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The Vector Institute welcomes commitments in the 2021 federal budget to renew the CIFAR Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy, with a $443.8 million commitment over 10 years starting in [...]

April 23, 2021 By Ian Gormely Members of Vector’s research community are readying themselves for the 2021 edition of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), one of the [...]

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 [...]

March 26, 2021 By Ian Gormely The Vector Institute’s annual Research Symposium was held in February, a two-day event showcasing the latest cutting-edge work coming out of the Vector research [...]

February 26, 2021 Vector researchers are busy readying themselves for the 2021 edition of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), which kicks off March 3 and [...]

Designed for small-to-medium-sized businesses, the new “Bias in AI” program aims to deliver technical skills for reducing implicit and explicit bias in Natural Language Processing & Computer [...]

And may have just innovated its way to major new energy savings February 17, 2021 By Jonathan Woods Everything in this small, nondescript datacentre comes in singles. There’s one server, one [...]

February 8, 2021 By Jonathan Woods “Vivek Goel has dedicated his career to the improvement of Canadians’ lives. He’s renowned for his relentless focus on the betterment of our community, [...]

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 [...]

January 19, 2020 Alors qu’elle était étudiante au baccalauréat, Rachel Theriault, lauréate d’une bourse d’études de l’Institut Vecteur, a combiné l’IA et la chimie analytique pour étudier le [...]

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 [...]

December 21, 2020 This year’s TMLS Annual Conference & Expo featured real-life experiences from the global machine learning community, including several presenters from the Vector [...]

December 16, 2020 Developing and employing natural language processing (NLP) models in industry has become progressively more challenging as model complexity increases, data sets grow in size, [...]

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 [...]

November 30, 2020 Vector Institute extends its sincere condolences to the family and colleagues of Pearl Sullivan, the former Dean of the University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering from 2012 [...]

By Ian Gormely November 27, 2020 Vector researchers are once again preparing for the premier machine learning conference, the 34th annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems [...]

Nov 18, 2020, 10:31 ET Roche partners with AI leaders Amii, Mila and the Vector Institute to drive digital transformation in health MISSISSAUGA, ON, Nov. 18, 2020 /CNW/ – Hoffmann-La Roche [...]

Par Ian Gormely 19 octobre 2020 Jennifer Arnold avait connu deux décennies de succès dans les secteurs de la finance et du divertissement lorsqu’elle a choisi de tracer sa propre voie. En 2018, [...]

Photo by Shahadat Rahman on Unsplash November 10, 2020 By Jonathan Woods In early 2020, Manulife data scientists from across the globe attended the firm’s first NLP Academy. That Academy ― a [...]

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 [...]

Vector Institute Establishes New AI Engineering Team to Ramp up Applied AI for Sponsors and Partners August 26, 2020 The Vector Institute is establishing an AI engineering team, comprising [...]

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash August 12, 2020 Unlike startups and tech giants with AI-first strategies, most companies don’t have AI labs and teams singularly dedicated to finding 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, [...]

Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash August 10, 2020 By Ian Gormely From music discovery to finance, we interact with AI every day, often without even knowing it. Yet, as algorithms are considered [...]

With a big vision, Toronto founders can attract AI talent from Silicon Valley  Insights from Radical Ventures & Vector Institute  July 30, 2020 Recent uncertainty surrounding H1-B and work [...]

By Ian Gormely   “The internet never forgets,” was once thought to be a foundational truism of life online. But a spate of legal rulings have challenged that notion, and the ability to erase [...]

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 [...]

This year’s edition of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) will be a virtual one, running Sunday, July 13th through Saturday, July 18th.  ICML is one of the world’s [...]

Vector Faculty Member Marzyeh Ghassemi leads a team that is among those receiving COVID-19 research funding through the Canadian Institutes for Health Reserach’s Rapid Research Response [...]

Read the full strategy June 18, 2020 Update from President & CEO Garth Gibson: I’m excited to announce the Vector Institute’s new three-year strategy. This strategy will guide our continuing [...]

Vector Institute Three Year Strategic Plan

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 [...]

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 [...]

June 17, 2020 A simple maxim guides how the BMO AI Capabilities Team works: increased model performance is related directly to increased revenue and decreased costs and enhancing customers’ [...]

June 4, 2020 Statement from President & CEO Garth Gibson To the Vector community and our colleagues around the world: I have had occasion to speak with several of you about the unjust killing [...]

Vector researcher Alán Aspuru-Guzik launches world’s first “self-driving lab” for the discovery of thin-film materials.

Eleven U of T Engineering grad students receive Vector Institute Scholarships in AI

Vector researcher Sanja Fidler part of team behind Nvidia’s GameGAN, which generates games like Pac-Man by watching videos

Experts, including Vector researcher Frank Rudzicz, detail how COVID-19 will reshape our world

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 [...]

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 [...]

April 12, 2020 Statement from Garth Gibson, President & CEO, Vector Institute “The ability of machine learning tools to identify patterns and make accurate predictions based on large [...]

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 [...]

Despite the volume of articles about the potential for AI to improve patient outcomes and health care operations, finding information about how to responsibly deploy machine learning models in [...]

03/19/2020 Good morning Vector, It is hard to have perspective these days. With the coronavirus threat everywhere, filling every news source on the TV, radio, newspaper, and twitter feed with [...]

Following the recent White House call to action to the tech community to develop techniques that can answer scientific questions related to COVID-19, a team of Vector researchers have released a [...]

By Ian Gormely Data is the fuel that makes AI algorithms work. But good, usable data is not always easy to come by. It’s a problem that Vector Faculty Member Bo Wang knows all too well.  In [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Vector Faculty Member David Duvenaud and collaborators have published a new paper, “Scalable Gradients for Stochastic Differential Equations,” in Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. The paper [...]

Photo by Ben Hershey Once viewed as a short-term injury, today concussions are understood as a chronic health issue. They can leave individuals with long-lasting effects on the brain’s electrical [...]

From L-R: Vector Faculty Member Toniann Pitassi, Vector Interns Irene Kameni, Kobby Panford-Quainoo, Fadel Thior, Ines Birimahire, Aisha Alaagib, and Vector Graduate student Elliot Creager By Ian [...]

Photo by Ousa Chea on Unsplash Vector Faculty Member Marzyeh Ghassemi recently contributed to a Viewpoint article for JAMA online: Challenges to the Reproducibility of Machine Learning Models in [...]

Photo: Will Grathwohl (far left) with fellow Vector Institute researchers Jesse Bettencourt, Yulia Rubanova, and Ricky Chen. By Ian Gormely Artificial intelligence is a transformative technology. [...]

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 [...]

International AI talent gathered in Toronto last week to share perspectives on how research and applications are evolving, and how researchers can continue momentum in the field based on historic [...]

Vector researchers are preparing for the world’s premier machine learning conference, the 33rd annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). A multi-track machine learning [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Vector’s Second Pathfinder Project to Enhance Radiology with AI Toronto – Today, the Vector Institute, an independent, not-for-profit research institute focused on leading-edge machine learning, [...]

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 [...]