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Engineering - chemical / biological

Evaluation of National Physical Activity Initiatives

In 2007, ParticipACTION was relaunched in Canada with the goal of inspiring and supporting active living and sport participation for Canadians. The focus of ParticipACTION is on social marketing initiatives The objective of the proposed internship is to take advantage of data collected through internal evaluations commissioned by ParticipACTION of two national campaigns – Teen Challenge, and Sports Day in Canada, and address a number of knowledge gaps in the physical activity research field. First, what role can microgrants play in supporting community capacity to promote physical activity? Second, what role do large scale, one-off sporting and PA events like Sports Day in Canada perform in encouraging sport and physical activity participation? ParticipACTION will benefit from having a graduate trainee with research experience and competency in statistical analyses. ParticipACTION does not currently have the capacity or the statistical expertise to conduct the work being proposed. Findings from the described project will be used to inform the future planning and delivery of the two initiatives. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Guy Faulkner

Student:

Lauren White

Partner:

ParticipACTION

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Sports and recreation

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Integrating attentional shifts to improve stereo vision in robot navigation

Artificial 3D vision is computationally intensive. It takes an impractically long time for a robot to analyze a video frame in order to accurately estimate the locations of nearby obstacles. This project will develop new techniques for selecting only the most important regions of each video frame to analyze at each moment, so that a robot can update its knowledge of obstacle locations a number of times per second. CrossWing Inc. is developing a telepresence robot that needs this capability in order to support rapid semi-autonomous navigation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Bryan Tripp

Student:

Eric Hunsberger & TBD

Partner:

CrossWing Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - other

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Developing Crop Consulting Mobile App

The main purpose of the project is finding a user preferred way of synchronization and user interaction on Android platform. The result of the experiment will help the applicant to design user friendly mobile application. As a result, the partner organization can get an android version of Croprecords.com with good user experience since the system will be optimized after evaluating users’ feedbacks.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ralph Deters

Student:

Nan Chen

Partner:

Phantom Ag Ltd.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Learning to organize and discover biomedical scientific literature

This project will investigate machine learning methods to organize and discover the vast literature on biomedical science. First, it will focus on named entity recognition–the task of finding and classifying entities in text documents–on large collections of abstracts and full-text of research papers and investigate semi-supervised learning methods to leverage large collections of unlabeled research papers. Second, it will focus on designing new ranking algorithms for research papers by exploiting information from several sources, including citation networks of papers, future impact predictions of new research papers and domain ontologies. The solutions to these problems will directly impact the performance of the methods that are currently in use by the company to solve the discovery problem of biomedical research papers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Quaid Morris

Student:

Shankar Vembu

Partner:

Sciencescape

Discipline:

Biochemistry / Molecular biology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Rainy Day Solutions: Enhancing Rain Gardens

With over 80% of the Canadian population dwelling in urban centers, design for sustainable urban environments is tantamount to the health and happiness of 21st century Canadians. The City of Victoria (CoV) would like to incorporate green infrastructure into their integrated storm water management plan. Over the past four years, nine rain gardens have been installed in the CoV as pilot projects. Their function as storm water catchment areas and supporting ecological communities needs to be determined. A set of evaluating criterion is required to measure the success of the installed rain gardens. A partnership with a local freshwater ecology restoration team, Aqua-Tex, has been established to determine rain garden success and create installation and management recommendations. A literature review will inform the creation of quantitative metrics. These metrics will be used in a scientific evaluation of the rain gardens. A best management practices report will culminate the project and be used as a guide for further rain garden installation by the CoV, and the  private consulting firm, Aqua-Tex.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Valentin Schaefer

Student:

Cara Hernould

Partner:

Aqua-Tex Scientific Consulting Ltd.

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

From Management to Adaptation: An organizational learning approach to strategic renewal of the environmental management function at The City of Calgary

This study looks at how organizational learning can be applied to enhance the relationships between human organizations and the environment. A team of environmental management professionals at The City of Calgary will work with the intern/researcher to design and test the effectiveness of an organizational learning tool. The tool will be applied to explore principles of complexity and self-organization in the context of The City of Calgary’s interactions with its environment, and will look at how organizing from the bottom up can complement The City’s existing systems-based environmental management approach. A multi-phased organizational learning exercise will be applied to identify intuitive knowledge and experience gained by individuals at the operation level of The City as they do their jobs, and to feed this knowledge forward into the institution. The study will investigate how the learning program contributes to developing the capacity of The City to self-organize and adapt to its environment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Veronika Bohac-Clarke

Student:

Faye Bres

Partner:

City of Calgary

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Sensors Western Operational Research and Development (SWORD)

