Join us for a special celebration commemorating the U of T Department of Computer Science’s 60th anniversary and reunite with alumni, friends, faculty and staff.
Featuring engaging talks by some of our newest faculty members, including Professors Rahul G. Krishnan, Aviad Levis and Carolina Nobre, and a lively dinner reception, we’ll set the stage for another 60 years of computer science innovation and excellence. The department has long been at the forefront of technological advancements, contributing significantly to the field of computer science and producing distinguished graduates who have gone on to make a positive global impact.
Secure your free ticket(s) today and be part of an unforgettable celebration! Join us as we honour 60 years of groundbreaking achievements, celebrate our legacy and spark future innovations.
Register to attend the talks, the reception or both. Get your tickets now to avoid disappointment.
Locations and Schedule
University College Room UC140
University College, 15 King’s College Circle, Toronto
5:00 p.m. – Doors open
5:30 p.m. – Faculty talks
The Great Hall at Hart House
7 Hart House Circle, Toronto
6:30 p.m. – Registration
7:00 p.m. – Reception
10:00 p.m. – Celebration concludes
Featured Speakers:
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This talk will highlight the last few decades of AI, ML and computing, where it’s going, and how the field of computing should leverage such intelligence to solve some of the hardest problems facing our planet.
Biography:
Rahul G. Krishnan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Medicine (Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology), where he holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Computational Medicine. He is also a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute. He works on deep learning, causal inference and machine learning in healthcare. He received his MS from New York University and his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2020.
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This talk will cover how a summer program teaching data visualization provided Afghan girls with tools to explore and understand their own communities through a new lens. The presentation will highlight the hands-on approaches used to help students create their first visualizations, revealing how interactive exploration of data sparked curiosity and new perspectives, and demonstrating how computer science education can serve as a gateway to personal discovery even in challenging educational contexts.
Biography:
Carolina Nobre is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the Computer Science Department. Her research area is Data Visualization, with her current research projects focusing on creating user adaptive interactive data visualizations.
Before joining the University of Toronto, Nobre was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Hanspeter Pfister's Visual Computing Group at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. She received her PhD with Alex Lex at the Visualization Design Lab at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and the School of Computing at the University of Utah. Nobre has a master’s degree in software engineering from the Harvard Extension School, as well as a previous life as an oceanographer studying the Arctic Ocean and its effect on our planet.
Nobre is the recipient of the Harvard Data Science Initiative Fellowship, as well as a 2020 Wojcicki Troper Fellow. She also received a VGTC Outstanding Dissertation Honorable Mention for her PhD Dissertation on Visualizing Multivariate Networks.
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Black holes are among the most mysterious objects in the universe, where our everyday perception of space and time breaks down completely. Near a black hole, light itself can be trapped by an invisible boundary called the event horizon — a point of no return. But if nothing, not even light, can escape, how can we possibly take a picture of one? And what does this extraordinary challenge have to do with the algorithms inside your smartphone camera? In this talk, we'll embark on a journey from the everyday technology in our pockets to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy — and the groundbreaking efforts of over 300 scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, united by a common goal: to see the unseen.
Biography:Aviad Levis is an assistant professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. He is an affiliated faculty member at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics. His research focuses on scientific computational imaging and artificial intelligence for science. Aviad is an active member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, working on imaging black holes. Previously, he was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), supported by the Zuckerman and Viterbi Postdoctoral Fellowships. He obtained his Ph.D. (2020) from the Technion and his B.Sc. (2013) from Ben-Gurion University.