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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 ArticleTick Identification to Combat Lyme Disease
Photo credit: Jim Gathany By Ian Gormely Toronto – Today, the Vector Institute, an independent, not-for-profit research institute focused on leading-edge machine learning, announced the third of its...
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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