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13270 Completed Projects

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Projects by Category

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Computer science
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Engineering
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Engineering - biomedical
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Engineering - chemical / biological

AccessiBelt – Car Seatbelt for Users with Limited Hand Dexterity

Our hand function can be affected by different diseases and disorders, such as arthritis and neurological injuries. Having limited hand function will immensely affect our life and will make everyday simple tasks challenging. There are about 1 million Canadians who reported struggling with daily activities due to this limitation. One task that is challenging for a person with limited hand function is buckling and unbuckling a car seatbelt. Car seatbelts are life-saving devices and are crucial for the protection of passengers in a car. Creating an accessible device such as AccessiBelt will allow individuals with limited hand function to easily and independently buckle and unbuckle their car seatbelt, and will thus improve their overall quality of life. Rick Hansen Institute aims to improve the life of individuals with spinal cord injuries, and partnering with them will contribute to this mission.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roger Tam

Student:

Alaa Heshmati

Partner:

Rick Hansen Institute

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Development of an NLP Sales Assistant using Machine Learning Techniques

The main goal of this project is to develop machine learning and natural language processing approaches to help customers to communicate their preferred brands and/or retailers via Heyday solutions. These approaches will automate answers and help to humanely engage with customers. In order to reach these objectives, some challenges will be tackled such as automatically recognizing the users intent and replying to frequently asked questions. Recognizing ambiguous words is another challenging task to provide accurate answers. In order to reduce the risk related to sensitive subjects and questions (e.g. health related questions), a machine learning approach will be developed and integrated, also.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nizar Bouguila

Student:

Francisco Xavier Sumba Toral;Md. Hafizur Rahman

Partner:

Heyday Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Masonry Construction as a Solution for Healthy and Resilient Buildings: A Life Cycle Thinking Based Evaluation

This research aims at life cycle thinking-based comparison of popular wall material (i.e., wood, concrete, masonry, etc.) for institutional, commercial, and industrial (ICI) building construction in Canada. Empirical studies will be used to observe the deterioration of interior and exterior masonry wall systems in various climatic regions. Life cycle sustainability assessment would be used to evaluate social, environmental, and economic impacts. Alternative wall construction methods will be compared using a methodological framework that integrates TBL, resiliency, and occupant health. Fuzzy logic will be used to account for data uncertainties. The knowledge generated will be used to develop decision support tools, best management guidelines, and green procurement guidelines. This research will contribute to the body of knowledge on masonry construction. Moreover, this research will guide institutions in achieving a healthy and resilient ICI building stock.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rajeev Ruparathna

Student:

Kartik Patel

Partner:

Masonry Worx

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Developing effective eDNA tools for environmental monitoring at MOWI salmon aquaculture sites in Atlantic Canada

This project addresses a major challenge in ensuring the sustainability of the salmon aquaculture industry: how to reliably monitor the effects of organic waste (excess feed and feces) on the surrounding marine environment, in an environmentally-friendly way.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Suzanne Dufour

Student:

Joost Verhoeven

Partner:

Northern Harvest Sea Farm Ltd

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Supersingular Isogeny-Based Cryptography

In the near future the way that we encrypt and authenticate information online may not be safe. For this reason, we need to create new tools that will enable secure communication for many coming years. The proposed research is to create such tools from a certain algebraic object called isogenies. These are functions that take one elliptic curve to another. Breaking isogeny-based encryption is thought to be difficult, and so we will be able to create other cryptographic tools from them besides encryption. In addition to constructing such tools, the proposed research includes making them have fast performance on computers and mobile devices without any loss of security.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Jao

Student:

Christopher Leonardi

Partner:

ISARA Corporation

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Collision-free Farm Field Coverage Path Planning using Autonomous DOT Vehicles

The objective is to: (1) develop full-coverage path plans for an autonomous DOT vehicle, designed and developed by Dot Technologies Corp., operating in a farm field, and (2) avoid collision with other agricultural machines operating in the same field, e.g., a combine, via model-based motion tracking using on board camera vision.
A software suite, with a user-friendly GUI, will be developed, where the user can upload a satellite image of a farm filed, and also the type of agricultural implement to be used. The software will provide an optimal path that can be uploaded to the control unit of a DOT vehicle. The optimal path found via simulation would produce a path that has the best coverage, minimum number of turns, and straight-line motions that can be implemented via GPS feedback.
Furthermore, the proposed model-based motion tracking algorithm, when implemented on the DOT vehicle, can detect other vehicles, estimate their direction of motion and speed, and provide action plans to avoid collision for safe navigation.
This will pave the way towards an improved yield via safe and precise navigation of the DOT vehicles in a farm field.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mehran Mehrandezh;Farokh Janabi-Sharifi

Student:

Behnam Nasirian;Sina Sajadi

Partner:

SeedMaster

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Development of an Integrated sensor system for automated on-the-spot measurement of physical soil properties

