.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Judy Illes

Student:

Rebecca Cheung

Partner:

Vancouver Sun

Discipline:

Journalism / Media studies and communication

Sector:

Media and communications

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Module for characterizing the patient response to pain

As chronic pain affects a large portion of the population, caregivers cannot locate the optimum pain site, there is a demand for the development of a pain scanner device to provide accurate information regarding the areas of pain. During this internship, a Patient Response Module (PRM) used by the patient to provide information about the pain felt with the application of different amount of pressure on unhealthy inflammatory soft tissue. As some individuals may have difficulty describing the amount or the location of pain, the PRM will provide the means to the caregivers to pinpoint the pain location and evaluate the pain intensity. This information can then be used to treat the pain effectively. The PRM will communicate the pain-related data wireless to a mobile device or a computer to further analyses. The data will be displayed on a separate module then saved and used track of the patient’s improvement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Edmond Cretu

Student:

Maan Almarghalani

Partner:

Assessx Technology Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

SVM based system to detect machines engaged in distributed denial of service attack

In this research, we propose the design of an efficient automated system which can effectively learn from the patterns of malicious activities, in the form of distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against web servers on the Internet, and subsequently offer potential victims protection against such attacks by banning such requests in advance. A DDoS attack is a form of attack in which the attacker arranges for multiple machines to flood a website with repeated requests, saturating its capacity so it is not able to offer services to its customers due to being overload with fake requests. eQuality offers DDoS protection to its customers and by applying the results of this research it will be able to significantly improve the quality of its service and reduce its cost both in term of manpower to detect and prevent attack patterns manually as well as in terms of bandwidth that is used to serve and mitigate malicious requests.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Mark Bauer

Student:

Seyed Ahmad Hosseini Lavasani

Partner:

eQuality

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Innovative Tools for Conducting Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment

All new infrastructure and natural resource projects being developed in Canada are required to undergo an Environmental Assessment. A key aspect of this regulatory process is the need to demonstrate that the activity will not adversely affect human or ecosystem health. It is through the science of human health and ecological risk assessment (HHERA) that these predictions are made. The science and toxicology of making these risk predictions more accurate continues to evolve at a rapid pace. At Intrinsik Environmental Sciences our MITACs interns will work closely with our professional staff to develop innovative tools to improve our knowledge and understanding of predicting how people and ecosystems interact with chemical releases. Specifically they will tackle the challenges of how chemical emissions from oil and gas development in British Columbia and Waste-to-Energy (WTE) municipal waste facilities across the country could affect the communities we live in.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Drs. Jon Arnott & Roberta Fulthorpe

Student:

Nicole Thackeray, Derek Lee, Christopher Ng & Scott Lewis

Partner:

Intrinsik Environmental Sciences Inc.

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Modelling Guidance for Low Impact Development Practices

To combat the degradation of receiving water resulting from stormwater runoff approaches that focus on retaining and infiltrating stormwater at the source, referred to as Low Impact Development (LID) practices, are being proposed more frequently in recent years. Toronto and Region Conservation Authority recently initiated monitoring of precipitation and runoff from a large industrial site, comprised of several buildings and extensive paved areas, in which several LID practices have been constructed: rainwater harvesting system, biofilters, vegetated swales and porous pavement. The main objective of this project is develop guidance for modelling of these lot-level structural LID techniques utilizing the information collected though this ongoing monitoring program. The study will confirm the original site design, evaluate potential retrofit opportunities and generate modelling guidance to support TRCA’s efforts in facilitating planning, design and approval of LID practices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Darko Joksimovic &James Li

Student:

Thomas Tiveron

Partner:

Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Accelerate

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