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Engineering - chemical / biological

Risk Margin for Claims and Premium Liability in Accordance with IFRS 17

The Building Block Approach (BBA) is one of the liability measurement approaches proposed in the new insurance contract standards – International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 17. Of the three components under BBA, determining the risk margin is the most essential. This project will develop a model that would determine the risk margins and claim provisions, compare the risk margins with those for unpaid claims under the Minimum Capital Test in the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) Guidelines, test the sensitivity of the model, and construct a decision tree to determine if a contract is appropriate to be evaluated by BBA. From this project, the partner organization – Baron Insurance Services will get advanced knowledge on risk margin and claim provision modeling before the implementation of IFRS 17, which very few consulting and insurance companies is working on currently. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Student:

Partner:

Addie Insurance Services Inc

Discipline:

Statistics / Actuarial sciences

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Towards automatic tree selection through fusion of mobile lidar and computer vision information

The aim of this project is to explore the automation of tree selection, which consist of selecting which trees to cut in a forest harvesting operation. When selecting a tree, one must consider multiple characteristic of the tree: its size, its position relative to other trees, its health and many other things. We begin this endeavor by developing a method to precisely measure the diameter and the position of trees in a given area. To do this, a combination of a laser scanner and a camera will be used. This has already been achieved using a laser scanner only, albeit with insufficient precision for our intended application. In selective tree cutting, you need to know which trees are big enough to be cut and their location. Typically, this is done manually by a qualified forest technician for each site. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Student:

Partner:

Centre de Recherche Industrielle du Québec

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Forestry

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing the Utility of a Commercial Mobile EEG in Detecting Age-Related Differences in the Brain – Year two

The world is aging rapidly and healthy cognitive aging a major healthcare priority. Thus, a better understanding of how the brain changes with normal aging versus pathology is required. Advancements in wearable technologies may allow the assessment of brain function with greater ease, accessibility, and at a lower cost, as compared with traditional neuroimaging techniques. Currently, commercially available portable electroencephalogram (EEG) device offers the potential to evaluate brain function. However, this needs to be tested and validated. Therefore, this research will use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as a reference to determine whether portable EEG can offer comparable reliability and sensitivity in assessing brain function. Synaptitude Brain Health, the partner organization, aims to promote overall brain wellness through non-pharmaceutical approaches. Through this project, Synaptitude Brain Health will gain the ability the make an evidence-based decision regarding using the portable EEG as an alternative to the more expensive fMRI.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christine Tipper

Student:

Chun Liang Hsu

Partner:

Synaptitude Brain Health

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Elevate

Carbon dioxide: Alternative solutions for conversion of captured liquefied CO2 into valuable fuels – Year two

The partner organisation, Sigma Energy Storage, develops energy storage by gas compression. This technology is based on the storage of electricity from intermittent energy sources, such as wind or solar power, and the recovery of unused electricity from diesel-based power sources located in remote communities not connected to the electrical power grid system. During the gas compression, carbon dioxide can be liquefied and extracted. The proposed project aims to convert CO2 into valuable fuels through electrochemical process. The generated fuels would be re-used to fuel generators and other devices in order to decrease greenhouse gases emissions. Catalysts made of graphene and metal nanoparticles are studied to make the CO2 conversion feasible at an industrial level. The project will benefit Sigma by providing a solution to the captured CO2 through its process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Luc Meunier

Student:

Ulrich Legrand

Partner:

Sigma Energy Storage

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

Program:

Elevate

Development of industrially scalable graphene oxide acoustic transducers – Year two

ORA has developed a unique audio solution based on the use of graphene oxide (GO), an oxidized graphene produced by a scalable chemical method. GO shows a good balance of stiffness, density and damping when assembled into micrometers thick layered structure and has been shown to perform significantly better than commercial diaphragms by ORA. The biggest current challenge is to further decrease the production time and cost to an industrially viable level while maintaining the structural ordering and properties of the diaphragm. Here, we propose different chemical formulations and manufacturing solutions that will enable roll to roll production of GO diaphragms with minimal compromise on its properties. The development of these processes will help ORA complete its first customer delivery of over 3000 pairs of headphones and in the long run and pave the way for the mass production of its diaphragm material.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Thomas Szkopek

Student:

Kaiwen Hu

Partner:

TandemLaunch Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Advanced manufacturing

University:

Program:

Elevate

Development of the Tat-GluN2BCTM peptide as a novel therapy for acute myocardial infarction

Acute myocardial infarction (commonly known as a heart attack) is a major disease of the cardiovascular system and a leading cause of death and hospitalization in North America. It results in 7.4 million deaths globally per annum. Current clinical medications only prevent the disease but cannot cure it after a heart attack occurs. Scientific evidence suggests that DAPK1 is a vital protein that can cause heart damage during a heart attack, and I have created a compound that is able to reduce the level of DAPK1 in the heart so as to prevent heart damage. In this project, I propose to test the efficacy of this compound in various models of heart attack, which may lead to a novel therapy for this devastating disease. This proposed project will not only give me a comprehensive training in scientific research, but also help the partner organization, a Canadian biotechnology company, rapidly grow its product pipeline.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jian Ye

Student:

Wu Yang Jin

Partner:

Primary Peptides Inc

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

High Average Power – Frequency domain Optical Parametric Amplifier (HAP-FOPA)

