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 [...]
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 [...]
The 2018-2019 Machine Learning Advances and Applications Seminar schedule is now posted. The Fields Institute invites international speakers, academic faculty and industry, to present on a [...]
[Image: Sanja Fidler, Computer Science Prof. at UofT and Vector Institute Faculty, speaking at the celebration of NVIDIA’s recently announced new AI research lab in Toronto.] On Friday, [...]
[Vector Faculty Affiliates, Sue Becker, John F. Connolly, Jim Reilly and Flavio Kapcinscki (Non-Vector), recently hosted a symposium at McMaster University on the topic of Machine Learning for [...]
September 13, 2018 This morning the CEO of Uber, Dara Khrosrowshahi, visited the MaRS Discovery District, which is also home to the Vector Institute, on his inaugural visit to Canada. Dara [...]
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 [...]
April 23, 2018 In a week, Vector faculty and researchers will head to International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) to showcase their latest research. Here is the full list of their [...]
Alán Aspuru-Guzik has spent the last twelve years as a Professor at Harvard University, where his research group has been working at the intersection of computer science, chemistry and physics. [...]
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Vector Institute. But what we’re really celebrating is the continuing growth of the Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem. When Vector [...]
Dr. Amir-massoud Farahmand’s career in reinforcement learning has led him across Canada to work with some of the world’s top researchers in the field in Edmonton and Montreal. Now, after [...]
February 1, 2018 The Vector Institute congratulates all members of the inaugural cohort of the Vector Institute Postgraduate Affiliate Program. Established this year, the program will foster [...]
TORONTO October 31, 2017 – The Vector Institute today announced that ten new faculty members will join its team of leading researchers in machine learning, deep learning and artificial [...]
Computer science leader returns to Canada to lead new artificial intelligence (AI) institute. A Canadian, Dr. Garth Gibson brings strong scientific and commercial experience to drive Canada’s [...]
Quote by Ed Clark “The Vector Institute is thrilled by the opportunity to work with the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and the University Health Network. This partnership, enabled by the remarkable [...]
NEW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LAUNCHED IN TORONTO TO ANCHOR CANADA AS A GLOBAL ECONOMIC SUPERCLUSTER Vector Institute Aims to Produce World’s Largest Number of Deep Learning AI [...]
