Santoshi headshot
Internships

A change agent for AI workforce transformation: my time as a Vector Institute AI project management intern 

Man typing on laptop
Generative AI

How businesses can balance AI innovation and cybersecurity

Three people stare at a laptop with a Vector logo on it
Generative AI
Research

Benchmarking xAI’s Grok-1

A man looks at a white board with red formulas on it
Insights
Trustworthy AI

How to safely implement AI systems

Headshot of Vector Faculty Member Xi He.
Insights
Trustworthy AI

How Vector Researcher Xi He uses differential privacy to help keep data private

Three people stare at a laptop with a Vector logo on it
Insights
Research

Vector Research Blog: Structured Neural Networks for Density Estimation and Causal Inference

Insights
Research

Vector Research Blog: Causal Effect Estimation Using Machine Learning

group of people sitting in auditorium setting watching presentation
Generative AI
Insights

Vector Institute hosts first-of-its-kind Generative AI Leadership Summit

Insights
Research

Machine learning theory takes centre stage at Vector Institute workshop

Insights

12 AI Trends to watch for in 2024

Two women typing code onto a computer
Generative AI
Insights
Research

Introducing FlexModel: Breakthrough Framework for Unveiling the Secrets of Large Generative AI Models

A man holding a tablet points to a tv screen with white writing on it
Insights
Research
Trustworthy AI

Neutralizing Bias in AI: Vector Institute’s UnBIAS Framework Revolutionizes Ethical Text Analysis

Three people stare at a laptop with a Vector logo on it
Insights
Research

Vector researchers presenting more than 65 papers at NeurIPS 2023

Insights
Research

AI for Chemistry and Materials: blending old and new ways of thinking

Three people surrounding a laptop with a Vector Institute sticker on it
Health
Research

AI & public health: using natural language processing for clinical database management

Research

ICML 2023: Developing an adaptive computation model for multidimensional generative tasks

Three people stare at a laptop with a Vector logo on it
Insights
Research

Vector Research Blog: Large Language Models, Prompting and PEFT

IBET and Vector Institute logos
News
Partnership

Vector partners with IBET to increase the number of Indigenous and Black AI researchers

News
Trustworthy AI

Key takeaways from the All In 2023 conference

News
Research

Dan Roy named Vector Research Co-Director

Doctor talking to patient
Health
Insights
Research

Unlocking AI-powered approaches to cancer treatment and detection

Generative AI
Insights

Generative AI for Enterprise: Risks and Opportunities

South Korea trip reaffirms Canada’s global leadership in responsible AI

How SMBs can manage the opportunities and risks of deploying AI

people networking in atrium office setting
Research

Over 20 Vector research papers accepted at CVPR 2023

Three people stare at a laptop with a Vector logo on it
Generative AI
Insights

AI thought leaders on adopting generative AI

From left to right, Vector researchers Shai Ben-David, Franziska Boenisch, Vered Shwartz, and Sageev Oore at Vector's research symposium
Research

AI Research Symposium highlights new Vector research

Partnership

Vector and Communitech partner to help Canadian SMEs leverage the power of AI

Case Study

How AI Vali helps clinicians improve patient care through Vector’s FastLane program

Blog
Insights

Bill C-27 is a call to action

Case Study

In search of eureka: Sacha Davis’ experience as Vector’s AI project management intern

Vector Institute names Ben Davies as its new Chief Information Officer

Research

Vector researchers win top honours at NeurIPS 2022

Blog

Canada can lead in AI for Science

Blog

Ontario AI snapshot: The state of the province’s AI ecosystem in 2021-22

Blog

A view on Intellectual Property in the Artificial Intelligence Era

Research

Vector researcher Alán Aspuru-Guzik delivers CIFAR Massey Talk

Health

CDI and Vector Machine Learning Challenge for Cancer Image Segmentation winners announced

Research

Deep Learning for Building Footprint Extraction in Aerial Imagery

two computers photo
Program

From no coding skills to AI-ready in three days: Introducing Vector’s Excel to AI for T-CAIREM

Graham Taylor named Vector Research Director

Blog

Bias in AI Program: Showing Businesses How to Reduce Bias and Mitigate Risk

Acceleration Consortium, Matter Lab, and Vector Institute collaborate on software to power self-driving labs

RBC joins Vector for our Computer Vision Symposium and shares how RBC’s new AI engine can accurately recognize building boundaries in satellite imagery

Insights
Research

Vector AI Engineering Blog: Benchmarking Robustness of Reinforcement Learning Approaches using safe-control-gym

Mothers & Machine Learning: Vector’s AI Program for Mothers on Leave and Stay-at-home Caregivers

