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Engineering - chemical / biological

Adaptive Visualization for Analysis of Customer Behaviour

Companies with a strong online presence are seeking to increase users’ engagement by adding recommendation and prediction algorithms to their websites. These algorithms can for example predict which users’ actions are more likely to happen and which users’ actions are likely more profitable. Companies use such algorithms to tailor the content of their websites based on the users’ behavior. Websites tailored to users’ behavoiur become more profitable and competitive for digital advertisement and e-commerce. Despite the proven effectiveness of these recommendation and prediction algorithms, how to illustrate their benefits and educate the stakeholders still remains a challenge. This is the problem that our industrial partner Youneeq wants to address: How can data visualization be used to convince stakeholders than a recommendation algorithm is having a positive impact on e-commerce metrics? And does the visualization need to change for stakeholders with different roles and backgrounds?

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Melanie Tory

Student:

Maria-Elena Froese

Partner:

Youneeq

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Digital media

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Investigation of sulphur compound behaviour on surface operations on offshore platforms

The process of an oil and gas reservoir being “soured” by hydrogen sulphide is complex due to the many operations (e.g. changing production methods and waterflooding). The phenomena of souring occurs in most reservoirs were secondary or enhanced oil/gas recovery takes place. Hydrogen sulphide casues a number of operational and safety problems such as scaling, air quality issues, and corrosion. Due to the reactivity of sulphur, the process that produces the hydrogen sulphide and related sulphur compunds is a complex chemical and biological process. In this project we will study the behaviour of sulphur compounds as they move through the surface handling facilities in an effort to better understand the chemical flux of the sulphur between different species. This will aid in the overall understanding of how to better handle soured gases and wastewaters on offshore plaforms where reservoir souring is occurring.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Kelly Hawboldt

Student:

Bhagya Range

Partner:

Suncor Energy Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - petrochemical

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Fraud Detection for Online Advertising

With the increasing popularity of Internet, online advertising becomes a new marketing opportunity by instant globally advertisements (ads). At the basis, the process of online advertising can be considered as a buyer/seller relationship, where the two of the key participants are publishers (i.e. seller) and advertisers (i.e. buyer). Publishers make money through hosting websites with advertisements, while advertisers pay for having their ads displayed on publishers' websites. However, since “how much the buyer is willing to pay” depends on the number of clicks to the ads, some dishonest publishers attempt to generate invalid traffic to make more money. Publisher fraud is a severer problem for advertisers. Fraud detection introduces methods and algorithms as countermeasures to different attacking mechanisms. This project aims to apply theoretical analysis and state of the art fraud detection mechanisms to increase the efficiency of the detection and significantly reduce the cost of the partner organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Wenying Feng

Student:

Qinglei Zhang

Partner:

EQ Advertising Group Ltd.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Media and communications

University:

Trent University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of an online and customizable corporate challenge and integrated workplace wellness tracking and self-monitoring platform

The main objective of the project is to develop a customizable corporate challenge and integrated workplace wellness tracking and self-monitoring platform. Physical inactivity has a direct impact on employees’ medical condition, workplace stress, health metrics, self-reported work impairment, and absenteeism. Thus there is a crucial need for wellness programs that maximize employee participation to physical activity programs. Several initiatives have been developed to manage workplace wellness programs, but most of them are limited to walking and/or running, and no current system automatically monitors the participant’s response to the exercise program and provides timely and individual counseling, advices, reminders and personalized alerts. FITSTATS enterprise proposed a comprehensive approach by combining four methods that have demonstrated their efficiency in increasing physical activity and long-term adherence to an active lifestyle: (i) Administration of health-risk assessment questionnaires and clinical/biometric screenings. (ii) Team-based corporate wellness challenges (within the same company or between companies. (iii) Self-monitoring of physical activity (pedometer and self-reporting via mobile phone), automated graphing of progress, goal achievement. (iv) Automatic reminders, alerts and personal coaching advices (SMS or email) to participants via smartphone.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Eric Hervet

Student:

Cajetan Bouchard

Partner:

FITSTATS Technologies

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Université de Moncton

Program:

Accelerate

Fitness Coach Connects Program Evaluation

Shepell·fgi, a leader in Employee and Family Assistance Programs (EFAPs) in Canada, launched its Fitness Coach Connects program in June 2013. This program engages users through the use of a wireless activity tracker, personalized interactions and coaching sessions with a dedicated Fitness Coach, as well as access to an online program. This internship will support Shepell·fgi’s Clinical Services and Research department in their evaluation of the Fitness Coach Connects program’s user data and feedback. Data analysis and program evaluation will contribute to the further development of best practices for this field of service, and will serve to provide the basis for future program enhancements. The goals of the internship are to develop a comprehensive literature review on the current knowledge regarding the effectiveness of EFAP programs which include customized fitness and technology-assisted components, and on the key challenges associated with the evaluation of these programs; to evaluate utilization data and user feedback regarding the key components of the Fitness Coach Connects program developed by Shepell·fgi; and to evaluate the impact of technology-assisted EFAP Fitness Coach Connects program; This project will contribute to future improvement of the Fitness Coach Connects program, strengthening the company’s position as a leader in the field.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Serban Dinca-Panaitescu

Student:

Tracy Lynne Mack

Partner:

Shepell-fgi

Discipline:

Epidemiology / Public health and policy

Sector:

Service industry

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of user interfaces for business intelligence tools in corporate incident data

