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Over the past two decades, U of T Engineering has spun out more than 100 new companies. Programs such as our Entrepreneurship Hatchery, our Engineering Business minor and our Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (Troost ILEAD) provide rich opportunities to commercialize research and grow startups into thriving businesses.

Entrepreneurship at U of T Engineering

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 spin-off ModiFace acquired by French cosmetics giant L’Oreal

March 16, 2018

ModiFace uses augmented reality and artificial intelligence to build advanced facial visualization software

Left to right: U of T Professor Geoff Hinton (Computer Science) and alumnus Matt Zeiler (EngSci 0T9) speak with Kyle Hsu (Year 3 EngSci) at the Engineering Science Education Conference, held January 26, 2018. (Photo: Kevin Zhang)

Get the picture: Q and A with Matt Zeiler, founder and CEO of Clarifai

February 28, 2018

Startup founded by EngSci alumnus uses artificial intelligence to ‘understand’ photos and video

Governor General Julie Payette (ECE MASc 9T0), Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Dean Cristina Amon with members of the U of T Engineering Blue Sky Solar Racing team. (Photo: Marit Mitchell)

PHOTOS: U of T Engineering students and alumni demonstrate innovations for Governor General

February 28, 2018

Event marked the first official visit to Ontario from Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette (ECE MASc 9T0)

U of T Engineering alumna and entrepreneur Huda Idrees (IndE 1T2+PEY) is the founder and CEO of digital medical records startup Dot Health. She will appear on a Women-in-Tech panel Tuesday as part of U of T's Entrepreneurship Week.(Credit: Pam Lau)

‘It’s really shocking’: U of T Engineering alumna and entrepreneur on the tech industry’s lack of gender diversity

February 28, 2018

Huda Idrees, founder and CEO of digital medical records company Dot Health, is one of four panellists participating in a Women in Tech event for U of T Entrepreneurship Week

The Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CEIE) officially opens April 27th. (Image courtesy Montgomery Sisam Architects & Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios)

Myhal Centre: A floor-by-floor tour — Part II

February 27, 2018

The upper floors of U of T Engineering’s newest building will include a four-storey atrium anchored by an event space, a research lab and a home on campus for alumni and collaborators

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

February 27, 2018

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

February 26, 2018

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

Professor Paul Santerre (Dentistry, IBBME), at left, has been named the Baxter Chair of Health Technology and Commercialization by the University Health Network. (Credit: Neil Ta).

Paul Santerre named Baxter Chair of Health Technology and Commercialization

February 22, 2018

Biomedical engineering professor receives UHN support to drive commercialization and entrepreneurship opportunities for students and hospital trainees

Professor Jason Anderson (ECE) at centre, holds an FPGA board with the LegUp team behind him. Left to right, Zhi Li (CompE 1T3), Omar Ragheb (CompE MEng 1T8), Professor Jason Anderson (ECE), Dr. Jongsok Choi (CompE MASc 1T2, PhD 1T6), Dr. Andrew Canis (CompE PhD 1T5), and Ruolong Lian (CompE 1T3, MASc 1T6) are making it easier for software developers to leverage servers based on FPGAs. (Credit: Jessica MacInnis)

U of T Engineering spinoff LegUp Computing secures seed funding from Intel Capital

February 22, 2018

Company spawned from ECE research on easing development and adoption of reconfigurable computer hardware

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