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Engineering - chemical / biological

Towards interactive and adaptive visualizations for preferential choices and public engagement

Information visualization is gaining importance for analyzing large and complex datasets. There is evidence that user’s performance and satisfaction in working with visualizations can be influenced by cognitive or personality traits. Thus, researches have started investigating how information visualization tools could be made more effective and usable by enabling them to adapt in real-time to user’s traits. However past researches mostly focused on simple visualization such as bar charts, and simple tasks. The intern will contribute to this line of work by investigating user’s behavior when working with an advanced interactive interface designed by the partner organization, which combines different visualizations for making subjective decisions. The intern will study if past results found for simpler visualization/tasks still hold with this more advanced interface. The partner organization will benefit from this work by usability tests of their system as well as guidelines to design more effective and attractive interfaces.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Cristina Conati

Student:

Sébastien Lallé

Partner:

Metroquest

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

HTML5 Integrity and Performance

The research involved in this internship focuses on the performance and integrity of HTML5. In terms of performance, the intern will design and implement a set of tests that will be used to analyze the performance of HTML5 applications. These tests will focus on measuring the computational performance, network performance, as well as rendering performance of such applications. The results of this research will allow Irdeto to make informed decisions about security and performance tradeoffs in their HTML5 protection activities. In terms of integrity, the research aims to provide a certain level of assurance/confidence to advertisers that inject their advertisements on HTML5 pages. Essentially, we want to be able to guarantee that the user-detector JavaScript code injected by the advertiser has not been tampered with. We also want to make sure that it is not being displayed by websites that are not expected/approved, and finally, we want to ensure that the JavaScript code is not being manipulated by other code in the same context. The results of this research will provide means to improve the security and integrity of HTML5 applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Carlisle Adams

Student:

Mike Wakim

Partner:

Irdeto Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

From Data Collection, Cleaning, Integration and Management to Analytics, Prediction and Recommendation

Individuals (donors) wishing to donate funds to non-profit and/or charitable organizations want to know how the organizations operate and how effectively their donations are used. Dexterity has developed an online service called Place2Give which aims to answer those questions. The research project aims to employ social network analysis and data mining to enhance the data introduced into the databases used by Place2Give from which the data for the analysis of the charitable organizations behavior is extracted on a case by case basis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Reda Alhajj

Student:

Abdullah Sarhan

Partner:

Dexterity Consulting

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Service industry

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Color management for low light levels in OLED displays

The objective of the proposed research project is to develop a realistic color appearance model based on the human visual system’s functioning that addresses the issue of noise under low luminance levels. This will be incorporated into algorithms used in the color reproduction and retargeting algorithms of OLED displays. This model should give rise to reduced power consumption in OLED displays, while maintaining a high perceived quality of images. The project will also explore the effect of changing the white point to manage the circadian rhythm on OLED screens. The project will entail an evaluation and comparison of color gamuts on conventional LED and OLED displays, the development of solutions to use the OLED color gamut potential for power saving in mesopic and photopic vision conditions. The project will benefit the Alterview division of TandemLaunch in their development of color management solutions for mobile and tablet based computer displays.

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Faculty Supervisor:

James Clark

Student:

Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

Partner:

TandemLaunch Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of novel fuel additives for internal combustion engines

Fuel additives are used to increase oxygen content and lubricity of the fuel as well as enhance the efficiency of combustion, and reduce exhaust emissions (particulate matter, CO, NOx and SOx emissions). Vehicular pollution contaminates eco-system and affects human and plant life. The motivation of this research is to compliment petroleum based fuel additives by bio-based additives. The main objective of this research is to synthesize a novel glycerol ketal (solketal) as a biofuel additive and to prepare a single formulation of solketal and glycerol t-butyl ether for mixing with bioethanol blended gasoline to increase fuel efficiency and lubricity and to reduce exhaust gas emissions from transportation vehicles. This research will provide environmental friendly technologies to produce high-grade fuel additives for commercialization and if successful, it will generate additional revenue for the industry. Also, it will have positive environmental foot prints due to substitution of petroleum based products by bio-based materials.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ajay Dalai

Student:

Ravi Dhabai

Partner:

Spectrum Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Optimisation of a charging system for small electric vehicles using lithium ion batteries

Electric golf carts and other low speed electric vehicles use lead acid batteries. There are now more than two million low speed electric vehicles operating in North America. Based on lithium ion replacement and demonstration programs carried out by Electra and our partners, there appears to be a strong interest from these industries and other low speed vehicle manufacturers to convert to lithium ion battery packs. A majority of the fleets using low speed electric vehicles in North America have purchased and set up charging infrastructures for their vehicles. All of the chargers currently used are designed for lead acid batteries. If these chargers are used to charge lithium ion battery packs there is a high probability of damage occurring to the lithium ion packs due to an improper charging profile. In this proposal a development plan is presented for the development of a charge optimization system that will allow the continued use of lead acid chargers for lithium ion battery packs. The charge optimization system would work with the lead acid charger and would provide the optimized voltage and current profiles in real time for a lithium ion battery.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. William Dunford

