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110 étudiants recevront une bourse fondée sur le mérite de 17 500 $ de l’Institut Vector pour l’année scolaire 2022-23 Cette bourse contribuera à attirer les meilleurs talents en intelligence [...]

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 [...]

April 28, 2022 Today’s 2022 Ontario Budget includes nearly $107 million over the next three years in new critical technology initiatives to support access to and the commercialization of these [...]

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 [...]

April 20, 2022 Today, the Vector Institute introduced its Smart Health initiative to ensure Ontarians benefit from the province’s world-class research in health and machine learning. Smart Health [...]

By Jonathan Woods April 18, 2022 New technologies are “forcing CEOs to raise the ceiling on their climate ambitions,” reads Climate Leadership in the Eleventh Hour, a study recently released by [...]

By Ian Gormely April 13, 2022 The Vector Institute once again held its annual Research Symposium, showcasing the latest leading-edge research coming out of the Vector community. The annual event [...]

By Jonathan Woods March 29, 2022 This article is a part of our Trustworthy AI series. As a part of this series, we will be releasing an article per week around Interpretability Fairness [...]

Burlington, ON, March 28, 2022 – Today, Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd., a leading research-driven biopharmaceutical company, announced a new five-year strategic partnership with the [...]

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 [...]

By Jonathan Woods March 21, 2022 This article is a part of our Trustworthy AI series. As a part of this series, we will be releasing an article per week around Interpretability Fairness [...]

By Jonathan Woods March 15, 2022 Lift the hood on the transportation industry, and you’ll find a rush of AI research and deployment underway. Spurred by potential efficiencies and customer [...]

By Jonathan Woods March 14, 2022 This article is a part of our Trustworthy AI series. As a part of this series, we will be releasing an article per week around Interpretability Fairness [...]

By Ian Gormely March 3, 2022 A new startup co-founded by Vector researcher James Elder aims to bring a curated, professional-level viewing experience to amateur hockey. AttentiveVision uses [...]

AI reveals long COVID symptoms through Twitter analysis of nearly half a million first-hand tweets  Over 100 symptoms identified. The most frequent symptoms include fatigue, pain, brain fog, [...]

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 [...]

December 16, 2021 From fundamental research breakthroughs to helping Ontario businesses deploy AI into their organizations, Vector had a very busy year. The 21 stories below offer a brief, but [...]

Dec 9, 2021 By Ian Gormely Hannah Szentimrey grew up on a farm, but she didn’t want to be a farmer. Yet even after achieving a graduate degree in computer engineering, she felt pulled back to the [...]

Dec 7, 2021 By Jonathan Woods  On December 2nd, Vector hosted Accelerating AI-fueled growth for Ontario’s fast-growing companies, an event marking the launch of Vector’s new FastLane program, [...]

Dec 1, 2021 By Ian Gormely Using AI to work towards better whole-life health is one of the four pillars of Vector’s Three Year Strategic Plan. One notable paper from Vector Faculty Members Quaid [...]

Nov 30, 2021 By Ian Gormely Vector researchers are once again preparing for a virtual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). This year’s conference runs December 6 through [...]

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 [...]

October 21, 2021 Tailored to the unique needs of Canada’s growth-oriented small-and-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), the Vector Institute has launched the FastLane program to deliver [...]

October 21, 2021 Vector Institute’s latest Ontario AI snapshot finds that Ontario’s AI ecosystem continued to grow in size and strength in 2020-21, responding nimbly and effectively to the [...]

By Ian Gormely October 19, 2021 Vector Institute staff and researchers are helping facilitate greater collaboration between banks or hospitals with a new system that allows institutions to [...]

By Ian Gormely October 5, 2021 Applying machine learning (ML) techniques to data from the Ontario Health Data Platform (OHDP), Vector Faculty Member Bo Wang helped determine a set of mortality [...]

By Ian Gormely September 29, 2021 Vector researchers are applying machine learning techniques to build better quantum computers, which use qubits instead of bits. Quantum computers are generally [...]

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 [...]

August 17, 2021 By Jonathan Woods Past performance doesn’t guarantee future results, so the axiom goes. In an AI context, nothing embodies this notion more than dataset shift. It’s a crucial, yet [...]

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 [...]

By Jonathan Woods August 11, 2021 Vector’s Industry Innovation team has released the Dataset Shift and Potential Remedies Technical Report, which details experiments and insights gained in the [...]

July 29, 2021 The Vector Institute is pleased to announce that Platinum industry sponsor NVIDIA has renewed support through 2027. One of Vector’s founding sponsors, NVIDIA has participated in [...]

July 14, 2021 By Ian Gormely The 2021 edition of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), held virtually from July 18 to 24, will once again bring together the machine learning [...]

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 [...]

By Ian Gormely June 14, 2021 Vector researchers are once again preparing for a busy Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, which will be held virtually from June 19 to 25. The [...]

June 4, 2021 Wenhu Chen is the latest Faculty Member to join the Vector Institute, a co-hire with the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo where Chen will work as an [...]

Jonathan Woods May 25, 2021 There’s a skill that teams at Scotiabank prize when recruiting top new graduates for AI-related co-ops and jobs. It’s one required to thrive in a bank that calls on [...]

May 10, 2021 Today, the Vector Institute announced the winners of the 2021-22 Vector Institute Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence (VSAI), 109 individuals who will join Ontario’s growing pool [...]

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’ [...]