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With his startup company Deep Genomics, Professor Brendan Frey (ECE) marries machine learning and genomic science to develop genetic medicines. (Photo: Johnny Guatto)

U of T Engineering spinoff Deep Genomics raises US$13 million to fund expansion

The startup, launched in 2015, combines artificial intelligence, or AI, and genomics research to help develop genetic medicines

Professor Ali Sheikholeslami demonstrates the features of a test chip designed by his former PhD student Joshua Liang to his MASc student, Danny Yoo, in the lab. (Credit: Jessica MacInnis)

U of T attracts Fujitsu Laboratories R&D centre to Toronto

Fortune 500 juggernaut will also create research collaboration centre at University

Team Genecis won first place at Hatchery Demo Day

Four startups to watch from U of T Engineering’s Hatchery Demo Day

Companies include an engineering career matchmaker and a company that converts food waste into biodegradable plastic

Professor Wei Yu

Wei Yu elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

Professor recognized for his contributions to the fields of information theory and communication engineering

NSERC announcement at U of T

U of T Engineering researchers receive $12.8 million in NSERC research funding

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland visited the University of Toronto yesterday to announce $52.6 million in support to U of T researchers from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The announcement included more than $12.8 million to support the work of 100 graduate students and faculty members at U of […]

Professors Reza Iravani and Milica Radisic

Reza Iravani and Milica Radisic named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada

Professors recognized for contributions to power grid innovation and tissue engineering, respectively

Blue Sky Solar Racing Team - Polaris

Polaris: Blue Sky Solar Racing team unveils its newest vehicle

Ninth-generation solar vehicle to race 3,000 kilometres across Australia in the 2017 World Solar Challenge

This picture shows NORsat-2 in space deploying its antenna. (Credit: Space Norway AS).

U of T Engineering-designed microsatellite with novel deployable antenna launched into orbit

Expandable antenna connected to one of two microsatellite, a type of miniaturized satellite, launched by Norwegian Space Centre from Baikonur, Kazakhstan

U of T Engineering students Andy Liao (Year 2 CivE), Ernesto Diaz Lozano Patiño (CivE 1T5 + PEY, MASc candidate), Alejandro Sarellano Acevedo (ECE MEng candidate), and Mackenzie de Carle (Year 3 CivE) are members of the team that earned a $20,000 prize for their proposal to install solar-powered street lighting in Mexico City’s Toltenco community.

Engineering student team lights up low-income Mexico City community

Solar-powered street lighting can improve safety and promote community development