KITCHENER, ONT., January 31, 2023 — Today, Communitech and the Vector Institute announced a new partnership to support Canadian SMEs and their ability to leverage AI as a tool for growth and [...]
January 17, 2023 By Jonathan Woods A.I. Vali’s five-year journey from idea to clinical trial for AIDREA, its AI-powered cancer detection device, required the Toronto-based startup to develop a [...]
January 9, 2023 Industry participants’ perspectives in this piece were gathered during Vector Institute’s Managing AI Risk Thought Leadership project in the fall of 2022. The [...]
By Sacha Davis January 4, 2023 Grad students learn to expect to be asked about what comes next. It often arrives in the form of “Do you have plans for a Ph.D.?,” “Have you started looking for [...]
December 15, 2022 The veteran IT leader, whose past postings have included the Perimeter Institute and Butterfield & Robinson, will be tasked with driving the computing technology strategy [...]
By Ian Gormely Two Vector papers have won top honors at the 2022 NeurIPS conference. “Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding,” co-authored by Vector [...]
By Graham Taylor The Vector Institute’s celebration of its first five-year milestone highlights the role that AI can play in the Canadian economy and society. AI is no longer considered a new [...]
November 10, 2022 The Vector Institute’s latest Ontario AI snapshot finds that Ontario’s AI ecosystem continued to strengthen in 2021-22, attracting new investment, creating and retaining [...]
By Garth Gibson Oct 26, 2022 For countries, succeeding in the knowledge-based economy is about more than education and innovation. Increasingly, it’s about securing and utilizing a nation’s [...]
By Ian Gormely October 25, 2022 Vector Faculty Member Alán Aspuru-Guzik gave a CIFAR Massey Talk on Tuesday, Oct 11, 2022. The Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Professor of Chemistry and Computer [...]
By Ian Gormely Oct 11, 2022 The Fight Tumour Team has won the first Cancer Digital Intelligence (CDI) and Vector Institute collaborative Machine Learning (ML) Challenge for Cancer Image [...]
Oct 12, 2022 Vector AI Engineering blogs offer insights into applied machine learning and engineering work happening in the AI Engineering team. They are written by AI Engineering staff in [...]
By Jonathan Woods October 11, 2022 An exciting future for AI in healthcare is coming into focus. In Ontario hospitals, AI has already been used to predict emergency room admissions, automate [...]
Sept 19, 2022 Graham Taylor has been named Research Director at the Vector Institute. Taylor, who is also a Vector Faculty Member and Canada CIFAR AI Chair, previously held the position on an [...]
By Jonathan Woods Sept 7, 2022 Understanding and mitigating bias is a vital issue in applying AI systems, particularly for businesses. It’s also a complex topic. It not only demands proficiency [...]
The code is open-source and available for download August 25, 2022 The Acceleration Consortium (AC), the Matter Lab, and the Vector Institute have teamed up to develop Gryffin—an “off-the-shelf” [...]
By Jonathan Woods August 24, 2022 Vector’s Industry Innovation team has released the Computer Vision: Applications in Manufacturing, Surgery, Traffic, Satellites, and Unlabelled Data Recognition [...]
By Catherine Glossop August 23, 2022 Robots are increasingly prevalent in our everyday lives as they take to the roads in the form of self-driving vehicles, assist in operations in our hospitals, [...]
AI’s growing adoption in business brings with it a requirement to ensure that deployed models are reliable and safe for end users. This is the domain of Trustworthy AI, a research topic and set [...]
By Jonathan Woods July 21, 2022 The inaugural cohort of Mothers & Machine Learning (M&ML) ― a professional development program tailored to serve mothers on maternity leave and stay-at [...]
By Ian Gormely Jeff Clune doesn’t talk like your average machine learning researcher. Where many AI scientists will happily chat about model optimization or robustness, talking to Clune about [...]
June 23, 2022 Vector research blogs offer short, non-technical explanations of the ground-breaking research happening within the Vector research community. They are written by Vector Institute [...]
June 21, 2022 24 industry leading companies each extend their partnership with the Vector Institute an additional five years to 2027 injecting approximately $ 40 Million directly into the AI [...]
Jonathan Woods June 8, 2022 In a tight talent market, GoldSpot has succeeded at attracting some of Canada’s top young AI practitioners and building a team that keeps its R&D pipeline brimming [...]
By Jonathan Woods June 2, 2022 A new computer vision framework accurately determines zebra and quagga mussel coverage, abundance, and biomass in underwater imagery. The framework has the [...]
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 & [...]
May 26, 2022 Vector’s Industry Innovation team has released the Computer Vision: Applications in Manufacturing, Surgery, Traffic, Satellites, and Unlabelled Data Recognition Technical Report. It [...]
May 25, 2022 The Vector Institute, an independent, not-for-profit corporation driving research excellence and leadership in artificial intelligence (AI), today announced a five-year strategic [...]
By Ian Gormely May 19, 2022 Two papers co-authored by Vector researchers were recognized with awards at this year’s International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). Vector Faculty [...]
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 [...]
