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Competition Results for the Discovery Accelerator Supplements Program 2017
NSERC is pleased to announce the 2017 competition results for the Discovery Accelerator Supplements Program (DAS).
The DAS Program aims to provide substantial and timely additional resources to accelerate progress and maximize the impact of outstanding research programs. In 2017, NSERC awarded $15 million to 125 applications in the DAS competition. These supplements are valued at $120,000 over three years.
The winners are listed below:
| Researcher | Research Title | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Bédard, André | Functional characterization of growth arrest-specific genes in primary fibroblasts | McMaster |
| Adamchuk, Viacheslav | Integrated Proximal Sensing of Soil and Crop | McGill |
| Addario-Berry, Louigi | Discrete disordered systems: extremes, algorithms, and optimization. | McGill |
| Asselin, Edouard | Advances at the Sulphide Mineral/Solution Interface: Improved Metal Extraction and Energy Storage | British Columbia |
| Bagot, Rosemary | Neural correlates of individual differences in positive and negative bias | McGill |
| Boegman, Leon | Internal solitary wave-induced sediment resuspension and offshore infrastructure loading | Queen's |
| Calarco, John | The mechanisms, function, and evolution of neuronal alternative splicing in Caenorhabditis species | Toronto |
| Cascante, Giovanni | Reliable nondestructive evaluation of damage in infrastructure and soil dynamic characterization using novel laser technology | Waterloo |
| Caswell, Jeffrey | Host-pathogen interactions in Mycoplasma bovis pneumonia of cattle | Guelph |
| Chiasson, Sonia | Human-oriented computer security | Carleton |
| Christen, Andreas | Mapping, attributing, and upscaling greenhouse gas exchange between complex land surfaces and the atmosphere | British Columbia |
| Clausi, David | Advanced Intelligent Computer Vision for Remote Sensing Scene Interpretation | Waterloo |
| Cobo, Eduardo | Function of host defense peptides in pathophysiology of intestinal diseases in production animals | Calgary |
| Coeurjolly, Jean-Francois | High-dimensional problems for spatial point processes | Québec à Montréal |
| Cojocaru, Monica-Gabriela | Generalized Nash games concepts: existence, tractability and applications to population models | Guelph |
| Coulombe, Sylvain | Plasma sources and processes for nanomaterial synthesis and reactive species production | McGill |
| Cranston, Emily | Transforming Nanocellulose Performance through Interfacial Engineering | McMaster |
| Czarnecki, Krzysztof | Model-Based Synthesis and Safety Assurance of Intelligent Controllers for Autonomous Vehicles | Waterloo |
| De Kievit, Teresa | Biocontrol pseudomonads: interaction with the plants they protect and grazing predators that threaten their existence | Manitoba |
| Devillers, Rodolphe | New geovisualization methods for supporting marine conservation planning | Memorial Univ. of Nfld |
| Dinavahi, Venkata | Real-Time Digital Simulation and Control of Multi-Terminal Direct Current Grids | Alberta |
| Dittrich, Bianca | Continuum limit, dynamics and holography in quantum gravity | Waterloo |
| Edwards, Roderick | Dynamics of genetic, biochemical and analog electronic networks | Victoria |
| Evans, Ben | Genomic mechanisms behind rapid evolution of sex determining systems | McMaster |
| Farooque, Aitazaz Ahsan | Development of Precision Agriculture Technologies to Improve Crop Productivity and Mitigate Environmental Risks: A Pathway to Sustainable Agriculture | Prince Edward Island |
| Fedorova, Alexandra | Performance comprehension of production software | British Columbia |
| Ferrari, MaudO | Sensory and cognitive ecology of risk assessment in a changing world | Saskatchewan |
| Finkelstein, Sarah | Peat carbon in the Earth system through time | Toronto |
| Friscic, Tomislav | The development and mechanistic understanding of solid-state reactivity for energy- and materials-efficient synthesis | McGill |
| Fu, Hu | Platforms and Internet market design | British Columbia |
| Gebotys, Catherine | Side Channel Monitoring of Embedded Secure and Safety Critical Devices in IoT | Waterloo |
| Genov, Roman | Transport-Aware Image Sensors | Toronto |
| Gillis, Todd | Mechanisms of change, cellular responses of the fish heart to physiological stress | Guelph |
| Girouard, Audrey | Design and Evaluation of Screen-less Deformable User Interfaces | Carleton |
| Giroux, Bernard | Monitoring géophysique des processus induits en sous-surface par l'activité anthropique | INRS |
| Godsil, Christopher | Quantum walks and graph spectra | Waterloo |
