Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)

Nightingale.ai, an AI-enabled platform that enables physiotherapists and their patients to connect remotely, is one of five winners of Hatchery Demo Day 2021. (Photo courtesy: Nightingale.ai)

Five startups to watch from U of T Engineering’s virtual Hatchery Demo Day 2021

September 24, 2021

Companies aim to bring technological improvements to urban planning, physiotherapy and many other fields

Professor George Eleftheriades (ECE) achieved a practical mechanism for ‘full-duplex nonreciprocity,’ a property in metamaterials that allows for manipulation of both incoming and reflective beams of light. (Photo: Matthew Tierney)

New metamaterial with unusual reflective property could boost your Wi-Fi signal

September 22, 2021

U of T Engineering research team’s ‘full-duplex’ intelligent metasurface has the potential to double the capacity of existing wireless communication networks

Professor Xilin Liu (ECE) advances the technologies of integrated circuits and machine learning to help modulate brain networks for applications in health care, such as relieving or suppressing neurological disorders and conditions. (Photo: Jaxson Batter)

ECE welcomes new faculty member Professor Xilin Liu

September 16, 2021

Professor Liu’s research advances applications of integrated circuits and machine learning on human health

Mai Ali (ECE PhD candidate). (Photo courtesy Mai Ali)

IBET Momentum Fellow Mai Ali designs autonomously powered sensors for health care

September 10, 2021

Ali plans to harness the power of artificial intelligence in ambient assisted living systems

Professor Li Qian (ECE), shown in her lab pre-pandemic, is part of a research team that proposed a new quantum fingerprinting protocol, which is used to quickly and securely identify whether information from two sources is the same. (Photo: Don Figer)

Quantum ‘fingerprints’ made smaller and delivered faster

August 26, 2021

New protocol from ECE researchers solves communication complexity problems more efficiently and with off-the-shelf components

In the Rock Fracture Dynamics Facility (CivMin), rock samples are subjected to the stress, fluid pressure and temperature conditions they would experience in nature. The research is one of nine projects boosted by new funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. (Photo courtesy Sebastian Goodfellow)

Rock music: Listening for induced earthquakes among nine U of T Engineering projects funded through CFI

August 11, 2021

CFI’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund will support research into seismicity, water treatment, bioengineering and more

Professors Lisa Austin (Faculty of Law) and David Lie (ECE) — photographed before the COVID-19 pandemic — are part of a multidisciplinary team behind a new global study that explores the privacy expectations and behaviour of smartphone users. (Photo: Jessica MacInnis)

Privacy study sheds light on why we grant or deny app requests

July 27, 2021

U of T Engineering professor led a multidisciplinary team behind a new global study that explores the privacy expectations and behaviour of smartphone users

Professor Philippe Lavoie (UTIAS) is among five U of T Engineering researchers to receive funding in the latest round of the Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence (ORF-RE) program. (Photo: Meredith Pullara)

Five U of T Engineering faculty receive Ontario Research Funding to advance transformative research

July 6, 2021

Projects include reducing aircraft noise emissions, developing all-weather autonomous vehicles

Professor Parham Aarabi (ECE) is one of a group of AI experts behind HALT AI, a U of T service that tests for bias in AI systems across a variety of diversity dimensions, such as gender, age and race. (Photo: Johnny Guatto)

New U of T initiative to assess bias in AI systems

June 25, 2021

U of T service measures the performance of AI algorithms across diverse inputs, such as gender, age and race.

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