Accurate monitoring of a patient’s vital signs – including body temperature, blood pressure, and pulse oxygenation – is central to the ability of clinicians to provide appropriate medical care. In spite of this, the standard equipment used to take these measurements is inefficient, inconvenient, and expensive. Adept Diagnostics will break into the medical device market with the development of novel wireless sensor systems to track these physiological variables continuously and inobtrusively. This equipment, based on unique patented sensor technology, will improve patient care by allowing doctors and nurses to easily keep track of key patient statistics accurately, reliably and remotely. These sensors will also be inexpensive and small enough for use in research. This project will produce and test prototype sensor devices measuring three clinically relevant physiological variables, and complete pilot studies testing their effectiveness and accuracy. This technology has the potential to improve the clinical care of adults and children in almost any medical situation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Michael Rieder

Student:

Lauren Hanly, Emma Beaulieu, & Michael Greff

Partner:

Adept Diagnostics

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Market and Technology Roadmap Validation Framework for Software Services

Founding a technology startup company is never an easy endeavor. There are major challenges on both the technology side and the business/commercialization side. For Tutela Technologies Ltd. it appears that the commercial validation of the technologies invented is proving to be the largest challenge. The initial internship and research will focus directly on Tutela Technologies Ltd. Tutela’s case will be used to create a framework and roadmap for establishing commercializing success and focusing R&D activities. In the second internship, using the newly created framework, these validations will vary among the companies in terms of markets, specific products and technologies that in progress or already developed. The main problem that will be addressed in this internship is identifying market opportunities and strategies for commercially validating the technologies that the Tutela Technologies and some of the other Wesley Clover portfolio companies have developed. The benefit to Tutela and Wesley Clover will be the commercial success of the products and services created. There is a need to create a framework that can identify roadmaps to commercialization in order to have a financially sustainable future and successfully grow.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Brent Mainprize

Student:

Richard Egli

Partner:

Tutela Technologies Ltd.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Développement d’un produit podiatrique à base de cellulose couplée à des peptides antimicrobiens pour le contrôle des pathogènes du pied diabétique

On estime dans le monde que plus de 285M de personnes sont atteintes de diabète. Cette maladie et ses complications représentent un énorme fardeau financier pour le système de santé (et les compagnies d’assurance). D’ici 2020, les coûts reliés au diabète et sa prise en charge atteindront 16,9 milliards $ par année au Canada. Actuellement, 2,3M de Canadiens sont atteints de cette maladie et environ 345 000 développeront un ulcère diabétique au niveau des pieds. La prise en charge du pied diabétique coûte extrêmement cher au système de santé et malgré tous les moyens de soins de plaies et de décharge de pression, cela peut mener le patient à l’amputation et, dans certains cas, à son décès. Dans ce contexte, il y un besoin criant d’éviter les complications du diabète au niveau des pieds. Cela requiert alors des recherches pour trouver des moyens innovateurs et efficaces pour les soins des pieds diabétiques. Le développement de nouveaux produits podiatriques visant le contrôle de l’infection semblent très prometteur et un moyen de contrer la surinfection.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Simon Barnabé

Student:

Virginie Blanchette

Partner:

Cascades

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Pulp and paper

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Choosing the game and the stakes in a casino: A service pricing problem with many substitutable services

At any given time, a casino has to decide which table games to present to its customers and what betting limits to place on those tables. Understanding that a table games is a service and that the table limit is pricing, this is a classic service pricing problem. However, the number of tables and the fact that we can assign many different games to them leads to the novel research question: How do you which services to offer at what prices when customers have different preferences for each option? The resulting problem has the standard complications of a service problem with congestion but suffers from additional combinatorial challenges. The central goal of this project is to find efficient algorithms to answer this question.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Michael Pavlin

Student:

Mohammadreza Farahani

Partner:

Tangam Systems Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

The Communicative Challenges and Implications of Quantum Computing Renewal

The industry partner 1QBit has access to a processor that uses an adiabatic annealing technique to address a special class of optimization problems for initial application in finance. Optimization problems have a long and broad relevance to challenges faced in the financial sector. The prospect of quantum annealing as a way to innovate in solving finance optimization problems has been an area of growing interest, though limited in practice due to the lack of suitable analog hardware. 1QBit is bringing together a group of researchers from physics, mathematics, computer science, engineering and finance to investigate the prospect of quantum annealing in financial applications. In this internship project, I will apply my research aims to trace the development of the diverse network that is being built to facilitate quantum computing, understand the communication challenges faced in interdisciplinary public-private technological production, and consider the implications posed by a quantum model of computing to theories of information and the material nature of communication.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Chris Russill

Student:

Derek Noon

Partner:

1QB Information Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Journalism / Media studies and communication

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Efficient OLAP Queries on In-memory Databases with Frequent Updates

In this project, we will collaborate with Actenum our industry partner tackle the challenges of online analytics processing (OLAP) queries on in-memory databases that are updated frequently. Specifically, we will address the technical research issues about how to conduct effective and efficient OLAP on frequently updated data stored in a large in-memory database, and retain the query answering time within a millisecond scale. We will explore effective query syntax, informative query result presentation, and efficient query answering algorithms. The research outcome will benefit our industry partner immediately.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Jian Pei

Student:

Xiaoning Xu & TBD

Partner:

Actenum Corporation

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

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