President Meric Gertler is inviting the U of T community to join a national moment of silence on Jan. 15 in memory of those who died in the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 in Iran last week.

Professors Sheila McIlraith, Toniann Pitassi, Associate Professor Anna Goldenberg, Assistant Professors Jakob Foerster, Animesh Garg, Chris Maddison, and Gennady Pekhimenko have been named CIFAR AI Chairs.

Professor Gary Bader and Assistant Professor Hannes Röst received US$150,000 each to create a cloud-based Cytoscape and Open MS from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, co-founded by Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and his spouse, Priscilla Chan.

Deep Genomics, the genetic medicine startup founded by Professor Brendan Frey, was one of five Canadian companies that cracked the 2019 CNBC Upstart 100 list unveiled on Tuesday, a ranking of the world's most promising startups.

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.

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.

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.

To accelerate progress in labs all over the world, Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik wants researchers to embrace laboratories that can make smart decisions all on their own.

The BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies and AI will stage high-profile events, explore new ways for the arts to embrace cutting-edge technology and train the next generation of tech-savvy leaders

Associate Professor Raquel Urtasun envisions the city becoming a world leader in AI thanks in large part to the research and talent at U of T.

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.

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.

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.

To illustrate the mutually beneficial relationship between university and city, President Gertler recounted how Associate Professor Raquel Urtasun, a world renowned expert in machine perception and artificial intelligence, persuaded Uber to open a self-driving vehicle research lab in Toronto.

Congratulations to Assistant Professors Maryam Mehri Dehnavi, Murat Erdogdu, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Tovi Grossman, Fan Long and Joseph Jay Williams for receiving this year's Connaught New Researcher Award!