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Scaling AI: How Accenture bridges research and business to create...
April 2, 2020 AI is “the future of growth” according to a recent Accenture research report, AI: Built to Scale. That report, based on a survey of 1500 C-suite executives at companies across 16...
View ArticleHow Thomson Reuters uses NLP to enable knowledge workers to make faster and...
April 2, 2020 Hidden Injustice, a recent investigative report by Reuters, revealed how federal civil court rulings obscured the role that pharmaceutical companies played in the rising opioid epidemic....
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How Wahi Built a Revenue-driving Realtor Recommendation Engine with Vector...
Putting more control in the hands of real estate buyers and sellers by giving them better information: that’s the goal of Toronto-based Wahi, a digital real estate platform. “The problem users had...
View ArticleCongratulations to TD’s Layer 6 on Winning Spotify RecSys Challenge 2018
On behalf of the Vector Institute, I am delighted to extend our sincere congratulations to TD’s Layer 6 on winning the prestigious Recsys challenge for the second year in a row, making them the first...
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2018 Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School
It’s no longer summer here in Canada, but we still can’t stop talking about the 2018 Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School! This past July, the Vector Institute partnered with...
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Vector Institute Grows Faculty Across Canada
The Vector Institute is pleased to announce five new Vector Faculty Members, expanding Vector’s faculty to include researchers cross-appointed at Canadian universities and institutions all the way from...
View ArticleVector Researchers Win Top Honours at NeurIPS 2018
Vector Faculty Members and students collaborated and won two of four Best Paper awards and a Best Student Paper Award at NeurIPS 2018, the most important machine learning conference in the world....
View ArticleVECTOR INSTITUTE WELCOMES NEW POSTGRADUATE AFFILIATES TO ITS GROWING RESEARCH...
March 25, 2019 The Vector Institute congratulates the newest members of its research community on being accepted into the 2019 Vector Institute Postgraduate Affiliate Program. Established in 2018, the...
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Researchers and professionals from coast to coast descend on Vector for first...
On Friday, February 22, 2019, the Vector Institute held its first-ever Research Symposium and Job Fair – one of the largest gatherings of machine learning talent across Canada. The one-day event...
View ArticleVector Institute Announces Second Cohort of Vector Scholarship in AI Recipients
700+ AI master’s students starting programs in 2019 are expected to graduate and enter Ontario’s workforce by 2021 The Vector Institute is pleased to announce that the 2019-20 Vector Scholarship in...
View ArticleVector Faculty Affiliate wins top honours at CVPR 2019
Vector Faculty Affiliate Kyros Kutulakos has won the Best Paper Award at CVPR 2019. Kutulakos, along with his co-authors Shumian Xin, Sotiris Nousias, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Srinivasa G....
View ArticleVector’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, wins the Honda Prize...
Today, the Vector Institute congratulates our very own Chief Scientific Advisor, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, for winning the Honda Prize 2019 for his pioneering research in the field of deep learning in...
View ArticleVector Institute Names 29 New Faculty Affiliates
On October 16, 2019 the Vector Institute announced that 29 faculty holding appointments at universities across Ontario have been appointed as Faculty Affiliates at the Vector Institute. Researchers...
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AI community celebrates Dr. Geoffrey Hinton at Evolution of Deep Learning...
Geoffrey Hinton delivered his Turing Lecture to a crowd of researchers and professionals at the Vector Institute’s Evolution of Deep Learning Symposium on October 16th. International AI talent...
View ArticleMachine learning platform helps enable early diagnosis of life-threatening...
Vector Institute and Ontario Tech University supporting two hospitals in predictive analytics to detect sepsis in infants through machine learning Toronto – Today, the Vector Institute, an...
View ArticleCoronavirus research breakthrough has Toronto roots
Photo by CDC on Unsplash A recent breakthrough in the global search for a vaccine to the coronavirus has roots in Toronto. On February 15th, a team of researchers from the University of Texas at...
View ArticleVector Bronze Sponsor Surgical Safety Technologies lands on Time magazine’s...
Time has included Surgical Safety Technologies’ OR Black Box on its list of the Best Inventions of 2019. Modelled after an airplane’s black box, the device monitors surgeries by recording audio,...
View ArticleVector Institute welcomes new 2020 postgraduate affiliates
Vector Institute is proud to announce the 2020 candidates for the Vector Institute Postgraduate Affiliate Program. This year’s cohort adds 22 talented researchers to Vector’s ever-growing research...
View ArticleROXANA SULTAN, VP, HEALTH
Vector Welcomes Roxana Sultan as VP, Health April 20, 2020 Vector Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Roxana Sultan to the role of Vice President, Health Roxana will lead Vector’s...
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Vector Scholarship in AI Announcement
Vector Institute Announces Third Round of Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence Recipients The Vector Institute is pleased to congratulate the third round of Vector Scholarship in Artificial...
View ArticleVECTOR RESEARCHER BO WANG DEVELOPS TOOL TO TRACK GENETIC EVOLUTION OF COVID-19
By Ian Gormely A group of researchers, including Vector Faculty Member Bo Wang, have developed the COVID-19 Genotyping Tool (CGT), which tracks the viral genome evolution of the current COVID-19...
