Payment Evolution

Dr. Raj Singh and his students* collaborated with software engineers at PaymentEvolution (a software company based out of Toronto) to develop a digital assistant that simplifies employment standards compliance for Canadian small businesses with the use of transparent and explainable AI.

With the click of a few buttons, the assistant figures out compliant pay amounts (say, for termination) and also generates a plain language report that explains why the amount is what it is. This is helpful in case there are disputes or audits.

This work was funded by the Ontario Centre of Innovation C2C program. The C2C (Collaborate 2 Commercialize) program supports the “collaboration between Academia and Industry to solve an industry-based problem and drive the commercialization of Intellectual Property” - OCI

*Many Cognitive Science graduate students have worked on this project, but for this specific tool one student stands out — Katie Van Luven.