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Professor Raquel Urtasun, CEO of Waabi Innovations, discusses the company’s new strategy for training self-driving cars: an artificial intelligence-driven simulator.

Assistant Professor Florian Shkurti, who runs the Robot Vision and Learning lab, discusses his research on autonomous systems.

Geoffrey Hinton, University Professor Emeritus received an honorary degree from the University of Toronto in recognition of his excellence as a global pioneer in deep learning.

Professor Raquel Urtasun, one of the world’s leading experts in machine learning and computer vision, has launched Waabi, a startup that aims to leverage AI’s full potential for self-driving technology.

U of T computer science alumni Ivan Zhang, Aidan Gomez and Nick Frosst are the co-founders of an artificial intelligence startup that has big-name backers, including top researchers at Google, Apple, Uber and Nvidia.

In a matter of hours, alumnus Zain Manji co-created a free SMS-based service connecting Ontario residents to nearby vaccination clinics.

JALI Research, which grew out of research in the º£½ÇÊÓƵ of Computer Science, has developed a suite of tools that power hyper-realistic facial animations for video game characters.

Deep learning pioneer and University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton kicked off this year’s Collision technology conference, held in partnership with U of T.

Machine learning algorithms have the potential to provide huge benefits in health care, potentially providing more reliable diagnoses than human doctors in some cases.

Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik and a group of scientists and industry partners are developing a digital app that could improve the accuracy of COVID-19 contact tracing.

PhD candidate Rahul Arora received University of Toronto Libraries Graduate Student Exhibition Competition Awards with two other graduate students.

Deep Genomics, an artificial intelligence-powered drug discovery start-up co-founded by Professor Brendan Frey, recently raised $40 million in Series B funding, Betakit reports.

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.