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Engineering - chemical / biological

Spelling Correction for Improved Detection of Malicious Chat Messages

Cyberbullying, sexting, profanity and other forms of malicious chat messages have become increasingly common in online virtual worlds and social networks that are used by children and teenagers. These conversations are dangerous to children. The partner organization has already implemented a rule based filtering system to filter out malicious messages. However, not all the malicious messages can be filtered out since people invent subtler forms of malicious messages in an effort to subvert such filtering systems. This project will employ the spelling correction techniques to convert the subtler forms of malicious messages into their original forms. It can improve the performance of filtering system to be more robust against subtler forms of malicious messages.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anoop Sarkar

Student:

Zhelun Wu

Partner:

Two Hat Security Research Corp.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Methods to improve high-resolution airborne thermal infrared (TIR) imagery in support of urban waste heat mapping, monitoring and metrics

This proposal builds on 5 years of research in the award winning HEAT (Heat Energy Assessment Technologies) project. Every year, billions of GJ of wasted heat leave millions of buildings in thousands of cities world-wide. In an effort to support urban energy efficiency, this research proposes four novel image post-processing techniques to improve/verify the geometry, radiometry and the processing of large volumes of high-resolution airborne thermal infrared (TIR) imagery. Results are expected to enable faster and more accurate urban waste heat mapping and refined waste heat metrics. Analysis will take place on 825km2 of TABI-1800 airborne TIR data acquired at night (2012) over the city of Calgary, Alberta at a 50cm spatial resolution and 5/100 deg C thermal resolution. The planned benefit to Uncommon Innovation (the Partner) is the opportunity to commercialize these improved HEAT products as green web services, which are increasingly being requested by municipalities, utilities, and Realtors to support urban energy efficiency, low carbon living and green buildings worldwide.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Geoffrey Hay

Student:

Man Fai Wu

Partner:

Uncommon Innovation

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Distributed Control Strategy Development for Demand-Side Energy Management in Commercial Buildings With Photo-Voltaic and Energy Storage

Increasing global energy demand coupled with efforts to reduce our carbon emission has pushed for improved energy efficiency in many areas. One area in need of improvement is residential and commercial buildings. Specifically, the demand-side energy management of commercial buildings can be improved significantly with improved control. With the addition of on-site renewable energy generation such as Photo-Voltaic and energy storage, a large commercial building can be optimally controlled to provide reliable, stable power while maintaining minimal wasted energy. The goal of this project is to develop a robust demand-side energy management control strategy utilizing model predictive control and multi-objective optimization techniques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Biao Huang

Student:

Yuan (Gary) Wang

Partner:

Vancouver International CleanTech Research Institute

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Automatic Spam Alert System for Online Social Media

Online discussion forums are examples of social media that are becoming popular. The goal is to develop efficient and scalable techniques that work on large amounts of conversational text to separate the posts that truly matter from irrelevant ones, as well as techniques that are easily adaptable to new domains and forums. VerticalScope, Inc. is a Canadian company that owns and operates one of the most highly visited networks of online forums. Being able to focus on relevant discussions for the discovery of business insights allows VerticalScope to provide businesses with detailed high-quality information. In addition, identifying irrelevant and spam messages helps VerticalScope improve user experience on its forums, and hence the attractiveness of its service to the businesses.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Graeme Hirst

Student:

Wenjie Zi

Partner:

VerticalScope Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

The effect of dynamic information display on perception of public restroom cleanliness

The cleanliness of restroom drives people’s preferences. In places such as hotels, restaurants and hospitals, a dirty bathroom will drive away potential customers as it lead them to question the cleanliness of the whole facility. Visionstate Inc. developed WANDA (Washroom Attendant Notification Digital Aid), a LCD touch screen that display the time of most recent restroom service and a interactive interface to request restroom maintenance. The proposed study is to investigate whether features of WANDA enhance people’s perception of bathroom cleanliness. The study asks people to fill out an anonymous survey when they exit a public restroom, asking about how clean they feel the bathroom is. If the study found people perceive the bathroom to be cleaner with presence of WANDA, the finding would help Visionstate Inc. to promote WANDA to clients. If WANDA is ineffective to influence the perception of cleanliness, the finding might help Visionstate to further improve product features.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jeremy Caplan

Student:

Yang Liu

Partner:

Visionstate Inc.

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Pharmacological and phytochemical characterization of immunomodulatory polysaccharides from American ginseng

Ginseng is a medicinal plant with a long history of traditional use. The medicinal properties of ginseng root have been attributed to two main classes of chemical compounds: ginsenosides and polysaccharides. While much is known about ginsenoside pharmacology, less is known about polysaccharide pharmacology. One of the most important properties of ginseng root polysaccharides is their ability to stimulate the immune system. Much of this work has been carried out in laboratory experiments where the effects of the gut on these polysaccharides are ignored, even though the gut plays an important role in determining which polysaccharides make their way in to the blood. This study proposes to investigate the way the gut breaks down and then absorbs ginseng polysaccharides, and how these absorbed polysaccharides affect immune cells found in the blood. By identifying the polysaccharides that make their way in to the blood and how they can affect our immune system, we can have a much better understanding of the most medicinally relevant constituents of ginseng root. This information can be used to develop better ginseng root products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Edmund Lui

Student:

Brendan Walshe-Roussel

Partner:

Western Phytoceutica Inc.