| Gordon, Reuven | Nano-Optomechanics with Applications to Protein Dynamics and Terahertz Technology | Victoria |
| Goward, Gillian | Beyond Lithium Ion - Magnetic Resonance Strategies for Characterization of Sodium-Air and Sodium-Ion Batteries | McMaster |
| Gravel, Dominique | Ecosytem functionning at the crossroad of biogeography and community ecology | Sherbrooke |
| Gravel, Michel | Development of New Carbene Catalysts and Design of Organocatalytic Reactions | Saskatchewan |
| Green, Daniel | Modelling the deformation and failure of sheet metal in high-strain rate forming | Windsor |
| Guichard, Frédéric | The emergence of functions in meta-ecosystems | McGill |
| Gunawardena, Arunika | Programmed cell death in plant development | Dalhousie |
| Guo, Yuhong | Collective Machine Learning for Semantic Data Interpretation | Carleton |
| Gurfinkel, Arie | Automated Software Verification: Foundations and Applications | Waterloo |
| Hillier, Kirk | Pheromone blend complexity in heliothine moths | Acadia |
| Hopkinson, Christopher | Ecosystem response to changing hydroclimatic regimes within Montane, Boreal and Taiga Ecozone transition areas; a multi-scale approach | Lethbridge |
| Houser, Christopher | Analytical Reasoning and Fuzzy Cognitive Maps of Barrier Island Response to Natural and Anthropogenic Forcing | Windsor |
| Hranilovic, Steve | Optical Wireless Communications - broadband connectivity in space, underwater and indoors | McMaster |
| Huang, Weimin | Further Investigation of Ocean Remote Sensing Using High-frequency and Microwave Radars | Memorial Univ. of Nfld |
| Irwin, Darren | Evolution of the causes of speciation: comparative analysis of genomic variation and the genetic basis of traits responsible for diversification | British Columbia |
| Jacobson, Alec | Robust Geometry Processing for Big Dirty Data | Toronto |
| Jan, Eric | Host cell substrates of RNA virus proteases | British Columbia |
| Jellinek, Andrew | Unlocking links between predicting explosive volcanism and forecasting its effects on climate | British Columbia |
| Jodoin, Bertrand | Cold Gas Dynamics Manufacturing Process Development for Smart Parts | Ottawa |
| Johnsrude, Ingrid | How voice familiarity facilitates intelligibility of degraded and masked speech | Western Ontario |
| Jones, Nina | Signalling mechanisms of the ShcD adaptor protein | Guelph |
| Kadem, Lyes | Optimal and Sub-Optimal Flow Configurations in the Heart: Application to Implantable Medical Devices | Concordia |
| Kerr, Jeremy | Predicting climate and land use change impacts on pollinators across landscapes to continents | Ottawa |
| Kerschbaum, Florian | Systems for Computation on Encrypted Data | Waterloo |
| Kirshbaum, Daniel | Mesoscale controls on cumulus convection | McGill |
| Kirubarajan, Thia | Robust State Estimation in Uncertain Environments Using Point Process Models | McMaster |
| Kong, Dehan | Novel Statistical Methods with Application to Imaging Genetics | Toronto |
| Kordi, Behzad | Online Electromagnetic Condition Monitoring Techniques for High Voltage Systems | Manitoba |
| Lemire, Daniel | Faster Compressed Indexes On Next-Generation Hardware | TÉLUQ |
| Leslie, Sabrina | Single-molecule visualization and manipulation of protein and DNA interactions and dynamics, on nanoscale dimensions | McGill |
| Levin, David | Big Data for Fast and Accurate Numerical Simulation of Mechanical Structures | Toronto |
| Li, Xing-Fang | Bioanalytical developments and applications to drinking water safety | Alberta |
| Liang, Jinyang | Development of compressed ultrafast microscopy for real-time multi-scale neuroimaging | INRS |
| Liu, Xinyu | Advanced Microfluidic Nanobiosensing | McGill |
| Lumba, Shelley | Molecular mechanisms of dormancy and germination in parasitic and non-parasitic plants | Toronto |
| MacDougall-Shackleton, Elizabeth | Ecoimmunology and behavioural ecology of migratory songbirds | Western Ontario |
| Martin, Ryan | Point contact germanium detectors for rare event searches | Queen's |
| Massé, Eric | Emerging regulatory roles for tRNA fragments | Sherbrooke |
| McKenzie, Jeffrey | Integrated Research Program for Cold Regions Hydrogeology | McGill |
| Melin Meachem, Amanda | How we came to our senses: dietary ecology and primate sensory evolution | Calgary |
| Mohamed, Yasser | Modeling and Automation of Industrial Construction Operations | Alberta |
| Moore, Jonathan | Climate Resilience of Salmon Watersheds | Simon Fraser |
| Musselman, Kevin | Functional Nanomaterials for Ubiquitous Electronic Devices | Waterloo |
