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Lab workers wearing Nymi Bands

How U of T Engineering startup Nymi found an unexpected business niche

Founded by U of T Engineering researchers in 2011, Nymi uses people’s heartbeats as biometric identifiers to log them into iPhones, iPads — and now industrial equipment.

Clockwise from left: Mubtaseem Zaman, Tanvir Shahriar, Sadman Hasan and Farhad Siddique are the members of point 37, one of more than 100 teams to apply to The Entrepreneurship Hatchery this year. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Entrepreneurship Week: The Hatchery launches its 2018 cohort

More than 100 teams applied to participate in U of T Engineering startup incubator’s Nest program

Professor Piero Triverio (ECE) at centre, and collaborators Drs. Stephen Fremes (right), Laura Jiménez-Juan (left) of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Professor Gianluigi Rozza of SISSA are developing a study that could provide surgeons with better information about coronary artery disease (Credit: Jessica MacInnis).

Mysteries of the heart: U of T Engineering professor developing solutions for coronary artery disease with mathematical models

Research team led by Piero Triverio (ECE) is looking at ways to solve some of medicine’s most challenging heart problems through computational mathematics

Professors Rita Kandel and Robert Pilliar (IBBME), at right, are working on a promising new treatment that could see diseased joints replaced with new tissue-engineered joints developed at U of T Engineering. (Credit: Jennifer Robinson)

New joints for arthritis sufferers among U of T Engineering research projects receiving Connaught Innovation Award support

The five funded projects address pressing challenges in fields from machine learning to micro-surgery

Students celebrate at Cannonball 2018

EngSoc contest updates Godiva’s Hymn to reflect diversity in engineering

The Godiva’s Hymn contest, held by U of T’s Engineering Society, encourages students to contribute verses that echo the spirit of the 21st-century engineer. The 2018 winners were announced at Cannonball on Jan. 13, 2018.

Professor Milos Popovic, at right, speaks with a U of T Engineering alumnus about his research. Popovic has been named research director of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. (Credit: Jonathan Sabeniano)

Milos Popovic appointed research director of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute

IBBME professor is a world-renowned researcher in the field of rehabilitation engineering

Professor Reza Iravani (ECE) and members of his research group (from left, Mr. Xiaolin Wang, Professor Reza Iravani, Dr. Ali Nabavi and Dr. Milan Graovac) are helping to reduce range anxiety for electric vehicle drivers (Photo: Jessica MacInnis)

Reducing ‘range anxiety’ for electric vehicles by speeding up charging time

Large-scale, utility level battery systems will reduce the charging time for electric vehicles from hours to minutes

Professor Alberto Leon-Garcia (ECE) and his partners aim to use data to improve the efficiency and livability of cities such as Toronto. (Photo: City of Toronto, via Flickr)

Smarter cities: Strategic partnership leverages technology and big data to improve urban environments

Collaboration brings together academia, industry and government to explore how the Internet of Things can make cities work better

In a comment piece published today in Nature, Professor Ted Sargent (ECE) and his co-authors suggest that artificial intelligence and machine learning could be leveraged to speed up the development of sustainable energy technologies. (Photo: Johnny Guatto)

Artificial intelligence can accelerate the race toward sustainable energy technologies

We’ve all heard that artificial intelligence and machine learning are poised to transform our lives with self-driving cars and voice-activated robotic assistants. But these technologies may also be the key to speeding up the development of clean energy —  from better batteries to more efficient solar cells. That’s the argument advanced today in Nature by […]