This project involves adapting and delivering a health literacy program for immigrants living in rural British Columbia. The goal of this program is to build confidence and knowledge about health care. Participants learn about the health care system and how to access health services in their community. After attending, participants will report feeling confident in […]

Water Rangers uses citizen science to acquire baseline data for water bodies across Canada by giving and selling testkits to volunteers across Canada. This project will explore who is most likely to take part in water testing, what engagement strategies reduce dropout rates, and how testing water increase environmental concern by changing values and people’s […]

Canada is a leader in the global mining industry. At a time of increasing scrutiny of the role of business in society, mining executives now cite social risk as a key challenge to providing resources for global growth and sustainable development. This proposed research aims to assess approaches for mining companies to engage with stakeholders […]

Despite increasing accessibility to connect with others online, the general public is lonelier than ever (Blackpool, Gjøvik and Tokyo 2019). To address this growing pandemic of social isolation and loneliness, the current proposal plans to use experimental methods to examine how social media can be used to help reduce loneliness and promote overall mental well-being. […]

The development of supersonic and hypersonic vehicles demands careful consideration of the flow-induced heating on all the exposed surfaces. Given the cost and challenges associated with these complex flows, predictive modelling represents an essential component to the design strategies of these aerospace vehicles. The present work seeks to understand the modelling and numerical errors associated […]

The electric power industry is undergoing considerable changes with respect to structure, operation, regulation and modernization. One of the significant changes is the increased utilization of distribured energy sources (DES) such as wind and solar and other immerging technologies particularly in electric distribution systems. It is envisioned that DES will bcome the main source of […]

In a full-duplex hands-free voice communication system, a speaker located in a room at one end of the link may receive an echo of his/her voice due to the acoustic coupling between the loudspeaker and the microphone at the other end of the link. The goal of acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) is to remove such […]

Treatment of metastatic breast cancer is often unsuccessful and lead to 5000 deaths in Canada each year. Therefore, there is an unmet need for new drugs for prevention and/or treatment of metastatic disease. Ezrin is a protein marker commonly over-expressed in metastatic breast cancer. Preclinical studies show that blocking ezrin can significantly reduce metastasis in […]

Cameras are a fundamental component of modern robotic systems. As robots have become relied upon for safety-critical tasks, the need for robust sensing is apparent. Cameras have a major limitation, compared to other sensors such as LIDAR, in high-dynamic-range environments where lighting conditions rapidly change. These changes can cause visual navigation algorithms to struggle and, […]

Learning from relational data is crucial for modeling the processes found in many application domains ranging from computational biology to social networks. In this project, we propose to work on developing modeling techniques that combine the advantages of the approaches found in two fields of study: Machine Learning (through graph neural networks) and Statistical Learning […]

Bridge infrastructure constitutes a substantial portion of national wealth of Canada, whose performance during earthquake events has a significant impact on the public safety. This study focuses on investigating the force-based and performance-based seismic design of bridges specified in the latest versions of Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code 2014/2019. Numerical studies will be conducted, and […]

Persons with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) have high rates of liver disease-related symptoms and poor health-related quality of life – amongst the lowest of all chronic liver diseases. Patients and the Canadian PBC Society have identified the need for self-care tools to manage symptom burden. Building upon a previously developed online wellness program for inflammatory […]