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Joseph Orozco, executive director of The Entrepreneurship Hatchery, gives opening remarks at Demo Day 2018, held on September 5 in the new Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

Startups to watch from Hatchery Demo Day 2018

Four student-founded companies take home a total $42,500 in seed funding at this year’s pitch competition event

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Six U of T Engineering graduate students awarded $150K Vanier Scholarships

Funding supports research in fields including human-robot interaction, therapeutic applications of reversing blindness, investigating chronic pain

Mirza Nahiyan, who was one of TDSB's top students, is about to begin her first year in computer engineering at U of T (photo by Romi Levine)

She had a 99% average in high school. Here’s how one of Toronto’s top scholars prepares for her first day at U of T Engineering

Mirza Nahiyan, one of TDSB’s top students, is about to begin her first year in computer engineering at U of T

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U of T Engineering blockchain project receives funding injection from Connaught Fund

Multidisciplinary team unites researchers to apply blockchain technology in fields from law to finance

Professor Moshovos and his team. Front row, left to right: Zissis Poulos, Dylan Malone Stuart, Professor Andreas Moshovos; back row, left to right: Sayeh Sharifymoghaddam, Kevin Siu, Mostafa Mahmoud, Patrick Judd, Alberto Delmas Lascorz, Milos Nikolic. (Credit: Tyler Irving)

Building the computing engines that will power the machine learning revolution

New NSERC Strategic Partnership Network focuses on techniques to optimize hardware for artificial intelligence

On the left of each quadrant is a real X-ray image of a patient’s chest and beside it, the syntheisized X-ray formulated by the DCGAN. Under the X-ray images are corresponding heatmaps, which is how the machine learning system sees the images (Image courtesy of: Hojjat Salehinejad/MIMLab).

Training artificial intelligence with artificial X-rays

New U of T Engineering research could help AI identify rare conditions in medical images by augmenting existing datasets

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U of T Engineering professors, alumni and students recognized by the Canadian Academy of Engineering

The CAE is a national institution through which Canada’s most distinguished and experienced engineers provide strategic advice on matters of critical importance to Canada

U of T Engineering graduate student Eman Hammad with her family

‘Just keep going’: International student Eman Hammad juggled four kids and earned a PhD in engineering

Juggling four children, Eman Hammad (ECE PhD 1T8) completed her PhD dissertation in smart grid cybersecurity by tapping into the university resources around her, having her family pitch in, and simply putting her head down and forging ahead

Professor Parham Aarabi (ECE) is the CEO and founder of ModiFace, a spin-off company that uses augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) to build advanced facial visualization software for the beauty and medical industries. ModiFace has been acquired by L'Oreal. (Credit: Johnny Guatto)

U of T Engineering AI researchers design ‘privacy filter’ for your photos that disables facial recognition systems

New algorithm protects users’ privacy by dynamically disrupting facial recognition tools designed to identify faces in photos