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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 [...]

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 [...]

L’APPRENTISSAGE AUTOMATIQUE EST DÉPLOYÉ À L’HÔPITAL ST. MICHAEL AFIN D’ÉMETTRE DES ALERTES PRÉCOCES POUR LES PATIENTS SUSCEPTIBLES D’ÊTRE TRANSFÉRÉS À L’UNITÉ DE SOINS INTENSIFS Toronto – [...]

Par Ian Gormely L’intelligence artificielle, tout particulièrement les domaines de l’apprentissage automatique et de l’apprentissage profond, bouleverse à peu près tous les secteurs d’activité [...]

By Ian Gormely Artificial intelligence, particularly the fields of machine learning and deep learning, are disrupting nearly every sector imaginable—even the world of art. Still, many artists are [...]

Machine learning being deployed at St. Michael’s Hospital to provide early warning for patients at risk of transfer to intensive care unit (ICU) Toronto – Today, the Vector Institute, an [...]

Le 1er février 2018 L’Institut Vecteur tient à féliciter les membres de la première cohorte de son Programme de stagiaires diplômés. Ce programme lancé cette année se veut un catalyseur de [...]

  Le vendredi 22 février 2019, l’Institut Vecteur organisait son tout premier colloque de recherche et salon de l’emploi, l’un des plus grands rassemblements d’experts du domaine de [...]

  Today, Vector’s very own Chief Scientific Advisor, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, received computer science’s top distinction, the ACM A.M. Turing Award, for his foundational research in deep [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

Vector Faculty Member, Frank Rudzicz, calls language a “lens into one’s cognition” because how and what we say can reveal a lot about how we feel, and how we think. In research recently published [...]

The Vector Institute will award up to 115 scholarships to meritorious students who pursue a full-time AI-related master’s degree in the 2019-20 academic year. Scholarships will be awarded [...]

Canada was the first country to have a national AI strategy. The good news is that it has been a great success. The benefits have been realized sooner and to a greater extent than was [...]

(Photo credit: Mike Hagarty, Canadian Club- Toronto) The Vector Institute is pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of the Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence. These awards [...]

Photo: Left to Right – Will Grathwohl, Jesse Bettencourt, Yulia Rubanova and Ricky Chen (Absent – David Duvenaud)   Vector Faculty Members and students collaborated and won two [...]

Photo credit: Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)

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 [...]

   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 [...]