View ArticleVECTOR RESEARCHERS PRESENT “FIRST OF ITS KIND” AI-POWERED SEARCH ENGINE FOR...
By Ian Gormely The ability to build and train neural networks remains out of reach for many individuals and organizations because of the large amount of data, time and compute power needed to train...
View ArticleVector researchers co-lead first ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and...
ACM CHIL is the brainchild of Vector faculty member Marzyeh Ghassemi. The inaugural ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) kicks off Thursday, July 23rd, 2020. Originally scheduled to...
View ArticleVector researchers take leadership role at Conference on Uncertainty in AI
The 2020 edition of the Conference on Uncertainty in AI (UAI) was held last week, bringing together academic and industrial researchers and students from a host of fields including statistics, data...
View ArticleResearchers and startups converge in Toronto AI ecosystem
Vector Faculty Member and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Graham Taylor is Next AI’s Academic Director By Ian Gormely October 19, 2020 Jennifer Arnold had enjoyed a successful two decade run in the financial and...
View ArticleVector Scholarship in AI winner recognized for bringing AI to cancer analysis
December 11, 2020 As an undergraduate, Vector scholarship recipient Rachel Theriault brought AI and analytical chemistry together to investigate breast cancer. Her early work has gained recognition....
View ArticleVector welcomes 2020 cohort of Faculty Affiliates
December 22, 2020 Vector Institute is pleased to announce that 72 faculty holding appointments at universities across Ontario have been appointed as 2020 Faculty Affiliates. The 2020 cohort is a...
View ArticleVector Institute Releases First Annual Ontario AI Snapshot
January 28, 2021 Today, the Vector Institute released its first annual Ontario AI Snapshot, published in partnership with Deloitte Canada, based on market research that included a survey of executives...
View ArticleVector welcomes new researchers to Postgraduate Affiliate program
March 31, 2021 By Ian Gormely The Vector Institute is proud to announce the 2021 candidates for its Postgraduate Affiliate Program. The new cohort of 30 talented researchers is a combination of new and...
View ArticleMachine learning model from Vector researchers creates 3D environments...
July 2, 2021 By Ian Gormely A new machine learning model from Vector Institute and Apple researchers can create 3D environments without any reference images. Generative scene networks (GSN) are built...
View ArticleVector Faculty Member Toni Pitassi is the recipient of the 2021 EATCS Award
By Ian Gormely August 12, 2021 “I can’t think of someone more deserving of the EATCS Award than Toni Pitassi. Beyond her incalculable contributions to fundamental computer science, Toni’s compassion...
View ArticleMachine learning model creates treatment plans for patients with prostate cancer
By Ian Gormely August 30, 2021 A new machine learning model can create radiation therapy treatment plans for patients with prostate cancer. The model, which produces plans deemed as good or better...
View ArticleQuantum tech startup yiyaniQ is Vector’s first spin-out company
Nov 22, 2021 By Ian Gormely A start-up cofounded by Vector Institute postgraduate affiliate Estelle Inack is the first company to be spun-out from Vector. yiyaniQ, uses a neural network to get faster...
View ArticleAI-enabled tool that identifies COVID-19 variants co-developed by Vector...
Researchers have developed an AI-enabled genotyping tool that can analyze viral genome data from a nasal swab. Notably, it can be used to determine different variants of concern (VOC) of COVID-19. The...
View ArticleVector’s Shingai Manjengwa named one of Ryerson DMZ’s Women of the Year
By Ian Gormely March 23, 2022 Shingai Manjengwa, Vector’s director of professional development, has been named one of Ryerson DMZ’s inaugural Women of the Year, a list of 46 women chosen for their...
View ArticleStudents win award at inaugural Introduction to Machine Learning course for...
By Ian Gormely April 26, 2022 As part of Vector Institute’s inaugural Introduction to Machine Learning (ML) for Black and Indigenous students, four Canadian post-secondary students were awarded Best...
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Vector awards nearly $2 million in scholarships to top master’s students...
110 students will receive $17,500 merit-based scholarships from Vector for 2022-23 academic year The scholarship helps ensure the growth of top AI talent in the province Over 1,000 students have...
View ArticleCIBC Analytics Day Recap: Understanding and Operationalizing Trustworthy AI
By Jonathan Woods June 1, 2022 Trustworthy AI is an evolving, but crucial topic for organizations using AI today. On May 29, CIBC hosted a fireside chat called AI Research: Trustworthy AI & MLOps...
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Vector workshops give insights into responsible health AI deployment
Trustworthy and safe health AI deployment recognizes urgency, addresses a specific need, and delivers genuine value to users. This was the consensus at the Principles to Practice: Enabling Responsible...
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How Vector is helping Evolving Intelligence build a groundbreaking fintech...
Canadian fintech startup Evolving Intelligence recently launched a groundbreaking AI-powered private wealth management platform designed to track wealth transfer risks, provide up-to-date insights on...
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From Vector Institute Internship to Dream Job: A Success Story in Machine...
As Justin Yang was completing his master’s program he realized he was missing one thing: practical experience. To fill this gap, he turned to Vector’s Applied AI Internship Program to gain the...
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