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NOW HIRING: Full-stack or Front-end Developer in Algonquin College’s Data Analytics Centre (DAC)

Now Hiring: A Full-stack or Front-end Developer

The Office of Applied Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Algonquin College has an open position for a full-stack or front-end developer. The approved candidate will have the title of “Research Assistant” and will work full-time-equivalent hours for eight months.

The applicants must be current Algonquin College students/undergrads. Unfortunately, developers who graduated in April 2020 or earlier do not qualify.

The candidates must have hands-on working experience with the following technologies, in order of priority:

  1. React, JavaScript, Html/CSS, Python
  2. Django Framework
  3. Cloud tools (AWS, GCP, e.g., Google API street view)
  4. Linux scripting (bash)

Please note that this position is different from a similar position posted in mid-July.
Therefore, feel free to apply even if you already applied to the previous announcement.

If you are a self-starter and meet these requirements we want to hear from you. Please send us your resume via e-mail to Theo Mirtchev, Managing Director, Data Analytics Centre (DAC), mirtcht@algonquincollege.com

Winners of Applied Research Day (August 2017)

Dancing Data Visualization

1st Place Winning Project

A data visualization tool built to create seamless data animations at the click of a button. This tool allows large data sets to showcase relationships that are often lost in multi-dimensional forms. We call these animations ‘Dancing Data’.

Presenters: Edmer Buen; Shannon Wilson; Geemakun Storey; Weikai Li
Project Facilitator: Adesh Shah
Project Manager: Theodore Mirtchev
Industry Partner: Global Advantage Consulting
first place project team

Big Data for Small Places

2nd Place Winning Project

BD4SP is a project that’s at its core is to supply small business and small places with the right tools to make better decisions in order to create growth. At the center piece of this project, we focused on Frontenac County, which struggled to make sense of all the information it had to pin point: where they should invest their money? Where are the healthy hamlets? What are the social demographic issues that affect those factors? And many more. This project is meant to give visual representation, make sense of the data that’s being supplied and help Frontenac make more calculated predictions in the its future.

Presenters: Robert Taracha; Anton Antonenko
Project Facilitator: Adesh Shah
Project Manager: Theodore Mirtchev
Industry Partner: Big Data for Small PlacesWinners of Applied Research Day (August 2017)

Masterpeice VR/Exchange Integration

3rd Place Winning Project

MasterpieceVR is the world’s first collaborative 3D painting, sculpting and modelling program for virtual reality. Create works of art, colourful characters, and objects with ease. Connect with people anywhere in the world and create together in real time, teach an art class, or share your creation.

Presenters: Kari Ball; Mitchum Drury; Morgan Morrell-Frewn; Alex Papineau; Arin Poray; Devin Shepherd
Professor: Greg Beaton
Industry Partner: Brinx Inc.
Third place project team

Now Hiring – Student Research Assistant Positions

Paid Student Researcher Positions with Algonquin’s Office of Applied Research and Innovation
Renewable full- and/or part-time contracts are now available.

Student Researchers

The Office of Applied Research and Innovation is building Algonquin’s brand new Data Analytics Centre. We are looking for skillful, knowledgeable developers who will be thrilled to learn new technologies and tackle real industrial problems.

Responsibilities:

  • Engage in real, practical, industry-driven applied research and development.
  • Collaborate closely with clients and teammates – developers, UX designers, testers – to guarantee the success of the project.
  • Design and develop custom software using both new and proven technologies and best practices.
  • Debug and troubleshoot data, code and workflows.

Requirements:

  • Students with various skill sets will be hired on a project-by-project basis. Experience with many of the following areas of ‘mainstream’ software engineering will be expected:
  • Python, Java, JavaScript, Node JS, C#, Linux bash shell scripting
  • Back- / Front-end / Full-stack web development.
  • HTML5, CSS, PHP, RESTful APIs, responsive web-design
  • Database design and administration, SQL, Apache server / MySQL…
  • Mobile app development, iOS, Android, cross-platform development
  • Thirst to learn new things and to constantly improve your work, problem-solver mentality

Preference will be given to students with some experience in cloud-based technology (Amazon Web Services, MS Azure, IBM Bluemix, Google Cloud APIs…), non-relational databases/NoSQL/MongoDB, parallel GPU programming and data sourcing, processing and visualization.

Please contact Dr. Theo Mirtchev (mirtcht@algonquincollege.com, 613 727 4723 / 6080) with your resume and a brief expression of interest.

New Applied Research Center Receives $2.3 Million

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Data Analytics Center First of its Kind

Companies in Ottawa seeking support with big data technologies now have a new resource, thanks to funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Algonquin College.

NSERC today announced the College will receive $2.3 million over five years ($460,000 per year) to fund a new Data Analytics Centre (DAC) which will work with local and national partners to harness the power of big data for the purposes of data mining, machine learning for predictive analytics, distributed intelligence, and Internet of Things. This initiative is the first of its kind in the Canadian college system, and will join Algonquin College’s six applied research centres under its Office of Partnerships, Applied Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship.

Read the full article here

The Ottawa Business Journal also covered the story – Read about it here

If you have plans in ‘Big Data’ as either an adopter or a provider, or if you could use assistance on data research, data analytics product development, testing, and commercialization, please contact:

Theo Mirtchev, Ph.D. | Project Manager | Applied Research & Innovation | Algonquin College | 613-727-4723 ext. 6080

Interested in doing ‘big data’ research with Algonquin’s Data Analytics Center?

Data Analytics ManagementThe Office of Applied Research and Innovation at Algonquin College Ottawa is proud to announce Algonquin’s new strategic research initiative, the Data Analytics Center (DAC). Building upon the College’s traditional strengths in IT and software engineering, the DAC will create new research and commercialization capacity in the ‘big data’ arena. This includes predictive analysis, machine-learning, classification, clustering, and decision support…basically ‘all things Data’. Continue reading →