Student:

Vanness Shen

Partner:

Electra Motor Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Long term modelling of power prices

Power prices are a significant contributor to the overall risk of almost any large-scale industry. In particular, energy companies such as TransAlta who are active participants in many regional power markets have a strong interest in understanding the long-term risks they are exposed to. This project seeks to develop a model that will help TransAlta to understand some of the uncertainty in medium  to long-term power prices in California, the Pacific northwest, and Alberta. This model will be based on the dynamics of daily settled power prices, and will seek to take into account projected changes in demand, generation capacity and emissions regulations, as well as any forward-looking information embedded in market prices for futures and other derivative contracts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Tony Ware

Student:

Matthew Couch

Partner:

TransAlta

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Optimization of residual stress of Ti-6Al-4V for Liquid Impingement Erosion Mitigation

The recent work done in collaboration with the group of prof. Bocher on water erosion mechanisms at ETS showed that the erosion in titanium Ti64 alloy compressor blades is based on crack initiation and propagation. These phenomena are dependent on material microstructure, as well as on the stress level. Ti64 alloys can have various types of microstructures and textures. Therefore, a better understanding of the impact of the microstructure and texture is required in order to define the optimum material condition. There are also various surface treatments allowing for introduction of compressive stress on the surface and subsurface region to decrease erosion rates. The residual stress field introduced to mitigate erosion needs to be designed as a function of stress field due to the high speed water impact. This will be achieved through the modeling of the high speed impact and resultant stress distribution.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philippe Bocher

Student:

Alexandre Gariépy & TBD

Partner:

Rolls Royce Canada Limited

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Producing bioactive peptides from left-over proteins of egg yolk after IgY extraction

Chicken egg yolk contains IgY antibodies that target various infectious disease and food allergens. IGY Inc is a company focused on utilizing chicken immune system for antibody production. Their innovative products have applications in food processing, therapeutics and diagnostics. IgY antibody contains 0.64% of total wet egg yolk and after extracting the antibodies, the leftover egg yolk is a material of low commercial value. Egg proteins are well known for its dietary value and also a rich source of bioactive peptides with anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory activities. The primary objective of this study is to develop an, economic and pragmatic technique to produce peptides from egg proteins and to access their different biological activities. Thus the successful completion of this research project will provide information to develop a new Natural Health Product (NHP), which will be beneficial for the long-term and sustainable growth of IgY Inc.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Hoon Sunwoo

Student:

Naiyana Gujral

Partner:

IGY Inc.

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Remote slit-lamp diagnostic tool

The main objective of the project is to provide the Institut de l’OEil des Laurentides (IOL) with the capability of receiving patients from remote locations without requiring the patients to physically come to the IOL. A remote diagnostic tool would allow the IOL to improve the comfort of patients as well as expand its activities to new locations farther away or outside of Québec. The main technological contribution of the project will be the development of a platform for remotely using a slit-lamp while preserving the stereoscopic vision capability that is currently available only to the locally located ophthalmologist. A stereoscopic capture, transmission, storage and display solution will be developed to support this effort. The validation of the system in a clinical practice environment will be performed to ensure the acceptability by ophthalmologists and the usability by non-specialized and remotely located technicians.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carlos Vazquez

Student:

Mohamad Kharboutly

Partner:

Institut de l'œil des Laurentides

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Development of analytical methods to monitor Curcumin compounds from Dried blood spot (DBS) samples

The work will develop a simple blood test that will enable the detection of a valuable Natural Health Product, Curcumin, that is commonly found in Tumeric, to be detected in blood samples from only a simple finger prick. It is believed that curcumin has important medicinal effects such as anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant activities. However, it is known that Curcumin absorption is quite low from simple consumption of turmeric and as a result a simple blood test will enable proper estimation of body absorption amounts for this valuable Natural Health Product.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Liang Li

Student:

Ameneh Gholami

Partner:

Supra Research and Development

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Exploration of the cloud programming paradigm applied to IMS

For economical and simplification purpose Operators in the Telecom market are looking to move as much as possible of their infrastructure from traditional deployment to Cloud deployment. However Cloud deployment of IMS still need to be defined and developed. This project aims at bringing further the knowledge for such a deployment and helping guide future development for Ericsson. This project focuses on providing future directions for the development of an IP Multimedia System (IMS) in a Cloud environment. Sharing resources throughout the network in a Cloud environment has many advantages in terms of the cost, maintenance, reliability and scalability. Through this project software architectural options for the design of an IMS adapted to the cloud programming paradigm will be evaluated. Based on those findings an existing prototype solution will be expanded and deployed on industrial hardware in a customer like environment to evaluate its viability.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fabrice Labeau

Student:

Mahdy Nabaee

Partner:

Ericsson Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

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