The goal of this proposal is to make the most advantage of the recently developed technique of Frequency domain Optical Parametric Amplification (FOPA) by pushing this technology to unprecedented levels. The IP has been protected by the group of prof. François Légaré from INRS-EMT. The main inventor, Bruno Schmidt, has founded few-cycle Inc. to commercialize this disruptive technology in Canada. Prof. Légaré and few-cycle Inc. are the partners of the current proposal.
One particular aspect of this laser is its incredibly short pulse duration consisting only of few cycles of the electric field. The current state of the art of few-cycle infrared (IR) laser at the research level operate at average powers of a few watts. A commercial product is not yet available at IR wavelengths. The aim of this 1 year project is to increase the average power by one order of magnitude. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Student:

Partner:

Few-cycle Inc

Discipline:

Journalism / Media studies and communication

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Accelerate

Quantifying the value and risk of restoring wetland habitats in agricultural landscapes

Wetlands provide critical habitat and valuable ecosystem services. Land use conversion in Ontario, however, has led to substantial wetland loss. The restoration of wetlands on agricultural properties has the potential to offset wetland loss, yet these wetlands are also susceptible to contamination by pesticides. Our research will therefore establish: (1) to what degree restored wetlands retain pesticides, (2) whether restored wetlands with varying concentrations of pesticides support wildlife, specifically aquatic invertebrates, and (3) whether invertebrates that disperse through the terrestrial landscape can differentiate between contaminated and uncontaminated aquatic habitats. We expect that restored wetlands in agricultural settings will accumulate pesticides, and will be low quality habitat (i.e., sinks) for sensitive insect species, which will not be able to preferentially choose uncontaminated habitats. However, we also expect that less sensitive species will not be greatly impacted by pesticide load, and may therefore benefit from restored wetlands. This project will allow the postdoctoral applicant to apply her current research interests in the assembly of aquatic communities to a conservation issue. Our work will also benefit Ducks Unlimited Canada, who are evaluating the risk of pesticides to wetland function, and who can redirect restoration strategies and methodologies based on our results.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rebecca Rooney

Student:

Sarah French

Partner:

Ducks Unlimited Canada

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Elevate

Efficacy of a novel anti-IL-1B receptor modulator in reducing preterm birth impact on neurovascular health – Year two

Preterm neonates ill-adapted to the extra uterine environment are prone to increased inflammation in multiple organs and the proinflammatory interleukine IL-1b has been closely implicated in brain injury associated with preterm birth (PTB). Notably, PTB survivors have a greater propensity to develop ischemic brain lesions long after birth. Here, we hypothesize that the neural vasculature of premature infants becomes irresponsive to hypoxic-ischemic stress. Our project will study the molecular mechanisms underlying brain revascularisation potential in a mouse model of PTB combining in utero inflammation and neonatal metabolic stress. We will evaluate the efficacy of newly discovered selective anti-IL-1 receptor modulator (Rytvela, Rytvel Biotech) in preserving brain vascular function. By targeting IL-1b signalling, the inhibition of neonatal inflammation could thus protect children from enhanced vulnerability to brain damage and its devastating consequences on health.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Sebastien Joyal

Student:

Gael Cagnone

Partner:

Rytvel Biotech Inc

Discipline:

Visual arts

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

Program:

Elevate

Development of a novel Saccharomyces yeast RNAi production and delivery platform

Heavy pesticide and antibiotic use are prevalent in modern agriculture and is an essential requirement to feed the ever-increasing human population. Their increased use, however, has also resulted in a loss of ecological biodiversity, environmental contamination, emerging pesticide/antibiotic resistance and is an economic burden to farmers, especially in low income nations. The research proposed aims to develop novel alternative agricultural bio-control technology centered around Baker’s yeast, a common and non-toxic organism used in baking and brewing. This technology has the potential to be pest/disease specific, more efficient and stable, cost-effective and completely non-toxic to the environment; furthermore, this technology would also address a significant need in Canada and the world and would put Canada on the map as a world leader in a rapidly growing market.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laura Sly

Student:

Cassidy Erdelyan

Partner:

Renaissance BioScience Corporation

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Advanced Composite Membranes for Water Vapour Separations

Membrane based energy recovery ventilation (ERV) is now a key component of most energy efficient modern buildings. The ERV market is estimated to grow to $3.8B by 2022. ERVs improve the indoor air quality of buildings through ventilation and reduce the energy cost of ventilation by using building exhaust air to pre-condition fresh building supply air. In cooling conditions heat and humidity are removed from the incoming air and in heating condition heat and moisture are added to the incoming air. The membrane in the device allows the transport heat and moisture without transport of other gases and contaminants from the exhaust air to the supply air. Current polymeric membrane ERV technology is durable and has moderate performance, but new materials are required to further increase the membrane vapour transport performance and function to make more efficient devices. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Majid Bahrami

Student:

Seyed Mohammadali Rahnama

Partner:

CORE Energy Recovery Solutions

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Small-scale Continuous Purification of Nanoparticles and Therapeutic Proteins

Our group developed a new generation of chip-based small-scale devices for continuous purification of chemicals and nanoparticles, based on the interactions of analyte with multiple types of driving forces in an electro-fluid-dynamic (EFD) system. One series of the purification devices has the electric field in parallel with the fluid flow direction (E?F), while the other series has two orthogonal driving force fields (E?F). Our two-dimensional (2D) EFD devices, in which both electric field and pressure-driven flow field are simultaneously utilized in 2D channel networks, provide better control on the analyte molecules or nanoparticles by having more adjustable variables. More importantly, continuous purification can be achieved with these devices. Our initial work based on simulations and polymer particles have shown the feasibility of the 2D EFD devices, and some results have been published. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Chen

Student:

Lingyu Wang

Partner:

Lipont Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

Program:

Elevate

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