This project aims to create a set of innovative business intelligence tools to enhance advanced data analytics capabilities of the Perspective system developed by PPM 2000. The Perspective system is an incident management system that facilitates corporate incident data collection, reporting, analysis and management. Incident data is a post-event record of accidents, thefts, hazards, or other unusual events related to an organization’s infrastructure. The proposed business intelligence tools will enable automated discovery of interesting patterns, forecastings, and hidden facts with relative ease. Ultimately, these tools will allow clients of PPM 2000, domain experts and end-users gain a deeper understanding of their data.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Osmar Zaiane

Student:

Hamman Samuel

Partner:

PPM 2000

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a Decision Support System for FTTH Installations

In preparation for increasing its deployment of last-mile fibre, TELUS has engaged the University of Alberta to study the most efficient and cost-effective installation methods for Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) deployment where there are no existing telecommunications rights of way. The methods we will explore are divided into two categories: 1.) Direct Buried Methods (micro-trenching, Horizontal Directional Drilling, piercing and plowing. 2.) Utility Sharing (installing optical fibre via existing utility lines). Final recommendations and know-how will be reported in a Decision Support Guide transferred to TELUS. This important research will assist the telecommunications industry in Canada with scientifically backed knowledge and procedure for optical fibre installation projects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Alireza Bayat

Student:

Mohammad Rezaee, Leon Gay, Hediyeh Vaseli & TBD

Partner:

Telus

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Accelerating the Market for Green Urban Housing

Like most Canadian municipalities, the City of Ottawa is struggling to reign in urban sprawl and encourage sustainable residential development. According to my doctoral research, few residential developers in Ottawa are heeding the call to build green. Profits and markets are larger for single detached houses in the suburbs, and housing consumers choose green construction only if it does not “cost more” than standard construction. Further, consumers are now skeptical about the terms “green” and “sustainable”. Domicile Developments is one of very few developers in Ottawa with a commitment to green infill building. The proposed research is designed to answer two questions for Domicile: (1) what are projections for green building in Ottawa in terms of environmental change, government regulation and the market? In other words, what is the future of green building in Ottawa?; and (2) how can responsible builders sell green building, where the payback for consumers must be calculated over longer timespans and where the ultimate benefits accrue to humanity rather than individuals? The research will use multiple sources to compile projections for the building environment in Ottawa, and will explore creative marketing solutions. The research is intended to aid the company’s planning and marketing efforts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Patricia Ballamingie

Student:

Gary Martin

Partner:

Domicile Developments

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Adding Extra Constraints to an Open Platform for Industrial

Acculogic develops state-of-the-art testers for short-batch electronic circuit boards (ECBs). The order in which the required tests are performed affects the amount of shuttle and probe movements required between the tests, and this affects the overall efficiency of the test procedure. Unique characteristics of the problem (e.g. the ability to move one set of probes to the next test location while another set of probes is performing a test) make the problem too large and too complex to be solved with most traditional combinatorial optimization and heuristic search techniques (e.g. integer programming and genetic algorithms). Supporting the integration of both artificial intelligence-based and mathematical-based optimization techniques, a unique optimization architecture derived from "Asynchronous Teams" has been developed. The open nature of this optimization platform allows complex industrial constraints to be addressed through the addition of simpler modular components.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Stephen Chen

Student:

David Howden

Partner:

Acculogic Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Mobile Devices for Market Research with Reporting and Predictive Analysis

eThor is a startup company that develops applications for mobile devices in the area of e-commerce for wholesale and retail customers, initially in the restaurant industry. The internships proposed in this application relate to the expansion of data gathering, data mining and social network capabilities for the applications development. The data gathered will be transformed into a unified structure. The data will then be used in a classification and network evolution phase that will be used to predict the growth areas where applications could be profitably developed. Advanced predictive analytical techniques will be employed. The system produced will be integrated into the eThor framework to enable its use in developing robust productions applications. In this work the interns will acquire skills during the development phase and also learn to interact with a new dynamic start-up company.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Reda Alhajj

Student:

Abdullah Sarhan & Sukhpreet Dhaliwal

Partner:

eThor

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Antenna array feasibility study

Disruptive antenna technologies are required to provide performance and fabrication advantages in developing broadband wireless application products in emerging upper microwave and millimeterwave radio bands. The internship will investigate the feasibility of applying Polymer-based Dielectric Resonator Antenna (PRA), technology developed at the University of Saskatchewan, to commercial antenna array applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. David Klymyshyn

Student:

Mohammadreza Aligodarz

Partner:

DragonWave Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Nutritional Prenatal Soft-gel Development

The requirement for dissolution testing (both routine sample and method development) is increasing for all of the current and future programs at Accucaps and is a regulatory requirement for most oral pharmaceutical products. The need for access to capacity and development capabilities for dissolution must reach beyond Accucaps. For these reasons, a collaboration with Dr Shawn Wettig (University of Waterloo) to utilize his dissolution capacity and knowledge for non-GMP "piece-meal" and development activities is being pursued. The purpose of the proposed research is to develop robust dissolution testing methods for soft gelatin capsule dosage forms, which provide the high quality data necessary for in vitro – in vivo correlation with bioavailability data. This work will initially begin with the dissolution analysis of a prenatal vitamin supplement under development by Accucaps.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Shawn Wettig

Student:

Shannon Priscilla Callender & TBD

Partner:

Accucaps Industries Ltd.

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

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