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing Economic, Policy, and Institutional Barriers to Successful Forest Restoration in the Interior Douglas-fir Zone

This research project will explore what barriers — economics, policy, or otherwise — exist to restoring unhealthy Douglas-fir forests in central British Columbia. These forests have reached a state where it is currently not feasible for timber companies to make any profit from harvesting timber in those stands, which only serves to worsen the problem. In order to find a solution, not only do the barriers need to be identified, but also the risks of both action and non-action. To do this, this project will ask questions to both members of the industry, as well as members of the provincial government. A new approach is needed, but until the root causes of the problem are known, a proper strategy for fixing it cannot be properly implemented. Identifying these issues will give the partner organization the knowledge needed to restore a healthy supply of fibre in the area.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Harry Nelson

Student:

Judah Melton

Partner:

West Fraser Timber

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Forestry

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Xahive Expansion Project

The XAHIVE mandate is to improve the privacy and security of communication between professionals. At XAHIVE, Carleton students will be researching a differentiator in communication encryption and decryption coupled with a significant increase the convenience while retaining all levels of existing functionality. Additionally, students will be researching methods and processes to convert XAHIVE into an extensible platform that can be integrated into existing solutions and to enable the development of new solutions by third parties. In each case, students will be analysing and documenting how these types of innovations impact and enable the business and professional communities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steven Muegge

Student:

Mohamed Amin

Partner:

Xahive Corp.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a Patient Aid for Grading of Acne Severity and a Comprehensive Acne Quality of Life Instrument (CompAQ) for Acne Patients

The overall objective of this work is to gain a better understanding of the experience of patients living with acne and how to support their decision making process in terms of acne treatment options. This research will investigate issues surrounding how patients understand how to accurately determine the severity of their acne and the treatment options available to them. From this, an effective patient aid will be developed to inform and support patient’s decision-making process when seeking treatment. This patient aid will include an acne severity grading scale, and established treatment guidelines. This study will also develop a comprehensive measure of acne quality of life (CompAQ) to gain a better understanding of the experience of patients living with acne above and beyond the physical concerns (e.g., psychological and social considerations). This measure will help to determine quality of life outcomes resulting from acne treatments in clinical trials.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gregory Chung-Yan

Student:

Lisa Plant

Partner:

Windsor Clinical Research Inc.

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Ulkatcho integrated resource utilization and business planning

The Ulkatcho First Nation is being empowered by the provincial government to take more control over its socio and economic affairs. One critical parts of the transitioning is for the Ulkatcho First Nation to manage their forest resources and operate forest related, manufacturing and energy businesses. The Yun Ka Whu’ten Development LP will be an active participant in their economic future, particularly in the area of forest land management, energy planning, community development and the manufacturing of wood and non-wood products. The transitioning for Ulkatcho community is a huge challenge and the purpose of this applied research project is to assist them with a set of ‘assessments’ of the key priority topics identified by their community and business leaders. The research can be classified into three main areas: land and resource management, business planning and regional economic development. The proposed topics include: Mountain caribou conservation design, mushroom growth analysis and wild food business, Chinese wood market analysis, product and corporate branding, wood pellet production, infrastructure analysis and logistics planning, bioenergy strategy and a deep sea port feasibility study.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gary Bull

Student:

Fattane Nadimi

Partner:

Yun Ka Whu'ten Holdings Ltd.

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Fluorescence Image Enhancement for Digital Pathology (DP) Scanners

Fluorescence imaging is a powerful technique to focus and acquire high-resolution pathology images that contain rich sources of information that is useful for diagnostics in clinical trials to study possible disease such as cancer glands and tumors. Despite the high definition images, the collected images are severely contaminated with noise artifacts which make most feature detection algorithms susceptible to such degradations. Besides, due to over-sized problem, a computational efficient algorithm is needed to process such data. The main objective of this proposal is to introduce an image analysis software that is capable of addressing two main challenges: first is to introduce a denoising algorithm to overcome both issues of low signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) and super-resolution problem. The second goal here is to localized tissues in fluorescence images for segmentation. This makes the storage of the data much more efficient in compressed format for any retrieval image processing tasks.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Konstantinos (Kostas) Plataniotis

Student:

Mahdi Hosseini

Partner:

Huron Digital Pathology

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

The Evolving Legal Services Research Project

How can public legal education and information help Canadians get justice in our legal system? With the demand for publicly-funded or low-cost legal services far exceeding the supply, public legal education and information (PLEI) is filling an increasingly larger role in meeting the legal needs of people with modest means. Yet we know relatively little about how PLEI can help people deal with their legal problems. examines the effectiveness of PLEI in helping low- and modest-income people address their legal problems. The research, conducted at legal clinics, will look at PLEI provided at various points along the legal services continuum, with the goal of identifying when PLEI is effective on a primarily stand-alone or self-help basis and when a fuller continuum of legal services, including PLEI, is required. This research will provide Community Legal Education Ontario / Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario (CLEO) with insights into the effectiveness of PLEI in helping low- and modest-income people address their legal problems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lesley Jacobs

Student:

Carolyn Carter

Partner:

Community Legal Education Ontario

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Legal

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

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