| Muzzin, Adam | Observing the Birth of Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn and Maximizing Canada's Investment in JWST and Euclid | York |
| Narasimhan, Sriram | Autonomous Monitoring and Decision-Making System for Bridge Infrastructure | Waterloo |
| Nikonov, Georgii | Main group compounds for bond activation and catalysis | Brock |
| Nissen, Edwin | Illuminating northern Cascadia earthquake faulting using satellite and airborne geodesy | Victoria |
| Nojeh, Alireza | Strong Heat Localization in Nanomaterials for Vacuum Nanoelectronics | British Columbia |
| Ojo, Olanrewaju | Advanced Joining of Gamma Prime Precipitation Strengthened Cobalt-base Superalloy | Manitoba |
| Ortiz, Julian | Geometallurgical modelling: algorithms for spatial prediction | Queen's |
| Park, Simon | Manufacturing of Multifunctional Nanocomposites | Calgary |
| Pasini, Damiano | Shape-transforming Mechanical Metamaterials | McGill |
| Pellizzoni, Rodolfo | Many-core Platforms for Time-Critical Systems | Waterloo |
| Piekny, Alisa | Studying mechanisms that spatially control cytokinesis | Concordia |
| Pineau, Joelle | Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Systems | McGill |
| Pisaric, Michael | From cells to biomes: the impacts of recent climate change on northern ecosystems | Brock |
| Plante, Jean-Sebastien | Integrated Magnetorheological Actuator Arrays for Robotic Hands | Sherbrooke |
| Pottinger, Rachel | Improving Recommending and Understanding Schemas and Their Provenance | British Columbia |
| Rabbat, Michael | Signal Processing Over Networks: Graph-Based Methods for Data Analysis | McGill |
| Radulescu, Matei | Predictability of detonation wave dynamics in gases: experiment and model development | Ottawa |
| Rainey, Jan | Understanding, engineering and exploiting protein self-assembly. | Dalhousie |
| Rochette, Martin | Optical sources for the 2-12 um spectral band of the mid-infrared | McGill |
| Ruths, Derek | Developing robust methods for the measurement of online social media populations | McGill |
| Saunier, Nicolas | More than transportation: An integrated framework to evaluate how streets serve all users | École Polytechnique de Montréal |
| Schriemer, David | Proteomics systems for integrative structural biology | Calgary |
| Scott, Alex | Tendon physiology and biomechanics | British Columbia |
| Scott, Stacey | Improving the Effectiveness of Co-located Collaboration Technologies | Guelph |
| Selinger, Peter | Algebraic and number theoretic methods for quantum circuits | Dalhousie |
| Servati, Peyman | Nature inspired, environment friendly fibrous flexible electronics and photonics | British Columbia |
| Sheel, William | Respiratory and neurovascular adaptation to physiological stress | British Columbia |
| Siaj, Mohamed | Synthesis and Functionalization of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides 2D Materials: Electrodes Design for Sensing Applications | Québec à Montréal |
| Sinclair, Brent | Biology of Arthropods at low temperatures | Western Ontario |
| Sjostrom, Per Jesper | Synapse-type-specific plasticity in neocortical microcircuits | McGill |
| Sleep, Brent | Thermally Enhanced Remediation of Groundwater Contamination | Toronto |
| Song, Jun | Bottom-up computational design of hybrid 2D/3D nanostructures | McGill |
| Spanner, Michael | Strong-Field Molecular Processes: From Novel Spectroscopies to Lasing in Air | Ottawa |
| Tang, Anthony | Mixed-Reality Interfaces for Remote Collaboration | Calgary |
| Thomaszewski, Bernhard | DF/CAD: Computer-Aided Design Tools for the Age of Digital Fabrication | Montréal |
| van Meyel, Donald | Using Drosophila to investigate the development and function of nervous systems. | McGill |
| Venditti, Jeremy | Fluid and Sediment Dynamics in Bedrock Rivers | Simon Fraser |
| Vermeire, Brian | High-Order Unstructured Methods for Large Eddy Simulation and Shape Optimization | Concordia |
| Wang, Z. Jane | Sparse Signal Processing and Modeling of High Dimensional Spatio-Temporal Data | British Columbia |
| Watson, Liam | Geometric structure and Floer theory of three-dimensional manifolds | Sherbrooke |
| Whyte, Lyle | Polar Microbial Ecology and Diversity | McGill |
| Wüthrich, Rolf | Electrochemical manufacturing technologies for Industry 4.0 | Concordia |
| Yano, Masayuki | Adaptive high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics | Toronto |
| Yu, Aiping | Next Generation Conventional and Micro Supercapacitors based on Functionalized Graphene Quantum Dots | Waterloo |
| Zhang, Hao | The Role of Cooperative Atomic Motion in the Plastic Deformation of Metallic Glasses | Alberta |
| Zheng, Huanquan | Molecular Mechanisms of Endoplasmic Reticulum Formation in Plant Cells | McGill |