Lassonde Undergraduate Summer Research Conference 2023 Agenda
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Thursday, August 17, 2023 | Location: Second Student Centre | 08:30 am – 05:30 pm
08:00 am – 09:00 am
09:00 am – 10:00 am
10:00 am – 11:00 am
11:00 am – 11:10 am
11:10 am – 12:30 pm
12:30 pm – 01:30 pm
01:30 pm – 02:45 pm
02:45 pm – 03:00 pm
03:00 pm – 04:00 pm
04:00 pm – 04:15 pm
04:15 pm – 04:30 pm
04:30 pm – 04:45 pm
04:45 pm – 05:30 pm
Lassonde Undergraduate Research Conference 2023 – Agenda
Thursday, August 17, 2023 | Location: Second Student Centre | 08:30 am – 05:30 pm
08:00 am – 09:00 am | Registration and Presenter Check-in
09:00 am – 10:00 am | Welcome Remarks
Land Acknowledgement
Guest Speakers
Amir Asif
Vice-President Research and Innovation
Rachel Sung
Senior Advisor, Business Development Mitacs
Keynote Speaker
Usman Khan
Chair, Department of Civil Engineering
10:00 am – 11:00 am | Session 1: Oral Presentations 1
UNSDG 9: Innovation in Space Engineering
Room A2
Hyunbin Yim
Tracking the temperature and current for RSOnar2 during flight
Tyler Chung
Development of a Remote 2-D Imaging Fabry-Pérot Spectrometer for Climate Change Sensing and Monitoring
Marissa Myhre
Tracking Mode For Attitude Determination
Lovejivan Sidhu
Advancing Space Sustainability: Autonomous Robotic System for Low Earth Orbit Debris Removal
UNSDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
Room B2
Umm Tasnim
Techno-economic Assessment of Drinking Water Supply Options in the Age of Climate Change
Basit Ilyas
Low-Cost and Flexible Microfluidic Devices for Electrochemical-Based Water Quality Monitoring
Ammar Mahgoub
Expansion of a Pilot Plant at Ajax Treatment Plant
John Brown
Microfluidic Droplet Based Polymerization of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Biological Applications
UNSDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being
Room C2
Alice Fours
Vascularization in Tissue Engineering: Engineering Functional Blood Vessels in 3D-Printed Biomaterials for Enhanced Transplantation Outcomes
Faress Madhoun
Leveraging Local Sauna for Sweat Collection and Analysis via Microfluidic Platforms
Yedidja Tshebe
Design and Fabrication of a Microfluidic Saliva Collection Device in Integration with a Pacifier-Style Biosensor
Demetrios Koudoumnakis / Menachem Guttmann
Wireless Wearable EEG Monitoring Device with Artifact-Immune Energy-Efficient Active-Electrodes
UNSDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
Room E2
Giovanni De Lio
Geothermal Active Energy Structure Research
Jessica Buentipo
Gallium-Nitride Based Boost-Type Photovoltaic (PV) Maximum Power Point Tracker for Microgrid Energy Network
Shahrzad Rahmai
Cold-Climate Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contamination
Jaiden Fairclough
Thermo-Mechanical Efficiency of Energy Piles
11:00 am – 11:10 am | Morning Break
11:10 am – 12:30 pm | Session 2: Poster Presentations A
UNSDG 9: Innovation in Software and Computer Science
Poster 01A
Shalom Asbell
A Wait-Free Deque with Polylogarithmic Step Complexity
Poster 06A
Parsa Merat
Weighted Interval Scheduling: Power of Randomization and Predictions
Poster 11A
Prachurya Deepta Adikary
Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method for Generating Naturalistic Shapes
Poster 16A
Ammar Mohamed Mohieldin Ahmed Abouelmaati
Optimal Spectrum Partitioning and Power Allocation in Semi-Integrated Sensing and Communications System
UNSDG 9: Innovation in AI and Data Science
Poster 02A
Joaquin Reamirez-Medina
Innovating Scientific Research with AI: Broader Applications and a Case Study on Droplet Shedding Enhancement through Electrowetting and Shearing Airflow Techniques
Poster 07A
Katherine Ling
Compact Data Structures for Polyominoes
Poster 12A
Pranav Gupta
Machine Learning-Based Prediction and Optimization of Laser-Induced Graphene Properties
UNSDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being
Poster 04A
Hussain Mustafa
Rapid and Low-Cost Fabrication of Wearable Microfluidic Devices for Sweat Collection
Poster 09A
Elijah Paulsen
Development and Viability Assessment of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (pNIPAM) Blood Vessel Replacement for Tissue Engineering
Poster 14A
Mina Anton
Transforming Real-Time Non-Invasive Eye Disease Investigation through Microfluidic Contact Lenses Employing Capillary Flow for Tear Sampling.
