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High performance: Meet two elite student athletes at U of T Engineering

Soccer star Mehdi Essoussi and wrestling phenom Kirti Saxena have represented Canada on the world stage. Now, they’re bringing that hustle to their next challenge: first-year engineering

Professor Jason Anderson is among eight U of T Engineering researchers named to the 2018 cohort at the Vector Institute. (Credit: Jessica MacInnis)

Eight U of T Engineering researchers named Vector Institute Faculty Affiliates

The Vector Institute brings together leading researchers in deep learning, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) generally, from across Ontario

Allen Lau (ElecE 9T1, ECE MASc 9T2), co-founder of the story-sharing platform Wattpad, says Toronto is an ideal place to launch a global company as long as entrepreneurs take advantage of the city's diversity of cultures and languages. (Credit: Chris Sorensen)

Wattpad’s secret to success? Think globally and hire locally, co-founder and U of T Engineering alumnus says

Allen Lau says Toronto’s diversity gives his company a distinct advantage in international markets

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