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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

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

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

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U of T Engineering professors and alumni elected to the Canadian Academy of Engineering

Fellows celebrated for their outstanding contributions to engineering in Canada and around the world.

PhD candidate Jianan Erick Huang works on an electrolyzer in the lab of Professor Ted Sargent at the University of Toronto. The team has developed a new process for converting dissolved CO2 into higher-value products, such as ethylene. Unlike previous systems, the team’s electrolyzer can be run under strongly acidic conditions, greatly increasing the proportion of carbon that is converted. (Photo: Geonhui Lee)

Passing the acid test: New low-pH system recycles more carbon into valuable products

Electrochemical reactor runs under acidic conditions to convert more than 50% of CO2 into products such as ethylene and ethanol

Narinder Dhami (Skoll ElecE 0T5 + MBA 08) formed a coalition of South Asian community leaders to respond to the emergency situation in India. The coalition created the India COVID-19 Relief Fund to help facilitate donations from Canadians.

U of T Engineering alumna sets up funding initiative to help India recover from COVID-19

Narinder Dhami is part of a coalition of South Asian leaders working to maximize impact of donations from Canadians, with a goal of raising $1 million.

Professor Ervin Sejdić combines expertise in machine learning, signal processing and data science to improve health outcomes for patients. (Photo by: North York General Hospital)

ECE welcomes new faculty member Ervin Sejdić

In 2016, President Barack Obama presented Sejdić with the highest honour bestowed by the U.S. for young researchers

Gamma Knife radiosurgery, performed mainly on the brain, uses medical imaging to create a treatment plan, which can be optimized by a quantum-inspired technology called the Digital Annealer. (Photo by Nikita Karchevskyi via Envato)

Researchers apply quantum-inspired technology to reduce radiation treatment planning time

Digital Annealer technology application is latest development in longstanding collaboration between U of T Engineering and Fujitsu Laboratories

Max Planck Society President Martin Stratmann (left) and U of T President Meric Gertler participated in a virtual launch event for the Max Planck-University of Toronto Centre for Neural Science & Technology (photo by Axel Griesch für MPG and Johnny Guatto)

U of T and Max Planck Society establish centre to study neural science and technology

The Max Planck-University of Toronto Centre for Neural Science & Technology aims to develop and deploy advanced technologies to study brain circuits for the improvement of human health, while charting new territory in computing

Heat-map images are used to evaluate the accuracy of a novel explainable artificial intelligence algorithm developed for LG’s display screens. (Image courtesy of Mahesh Sudhakar)

New ‘explainable’ artificial intelligence algorithm could lead to smarter manufacturing

The technology is the first product of a collaboration between ECE and LG’s AI Research division