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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
