Posting active date: 22/1/2025
Name of corporate partner: Holland Bloorview
Application deadline: 2/28/2025
Corporate partner contact name and email: Mark Dennis: [email protected]
Location: Toronto – in office
Job title: 2025 Ward Summer Research Student – Elaine Biddiss
Job type: Internship (temporary full time)
Reporting to: Elaine Biddiss
Department: Bloorview Research Institute
Length (contract/internship): 12 weeks
Salary or range: $17.20 per hour
Start date: 5/5/2025
End date: 7/25/2025
Exclusive to Pathways Alumni? No
About the organization:
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is Canada’s largest pediatric rehabilitation hospital and is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. It has ranked amongst Canada’s top 40 research hospitals for more than a decade. Holland Bloorview has won numerous awards including Greater Toronto’s Top Employers, Canada’s Top Employers for Young People and Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures. We offer an inspiring, inclusive, innovative, and collaborative work environment with competitive compensation and benefit packages and programs that support ongoing learning and professional growth.
Job Summary:
The mission of PEARL (Possibility Engineering and Research Lab) is to conceptualize, develop, and evaluate innovative technologies that create possibilities for young people with disabilities to participate more meaningfully in arts, music, physical activities, and therapies. We are looking for an enthusiastic summer student to work on improving our interactive gaming platform Bootle Blast. Bootle Blast uses a 3D camera to track a player’s movements. The system consists of several mini games, each of which is played with different body movements, such as shoulder abductions, that may be relevant to their physical and occupational therapy goals. In this role, you will work on improving the functionality of mini games in Bootle Blast that use object detection to play.
Job responsibility:
- Learn how current colour based object detection is performed in Bootle Blast
- Research techniques to improve object detection
- Development of a new and improved object detection algorithm
- Additional duties assigned as required
Experience & Qualification requirements:
- Students must be enrolled in an undergraduate degree program with minimum GPA of 80%
- Previous experience in computer vision based algorithm design is required
- Previous experience writing software in C# is an asset
- Able to communicate effectively with staff and clients
- Ability to work collaboratively as a member of a multidisciplinary team
Please consult this webpage for more information.
How to apply:
The full application process can be found here.
Please fill out this form by February 7th ahead of your application: 2024-25 COS RASI mentees.
Apply here once form is completed.
Please submit the following in one (1) pdf file in the order indicated below:
1. A copy of your most recent curriculum vitae (CV)
2. A copy of your most recent unofficial university transcript
3. A list of two referees (recent professors, previous employers) who may be contacted to provide a letter of recommendation in the event you are shortlisted for the position. Please include the full name of referee, title/position, name of institution, institutional email address and phone number