New Vector Faculty Member Jeff Clune’s quest to create open-ended AI systems

Insights
Research

Vector research blog: Value Gradient weighted Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Ontario strengthens its AI Ecosystem leadership position by extending partnerships with founding industry sponsors

Inside Goldspot’s Formula for Attracting AI Talent to Revolutionize Mining

Research

New AI framework helps map and manage invasive mussel species in Canada’s lakes

CIBC Analytics Day Recap: Understanding and Operationalizing Trustworthy AI

Computer Vision Technical Report details insights from industry-academic collaborative project

Canadian Tire

The Vector Institute Enters Five-Year Strategic Partnership with Canadian Tire Corporation to Enhance Customer Experience

Vector researchers recognized with awards at the 2022 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Vector awards nearly $2 million in scholarships to top master’s students pursuing graduate studies in AI in Ontario

2022 Ontario Budget includes $107M for critical technology initiatives

Students win award at inaugural Introduction to Machine Learning course for Black and Indigenous students

Vector Institute introduces a Smart Health Initiative to drive innovation in healthcare

AI in Action Event: Come Join Vector’s Expert Panel on AI, Climate Change, & ESG

Research Symposium brings together Vector community to celebrate student and postdoc work

Machine Learning Robustness: New Challenges and Approaches

Accelerating innovation in health: Boehringer Ingelheim and the Vector Institute to collaborate on AI

Shingai Manjengwa Photo

Vector’s Shingai Manjengwa named one of Ryerson DMZ’s Women of the Year

Insights

Fairness in Machine Learning: The Principles of Governance 

mobility article graphic

AI in transportation: How companies are building an autonomous future

Machine Learning Interpretability: New Challenges and Approaches

Amateur hockey given professional viewing experience courtesy of machine vision startup co-founded by Vector researcher

AI analysis of Social Media data to help with treatment of long COVID

Using AI to Help Solve the Long COVID Puzzle

AI-enabled tool that identifies COVID-19 variants co-developed by Vector researcher Bo Wang

21 for 2021: the top Vector stories for the AI enthusiast

Technology, including AI, increasingly plays a key role in our food chain

Launch event – FastLane: Accelerating AI-fueled growth for Ontario’s fast-growing companies

Spotlight on Health at NeurIPS 2021 

Vector researchers presenting more than 50 papers at NeurIPS 2021

Quantum tech startup yiyaniQ is Vector’s first spin-out company

New program aims to accelerate AI-fueled growth for small-and-medium-sized businesses

Ontario AI snapshot: The state of the province’s AI ecosystem in 2020-21

Vector researchers help institutions ensure privacy and confidentiality when sharing ML models

Vector researchers use OHDP to determine mortality predictors for long-term care residents with COVID-19

Juan photo

Vector researchers use machine learning to build better quantum computers

Machine learning model creates treatment plans for patients with prostate cancer

Vector Faculty Member Toni Pitassi is the recipient of the 2021 EATCS Award

Responding to major shifts in data: Vector Industry Innovation Report on Dataset Shift Project

Defining AI’s guardrails: a PwC-Vector Fireside Chat on Responsible AI

Talking to Machines: new ML model allows for more “expressive” communication between researchers and AI systems

Machine learning model from Vector researchers creates 3D environments without reference images

Raquel urtasun photo

Vector co-founder Raquel Urtasun raises $100 million for self-driving startup waabi

Geoffrey Hinton receives honorary degree from University of Toronto

Vector Researchers showcase wide-ranging machine learning applications at CVPR 2021

Wenhu Chen, a leader in natural language processing, is Vector’s newest Faculty Member

How Scotiabank Seeks Out Top AI Talent

AI has a compute problem. There’s a Canadian approach to solving it

Newest Vector AI scholarship recipients join growing talent pool in Ontario

Red Maple Leaf Photo

Federal Government Renews Pan-Canadian AI Strategy

Code Graphic

ICLR 2021: Researchers adopt teaching tricks to train neural networks like they’re students

Vector welcomes new researchers to Postgraduate Affiliate program

Richard Zemel

Vector Research Symposium showcases cutting-edge machine learning developments

Richard Zemel

Co-led by Vector Research Director Richard Zemel, ACM FAccT Conference emphasizes the importance of fairness, accountability, and transparency in AI

Vector Institute Launches Program to Help SMEs Reduce Bias in AI

Vivek Goel photo

Vector Board Member Vivek Goel appointed to the Order of Canada

Vector collaborates with Phase AI on new career skills program

Vector Institute Releases First Annual Ontario AI Snapshot

Red Maple Leaf Photo

Vector Faculty Members among newly appointed Canada CIFAR AI Chairs

Vector banner

Vector welcomes 2020 cohort of Faculty Affiliates

lines of code graphic

Harnessing the Power of Natural Language Processing (NLP): Insights from Vector’s industry-academic collaborative project