Poster 17A
Ibrahim Rfifi
3D Printing of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs) & Microfluidic Devices
UNSDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Poster 05A
Sijin (Jenny) Ren
Automated Wheelchair Navigation: Object Detection and Tracking
Poster 10A
Bhavitesh Garg / Rupayon Haldar
Implementing AI Vision Technology on SARIT Vehicles for Safer and Sustainable Cities
Poster 15A
Kumar Vaibhav Jha
Graph Based Multi-Object Tracking for Traffic Intersection Analytics
Poster 18A
Kimia Rajaeifar
Interfaces for Long-Term Robot Operation (ILTROn): Enabling Intuitive Control of SnapBot
12:30 pm – 01:30 pm | Lunch
01:30 pm – 02:45 pm | Session 3: Oral Presentations 2
UNSDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Room A2
Avantika Utam
Getting Ahead of the Curve: SARIT Fleet Management and Security With Geo-Fencing
Shriya Agrawal
Carotenoid Production by Rhodosporidium toruloides using Renewable Substrates
Siobhan (Caitlyn) Hayden
Application of Crowd-Sourced Ionospheric Corrections to Precise Positioning in Smartphone Satellite Navigation
Julian Forsyth
Methods of Motion Planning and Obstacle Avoidance with Real-Time Tracking on an Automated Wheelchair
Ishleen Passi
Evaluating the Effect of Climate on the Mechanical Properties of Low Carbon Concrete
UNSDG 9: Innovation in 3D/Bio Printing
Room B2
Shree Gupta
Manufacturing and Optimization of Stretchable and Flexible Thermochromic Displays
Roozbeh Alishahian
Bioprinter Systems and Instrumentation – A Review of Engineering Verification & Validation Protocols
Annamalai Karuppiah
Planar Parallel Robot Design at the Mesoscale
Curtis Jaekl
Code Base Migration for Micro Inkjet Printer
UNSDG 9: Innovation in AI and Data Science
Room C2
John Lacalamita
Translating Digital Privacy: An Approach to Simplifying App Privacy Policies
Sharon Musa
Audio-Video Scene Recognition
Alexander Bianchi / Andrew Chai
Tuning up Big Data Systems with Machine Learning
Baidu Li / Shengxiong Wu
Machine Learning-based Input Seed Selection For Deep Learning Fuzzers
Kuimou Yu
‘Ellipti-linear’ Representations for Estimation of the 3D Rim of an Object from its 2D Occluding Contour
UNSDG 9: Innovation in Software and Computer Science
Room E2
Stefan de Lasa
Using Semantics and Geometry to Scale Monocular Depth Estimation Models
Wenhao Zhu
Improved Results for the Certain News Network (CNN) Problem
Prabjot Dhaliwal
Software Diversity in Microservices to Optimize the Performance and Availability of Software Systems
Shahen Alexanian
Upper and Lower Bounds for the Online Multiple-Knapsack Problem with Reservation Costs
02:45 pm – 03:00 pm | Afternoon Break
03:00 pm – 04:00 pm | Session 4: Poster Presentations B
UNSDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Poster 01B
Nikta Afzali
Discovering A Carotenoid Biofactory Called Rhodosporidium toruloides
Poster 06B
Nina Yanin
Optimal Risk-aware Point-of-Interest Recommendations during Epidemics
Poster 11B
Nicholas Di Scipio / Nicholas Macedo / Nikola Zuvela
Implementing a prototyping and design framework to accelerate time to market and use case adoption of the SARIT micromobility vehicle
UNSDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being
Poster 02B
Jeremy Xie
COVID-19 Induced Arrhythmia Classification: Feasibility of a Reduced Input Feature Artificial Neural Network
Poster 07B
Haydar Isa Senturk
Design and Optimization of Micro-Coils for Efficient Power Transfer to Brain-Implanted Medical Devices
UNSDG 9: Innovation in Virtual and Augmented Reality
Poster 03B
Damith Tennakoon
Enhancing Engineering Education through Virtual Reality: Simulating Drone Design and Mechanics in a Virtual Mechatronics Laboratory
Poster 08B
Ekaterina Kozlovsky
Exploring Perceptual Quality Loss in Context to Compression Related Artefacts in Virtual Reality
Poster 13B
Faruq Afolabi
Understanding Affordances and the Effects of Distortions in Shared Mixed Reality Environments
UNSDG 9: Innovation in Space Engineering
Poster 04B
Hashir Jamil
Exploring Xilinx Zynq FPGA Family: Enhancing Neural Network-based Object Detection for Space Situational Awareness
Poster 09B
Ian Porto
Solving the Degeneracy Issue in Finding Keplerian Elements Using Unscented Kalman Filters
Poster 14B
Connor Humphries
Space Based Optical Image Simulator – Object Insertion Tool (SBOIS OIT)
UNSDG 9: Innovation in AI and Data Science
Poster 05B
Faiz Ahmed
Visual Knowledge Mining: Identifying Duplicate Questions from Images on Stack Overflow for Improved Comprehension and Response Time
Poster 10B
Karolina Tchilinguirova
Application of Machine Learning Algorithms to Smartphone Satellite Navigation Data for Precise Positioning
Poster 15B
Hyewon Jeon
Graph Burning: A Model for Information Distribution in Social Networks