Assistant Professor Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed has been named a Fulbright Centennial Fellow, one of four selected worldwide.
Jeroen Tas, chief innovation and strategy officer at Philips, visits U of T, gives Exponential Impact Lecture
Assistant Professors Sanja Fidler and Marzyeh Ghassemi are part of a discussion on how U of T researchers and counterparts in Philips can potentially pool their expertise and resources to work towards their common goal of revolutionizing health care, especially in the intersection of AI, computer science, data science and the medical space.
A&S computer scientist named NSERC/Autodesk Industrial Research Chair in Human-Computer Interaction
Medicine by Design to accelerate regenerative medicine discovery and translation with new $20-million investment
Medicine by Design is strengthening the University of Toronto as a global leader in regenerative medicine with a new investment of as much as $20 million in research that will accelerate stem cell and gene therapy, advance understanding of how the body repairs itself and generate new technologies that will propel the field for decades. One of funded research includes projects aimed at using stem cells to regenerate damaged livers, co-led by Professor Bary Bader.
U of T, Vector Institute woo rising stars in machine learning field
The University of Toronto and the affiliated Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence have announced the recruitment of two rising stars, Assistant Professors Chris Maddison (Summer 2020) and Jakob Foerster (Fall 2020) in machine learning research as part of a continued drive to assemble the best AI talent in the world.
U of T's Alán Aspuru-Guzik on self-driving laboratories that use robotics, AI to automate routine parts of experiments
BMO Financial Group’s $5-million gift will fund exploration of the creative potential of AI
U of T's Raquel Urtasun hails Toronto's AI scene in Global News profile
U of T artificial intelligence startups make big splash at Elevate tech fest
Professor Brendan Frey revealed Deep Genomics’ cutting-edge AI drug discovery platform has identified a genetic mutation linked to Wilson disease and honed in on a molecule that holds treatment potential. Also Assistant Professor Periklis Andritsos and Adjunct Professor Helen Kontozopoulos announced that AI-powered customer analytics platform ODAIA has raised $1.6 million in seed funding.
U of T researchers, entrepreneurs to showcase work at Elevate 2019 tech festival
Researchers and entrepreneurs from the University of Toronto are set to showcase their innovative work to a global audience during Elevate 2019, Canada’s largest technology and innovation festival. Professor Brendan Frey, Associate Professor Raquel Urtasun and Adjunct Professor Helen Kontozopoulos are scheduled to give a talk.
U of T's Geoffrey Hinton, pioneer in deep learning, wins 2019 Honda Prize
Geoffrey Hinton, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, chief scientific adviser at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and a vice-president and engineering fellow at Google, has been awarded the distinguished 2019 Honda Prize for his pioneering work in the field of deep learning in artificial intelligence (AI) and for his contributions to applying that technology to the broader world.
President Gertler welcomes university leaders to U of T next year to discuss ‘the power of place’
Rescuing crops, reframing history and researching MMIW: 2019 Connaught New Researcher Award winners announced
Framework stresses responsible machine learning: “Healthcare is not immune to pernicious bias”
'We have really ambitious plans': Robotics research gears up at U of T Mississauga
Computer science student shows he has the right stuff in NASA internship
There are internships. And then there are internships like the one Georges Kanaan was accepted into at NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland — an institution that played a pivotal role in putting Apollo astronauts on the moon as well as other historic missions like the New Horizons probe to Pluto, the Curiosity Mars rover and the Hubble Space Telescope.
U of T Scarborough students join forces with IBM Watson to create the first globally collaborative financial technology (FinTech) chatbot
“What is Canada’s leading city for AI? Who are the top women in FinTech in Canada? How does Ontario help start-ups export to new markets? Robust answers to these questions and more will be accessible 24/7 to anyone using our chatbot website or app anywhere in the world,” said Adjunct Professor Mario Grech, director and co-founder of DCSIL.