This project focuses on the development of an integrated physical soil properties sensing system as an add-on option for a new electrically powered autonomous off-road platform (e.g., robotic electrical tractor). The system will allow further expansion of the electric tractor’s robot functionality when collecting soil samples and or mapping land resources. The sensor system incorporates conventional sensor technologies as well as innovative sensors such as acoustic propagation and air permeability sensors, in order to autonomously collect data and generate soil property maps. This reduces the labour normally required to collect samples while increasing the quality and quantity of available soil data through standardized measurement operations, providing important information such as soil texture, compaction, and moisture.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Viacheslav Adamchuk

Student:

Pierce Dias Carlson

Partner:

Ztractor Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - other

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate International

Internal Communication for Business Organizations

This project will explore the ways that businesses communicate internally, with their employees and other stakeholders. In order to determine what the current best practices are in terms of how to communication to employees, through which platforms or media, or using specific strategies, the intern will conduct a thorough review of academic and ‘grey’ literature (not quite academic and not quite popular, for example, business magazines). The intern will compile a report for the partner organization in order to help with their own internal communication best practices and product development. With the proliferation of communication technologies, and the amount of information available to employers and employees, understanding the best way to communication company goals, strategy, training, and more, to employees sets organizations apart from their competition, both for retaining skilled employees, and to best allow their employees to fulfill company goals in providing their products and services to customers and clients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter Chow-White

Student:

Philippa Adams

Partner:

IC Thrive

Discipline:

Journalism / Media studies and communication

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Modelling the current and future (2025) state of travel demand in the Toronto-Waterloo Innovation Corridor

The economic productivity and social quality of life within the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) in general and the Toronto – Waterloo Innovation Corridor in particular depends on a high-quality transportation network that provides cost-effective, attractive mobility to the regions residents and businesses. Expansion of the GGH road and transit networks, however, has not kept up with the region’s rapid and sustained growth over the past several decades. While major new transportation infrastructure investment is needed to fill this gap, such projects typically take decades and billions of dollars to complete. This project involves a comprehensive investigation of short-run improvements that can be made to the region’s transportation services (particularly its surface transit network) that will significantly improve the system’s performance over the next few years while longer-term major expansions to the system are being planned and built.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eric J Miller

Student:

Ahmadreza Faghih Imani;Ka Cheung Kevin Wong

Partner:

Toronto Region Board of Trade

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Community Engagement and Ownership of Projects Emerging from Social Innovation Labs

The purpose of the proposed research is to identify the factors and indicators that enable, or block community actors from taking ownership of a solution previously led by a social leader or government actor. The project will allow our partner and the communities they work with to gain a better understanding of factors that enable the transition of projects to ownership within the community, as well as further the available research and knowledge for other government or social led business ventures transitioning ownership to the community. The key objectives for the research are to identify the indicators that create a space for a community actor to take on ownership of a project, specifically looking at the factors that attracted them to take on this ownership role and how they took on this position. In doing so, we will trace the path through which impact occurs by mapping interactions between actors and groups directly and indirectly involved in the project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chantal Hervieux

Student:

Meghan Brodmann

Partner:

Common Good Solutions

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Education

University:

Saint Mary's University

Program:

Accelerate

Validation of Selective Phytocannabinoids Using In Vitro Glaucoma Models

Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness in the world, mainly induced by increased pressure in the eye. Marijuana has been shown to reduce such pressure, thus benefit glaucoma patients. In the previous project, we screened several individual components from marijuana extracts and tested their ability on keeping cells alive. The current project puts an emphasis on neuroprotection and therapeutic aspects of glaucoma. We propose to target and analyse the effect of our selected compound for major downstream pathways that are significantly modulated in to Glaucoma pathology. These projects will provide pre-clinical data to support the compound possessing potential therapeutic value for the patients with Glaucoma in the future.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ujendra Kumar

Student:

Shenglong Zou

Partner:

InMed Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Evidence based delivery of effective packages of health services in humanitarian, fragile and conflict affected settings

Maternal, and childhood mortality and morbidity rates continue to rise in conflict affected areas. The Canadian Red Cross (CRC) is collaborating with the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) to implement Advanced Health Partnership (AHP) framework to provide health care to populations directly in war zones and conflict settings, without access to healthcare as a result of conflict. In delivering these services with a focus on providing services to women an, children, there is an opportunity to ensure that delivery of these services is based on best available practices and good quality data for evaluation of these services is generated. Through this internship, I will work with the Global Health Unit of the CRC and collaborate with the ICRC in the implementation of the AHP framework. I will analyze existing frameworks for providing health services design study to evaluate the delivery of AHP pilot project in South Sudan.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amardeep Thind

Student:

Faiza Rab

Partner:

Canadian Red Cross

Discipline:

Epidemiology / Public health and policy

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

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