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Fall Convocation 2019: Three graduating students share their one-minute thesis

Graduate students Maryam Fallah, Locke Davenport Huyer and Tij Gupta explain their research in one minute

U of T Engineering researchers are using a traditional eye test to assess the quality of VR cameras. (Photo: David Travis, via Unsplash)

From quality control to deepfakes: How one U of T Engineering team is advancing VR technology

Two new research papers aim to expand the use of VR for personal and professional applications

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Four startups to watch from Hatchery Demo Day 2019

Student teams presented their business models at the Entrepreneurship Hatchery’s annual Demo Day

Natalie Enright Jerger (ECE) is considered a worldwide expert in “on-chip” networks (Photo: Roberta Baker)

U of T Engineering researcher and McLean Award-winner is building the future of computer architecture

Honour recognizes Professor Natalie Enright Jerger’s early-career accomplishments and will help build her team of graduate students

Professor Amr Helmy (left) and ECE PhD candidate Han Liu (right) with a quantum imaging-enabled chip that was fabricated in-house in Helmy’s lab. The chip shown contains about 1,000 of such light sources. (Photo: Liz Do)

U of T Engineering researchers to harness quantum properties of light for biomedical imaging, security and more

Professor Amr Helmy (ECE) and his team are working to develop cost-effective applications of quantum sensor technologies

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Using augmented reality to make community spaces accessible for children with autism spectrum disorder

Keren He (ECE MEng 1T9), Christina Park (MI MMSt 1T9) and Yifan Zhang (ECE MEng 1T9) have been honored by Universities Canada for MuseGO, an app that overcomes systemic barriers in museums

Professor David Sinton (MIE) is among four members of the U of T Engineering community to be inducted as fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. (Photo: NSERC)

U of T Engineering professors and alumni honoured by Canadian Academy of Engineering

Professors Milos Popovic and David Sinton, along with alumni Jeffrey Karp and Halim Yanikomeroglu, are among the CAE’s 49 new fellows

From left: Professors Jonathan Kelly (UTAS), Natalie Enright Jerger (ECE) and Aimy Bazylak (MIE), who are among nine new and renewed Canada Research Chairs from U of T Engineering. (Photo credit: Jonathan Kelly and Roberta Baker)

Nine U of T Engineering researchers supported by Canada Research Chairs program

Leading researchers at UTIAS, MIE, ECE and IBBME among 56 new and renewed CRCs at U of T

A research collaboration on analyzing tiny particles of plastic in drinking water is one of 11 projects supported in the latest round of XSeed, which catalyzes multidisciplinary research across U of T. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

XSeed: Catalyzing multidisciplinary research at the University of Toronto

Eleven newly funded projects will advance research in areas from environmental monitoring to cancer detection