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EAN Awards 2020

Eleven alumni and students honoured with 2020 Engineering Alumni Network Awards

Awardees were celebrated for their career accomplishments and their contributions to the Skule™ community

Data analytics expert and tennis fan Professor Timothy Chan (MIE) is building a multidisciplinary hub of sports analytics research at U of T. (Photo courtesy Timothy Chan)

Connaught Global Challenge: How big data can help athletes and sports teams play smarter

Through multidisciplinary collaboration, Professor Timothy Chan (MIE) aims to turn U of T into a global leader in sports analytics

Left to right: Professors Merve Bodur (MIE) and Nicolas Papernot (ECE) are among the recipients of this year’s Connaught New Researcher Awards. (Photos: Pam Walls, Nicolas Papernot)

Connaught New Researcher awards boost data-driven decision making and machine learning research

Professors Merve Bodur (MIE) and Nicolas Papernot (ECE) have received funding from U of T’s Connaught Fund

A3MD researchers will combine high-throughput experimentation and artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery of new energy conversion materials and consumer electronics. Ziliang Li (ECE PhD candidate, pictured) holds a next generation light-emitting material in the Sargent Lab at the University of Toronto. (Photo courtesy of Ziliang Li)

New academia-industry partnership to accelerate the search for materials for sustainable energy and smartphones

A new consortium of world-leading researchers and industry partners looks to use artificial intelligence to flip the materials discovery process on its head

From advice to students, to tips on practicing wellness at home, nearly 50 U of T Engineering faculty, staff, students and alumni, have so far shared their messages of support.

U of T Engineering community rallies together to record messages of support for Back to Skule™

“Stay calm and be you” — professors, alumni, students and staff share advice and encouragement

Professor Aimy Bazylak  (MIE) is working to advance fuel cells, electrolyzers and batteries for the production of clean power and energy storage without greenhouse gas emissions. (Photo: Roberta Baker)

Professor Aimy Bazylak elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

Expert in next-generation fuel cells and electrolyzers recognized as one of the country’s emerging intellectual leaders

Dr. Larry Pershin, Manager and Research Associate at the Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies, spray-coats a thin layer of anti-viral copper onto a fabric surface. (Photo: Daria Perevezentsev)

Anti-viral copper coatings could help slow transmission of COVID-19

Professor Javad Mostaghimi (MIE) and his team are using their coating expertise to enhance the functionality of face masks

Professor Michael Guerzhoy (EngSci, MIE)

New faculty member Michael Guerzhoy joins EngSci, MIE

Machine learning and statistics expert encourages incoming students to ‘think big and stay curious’

From top left, clockwise: Professors Chirag Variawa (ISTEP), Marianne Touchie (CivMin), Aimy Bazylak (MIE), Natalie Enright Jerger (ECE) and Elham Marzi (ISTEP). (Photos: Laura Pederson, Kevin Soobrian, Neda Demiri and Roberta Baker)

Five U of T Engineering professors on how they’re preparing for an unprecedented Back to Skule™

Instructors reimagine approaches to teaching as the Faculty gears up for a remote start to fall term