Two wearable tech startups from U of T engineering alumni making news
They’re building up, shipping out and being celebrated as the future of innovation. The University of Toronto is a hub for many biotech and health innovators looking to develop their research and business acumen through programs, courses, accelerators and more. With consumers continually looking for the next new thing, it can take a lot for […]
Why this U of T biotech entrepreneur made MIT’s Innovators Under 35 list
David He (ECE 0T5) found himself in good company today: MIT Technology Review just named him to its list of Innovators Under 35. It’s a title the University of Toronto engineering alumnus shares with past honourees such as Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Jack Dorsey (Twitter) and Jonathan Ive (designer of the […]
U of T Engineering’s Wei Yu among world’s most influential researchers
Want faster Internet? Professor Wei Yu (ECE) is on the case. Professor Yu was recently named to Thomson Reuters’ rankings of the most highly cited scientific researchers in the world, one of 19 University of Toronto professors to make the list. He was included in the Computer Science category, which selected just 117 top thinkers […]
From pulsars to particles: What can engineers do with big data?
The information available today, between books, the Internet and more, amounts to approximately 1,200 exabytes – that’s 1,200 billion gigabytes – of data. If all of that were stored on CDs, the discs would form five stacks, each tall enough to reach the moon. Big data – sets of information that are too large to […]
Turning scientists into entrepreneurs with Techno’s startup accelerator program
Albert Einstein is said to have been unable to balance a chequebook or ride a bicycle. And yet, he is credited with some of the most important ideas and discoveries of the 20th century, including the Theory of Relativity. Is it possible for one person to contain all the skills necessary to turn ideas into […]
What state secrets is your house keeping?
Wondering why your hydro bill is so high this month? There is a chance your neighbours are offloading some of their consumption on to you, or even monitoring your usage to learn about your daily habits. These are concerns that arise as we become more advanced in our regulation of energy through complex cyber networks […]
Machine learning, genetics and doubt: Big ideas from NASIT’14
Professor En-hui Yang asked information theorists from across the world to doubt absolutely everything — except, of course, their decision to study information theory (IT). Yang spoke at the IEEE North American School for Information Theory (NASIT’14), hosted this month by the University of Toronto. The conference brought together 100 graduate students from across North […]
Four U of T engineers receive Ontario Professional Engineers Awards
Márta Ecsedi (CivE 7T6) knows a little something about being first. During her undergraduate degree at U of T Engineering, she was the first woman to lead the Engineering Society. Later, she served as the first woman president of the Engineering Alumni Association. She was also the founding chair of two different professional engineering advisory […]
New class of nanoparticle brings cheaper, lighter solar cells outdoors
Think those flat, glassy solar panels on your neighbour’s roof are the pinnacle of solar technology? Think again. Researchers in the University of Toronto’s Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering have designed and tested a new class of solar-sensitive nanoparticle that outshines what we currently consider state of the art. This […]
