Genome sequencing is a computationally intensive problem that requires substantial amounts of time and energy using traditional processors. Current GPUs and FPGAs’ benefits are not easily available to bioresearch facilities due to high equipment costs and lack of technical background. The objective of this project is to design a web application that provides FPGAs as a service that allows users to run genome sequencing on cloud FPGAs implemented by us without any technical knowledge. Therefore, this technology is faster, cheaper, and easier.

According to WHO, ~50% of patients do not adhere to prescribed medication schedules - limiting effectiveness of treatment. Medistation is a solution for improving adherence by incorporating an automatic pill dispenser and vitals monitoring wristband to offer a comprehensive support system for patients. The pill dispenser follows a predefined schedule and the wristband monitors user vitals via sensors. An Internet of Things (IoT) system wirelessly connects the components. Medistation tracks adherence and potential side effects to allow for continuous administration of the most effective treatment.

Research shows that on average, every Canadian will waste 400 kilograms of food every year, with about 40 percent occurring in homes. Canada is one of the leading countries in food wastage, leading to $30 billion in costs and 21 million tonnes of greenhouse emissions. Being students, we know the struggles to keep track of all the groceries in the fridge, let alone how to use all of them before they expire. The objective of this project is to design a system that minimizes the amount of waste from expiring foods. Expire-I offers users the ability to minimize the amount of waste they create by using cameras to periodically scan the items in the fridge (image processing), to keep track of total items. Expire-I will also use an app to notify the user about close-to expiring foods. Not only that, the app will recommend recipes based on those expiring foods and the newer items in the fridge, providing an immediate solution. The current solutions on the market, pertaining to food waste, do not have all the capabilities of Expire-I and only provide one feature at a time, whereas Expire-I offers multiple features in one.

Whether it is simulating folding proteins for biomedical sciences, or validating machine learning models, there is an increasing demand for computing resources to tackle massively parallelizable problems. MOSHPIT seeks to provide an easy-to-use, low-cost alternative to expensive cloud computing services for these problems. It is a crowdsourced compute platform that allows individuals to volunteer their idle computing resources towards projects in need over the internet. Project-creators can submit workloads to take advantage of this donated pool of resources while the platform handles the workload distribution.

72% of voters who felt that the 2020 US presidential elections were unfair believed that ballots were tampered with in some way. While the world has evolved, the voting system that is part of the democratic process has not evolved with it. This has led to a visible decrease in people’s confidence with the democratic process. VoteChain aims to restore faith in this process by using open-source blockchain and smart contract technology to make a voting system for the future.