Rachel Theriault headshot

Vector Scholarship in AI winner recognized for bringing AI to cancer analysis

pearl sullivan headshot

Vector Institute extends condolences to the family and colleagues of Pearl Sullivan

zoom stock photo

Vector research community preps for virtual NeurIPS 2020

Code Graphic

The Genesis of Manulife’s NLP Academy

Graham Taylor

Researchers and startups converge in Toronto AI ecosystem

two computers photo

Key ingredients companies need to successfully integrate AI

auditorium photo

Vector researchers take leadership role at Conference on Uncertainty in AI

scales photo

Vector researcher develops fairness model that accounts for individual preferences

marzyeh Gghassemi photo

Vector researchers co-lead first ACM Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning

CIFAR Logo

Vector researchers among recipients of CIFAR AI Catalyst Grants

auditorium photo

Vector researchers prep for ICML 2020

COVID media photo

Vector Faculty Member Marzyeh Ghassemi among those receiving CIHR COVID-19 Rapid Research Response funding

magnifying glass photo

VECTOR RESEARCHERS PRESENT “FIRST OF ITS KIND” AI-POWERED SEARCH ENGINE FOR AI AT CVPR 2020

VECTOR RESEARCHER BO WANG DEVELOPS TOOL TO TRACK GENETIC EVOLUTION OF COVID-19

stethoscope photo

Vector partners with Michener Institute of Education at UHN to embed AI into healthcare practice

Person headshot

Jane Philpott named special advisor of the Ontario Health Data Platform which Vector is supporting with computing infrastructure and data science expertise

syntesize, plan, characterize circular diagram

Vector researcher Alán Aspuru-Guzik launches world’s first “self-driving lab” for the discovery of thin-film materials.

fidler sanja photo

Vector researcher Sanja Fidler part of team behind Nvidia’s GameGAN, which generates games like Pac-Man by watching videos

Fish eye city photo

Experts, including Vector researcher Frank Rudzicz, detail how COVID-19 will reshape our world

CIFAR Logo

Five Vector-led AI research projects among those chosen for CIFAR’s AI and COVID-19 Catalyst Grants

Document Graphic

Vector Institute’s AI makes predictions about random events like market trades

COVID Graphic

Vector Institute joins Roche Canada Data Science Coalition, launches Kaggle challenge to Advance COVID-19 Solutions

Alan Aspuru

Vector and U of T researcher aims to improve accuracy of COVID-19 contact tracing with MyTrace app

Vector banner

Vector Institute welcomes new 2020 postgraduate affiliates

stethoscope photo

Implementing AI in healthcare: new white paper offers insights for deploying AI-enabled healthcare tools

garth Gibson announcement Graphic

A message from Garth Gibson to Vector community

CiteNet Graphic

Vector researchers release scientific paper search tool to help in fight against COVID-19

Person headshot

Vector researcher is tapping human wisdom using AI

Mcilraith Photo

How Vector and U of T computer scientists are transforming the world

Multiple source domain diagram

Vector researcher Bo Wang develops a method for harmonizing medical data from multiple hospitals

doctor graphic

Vector Bronze Sponsor Surgical Safety Technologies lands on Time magazine’s Best Inventions 2019 list

Alan Aspuru

MIT Tech Review: Vector Faculty Alán Aspuru-Guzik’s work with AI-discovered molecules named one of 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2020

COVID photo

Coronavirus research breakthrough has Toronto roots

Trendline graphic

New neural network models offer the potential for better predictions in medicine, finance, and human genetics

Football photo

Vector researchers at McMaster use AI to uncover signs of concussions decades after injury

Scientist Cartoon Graphic

University of Toronto Magazine: Alán Aspuru-Guzik Has Seen the Lab of The Future, and It’s Very, Very Fast

Group Photo In Downtown Toronto

Vector hosts internship program for African machine learning students

Garth Gibson Photo

Globe & Mail: Innovation in health care depends on responsible, expanded data access for AI researchers

Microscope Photo

Machine learning for healthcare presents new challenges to reproducibility

Group Whiteboard Photo

Vector researcher Will Grathwohl wants to lower the barriers to entry to AI

Red Maple Leaf Photo

Canada’s top international AI talent grows to 80

schwartz reisman photo

UofT breaks ground on the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre, future Vector Institute home

Tick Photo

Tick Identification to Combat Lyme Disease