Capstone design projects
Upper-year engineering students work on your applied AI problem for a semester, with faculty supervision.
One relationship with all of UofT Engineering.
LG Electronics, Sunnybrook, ModiFace and other Toronto organizations have brought problems to Carte. We match each one to faculty and students, and help fund the work through NSERC Alliance and Mitacs.
Four ways to work with us.
| Engagement | You get | Time | How it's paid for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mitacs Accelerate → | A UofT intern on your problem, with academic supervision | 4–6 months per internship, repeatable | From $7,500 CAD per internship, matched by Mitacs |
| Sponsored research → | Faculty and students working on your applied AI problem | Scoped with you, up to multi-year | Your funding, often leveraged through NSERC Alliance or Mitacs |
| Corporate training → | Training built around your teams | Half a day to five days | Scoped and quoted for your organization |
| AI consulting & guidance | Help scoping, judging feasibility, building and deploying a model | Scoped with you | Scoped and quoted for your organization |
Problems partners brought us.
LG Electronics Toronto AI Lab
When a small language model is uncertain, a few lightweight agents deliberate before the query is passed to a larger model.
ACL 2026 Industry Track
ModiFace
A diffusion model that removes hair from portraits taken in ordinary conditions while preserving face, identity and background.
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) · 2026
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
A prognostic model that updates as the patient's health record grows, combining lab results, imaging, physician notes and weight.
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) · 2026
Lorex Technology
Finds unusual events in surveillance video from video-level labels only, and cuts the computing cost enough to run on the hardware inside a camera system.
IEEE Access · 2026
Nexxt Intelligence
Scores open-ended survey responses automatically and explains its scores, without needing reference answers.
EMNLP 2025 Industry Track
Mitacs Accelerate
Mitacs matches your contribution so a UofT student can work on your research problem for four to six months.
How it works for partners
Mitacs Accelerate pairs your organization with a UofT student and an academic supervisor. You contribute starting at $7,500 CAD per four- or six-month internship, and Mitacs matches it to create a $15,000 CAD research award.
Benefits for your organization
- Government matching doubles what your contribution buys
- Work with highly skilled graduate students, postdocs, and recent graduates
- Tackle specific problems with dedicated student researchers
- Identify potential hires through direct collaboration
How Carte helps
- We help you identify and match with qualified students
- We provide direct academic supervision
- We assist with application drafting and submission to ensure all requirements are met
- We support you through the entire process, from project scoping to completion
Funding model
Postdoc model
Per 4- or 6-month internship
Your contribution
$7,500 CAD
+
Mitacs match
$7,500 CAD
=
Total research award
$15,000 CAD
($10,000+ to intern)
Internships are repeatable: For example, 3 four-month internships = one full year of research with sponsored funding
Eligible organizations: for-profit corporations, not-for-profit corporations, hospitals, municipalities and Indigenous governments in Canada. For-profit partners contribute private-sector funds; projects with other partners must show an economic or productivity focus. Organizations outside Canada can join a project that has a Canadian partner.
Other ways to work with us.
More ways to connect with Carte and the UofT engineering community.
Your first email can be short.
- Your organization, department or program
- The problem or opportunity, in a sentence or two
- Your timeline, even if it's rough
- Whether you have funding in place or want help finding it