Experiences

CSCI 444, CSCI 225, CSCI 350, CSCI 525, CSCI 455
Open Closing on September 23, 2025
Portal
St Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Contact
Associate Professor
2
Experience
4/15 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any company type
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Machine learning Artificial intelligence Data analysis Data modelling Data science
Skills
automated machine learning machine learning
Learner goals and capabilities

This experience is designed for learners with a foundational understanding of machine learning, with applications in any domain. Focused projects in biomedical computation, and health data analytics are also welcome. Participants will work in small teams or individually to apply their skills in coding and parallel computing to develop innovative AI solutions for real-world challenges in any domain, including in health care. The program aims to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application, enabling learners to create impactful technologies with real-world application. Although I tend to focus on medical applications, I make extensive use of general purpose AI, and students choose projects from all topic domains.

Learners

Learners
Undergraduate
Intermediate, Advanced levels
60 learners
Project
80-120 hours per learner
Educators assign learners to projects
Teams of 4
Expected outcomes and deliverables
  • Prototype of a machine learning model for predicting anything of interest
  • Technical report detailing the AI solution and its potential impact
  • Presentation of project findings and recommendations
  • Addition of novel features to AI models
Project timeline
  • September 26, 2025
    Experience start
  • September 30, 2025
    Phase 1
  • October 21, 2025
    Phase 2
  • November 18, 2025
    Phase 3
  • December 20, 2025
    Experience end

Project examples

  • Develop a machine learning model to predict hospital readmission rates
  • Design an AI system for personalized medicine recommendations based on patient data
  • Implement a parallel computing solution to accelerate AI analyses
  • Build a predictive analytics tool for early detection of chronic diseases
  • Create a machine learning algorithm to optimize resource allocation in hospitals
  • Design a system for real-time monitoring and analysis of patient vitals


Our past project examples:

  • Identifying Cortical Molecular Biomarkers Potentially Associated with Learning in Mice Using Artificial Intelligence
  • Diagnosing and Characterizing Chronic Kidney Disease with Machine Learning: The Value of Clinical Patient Characteristics as Evidenced from an Open Dataset
  • Mitigating Bias Due to Race and Gender in Machine Learning Predictions of Traffic Stop Outcomes

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

  • Q1 - Text short
    How is your dataset structured (ie. tabular/spreadsheet, images, time series data, natural language processing – ie. text data, other, some combination of those)? If other or some combination, please specify.  *
  • Q2 - Text short
    What is the task or tasks that the machine needs to predict/target? Is it a classification task, a regression task, multiple tasks to predict?  *
  • Q3 - Text short
    How many samples/instances do you have available for training? (ie. rows in spreadsheet, number of images, number of text examples, etc.)  *
  • Q4 - Text short
    How many features are available in the dataset (ie. columns in a spreadsheet, size of the image dimensions, length of the time series, length of text data inputs, etc.)  *
  • Q5 - Text short
    Is there anything special or unusual about your data that you think I should know about?  *
  • Q6 - Document
    Please ensure your dataset is uploaded here, or confirm the date when we can expect to receive it.