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A therapist meets with a patient.

U of T Engineering students are incorporating AI in treating certain mental health conditions

Professor Michael Guerzhoy (MIE, EngSci) and a team of undergraduate students are researching how artificial intelligence can complement traditional mental health treatment

Researchers working in the Device Foundry

CRAFT 2.0: Academic hospital network joins centre for research on microfluidic devices for human health

The Centre for Research and Applications in Fluidic Technologies (CRAFT) is a unique collaboration between U of T and the National Research Council of Canada, and now, Unity Health Toronto

Four students hold up their first place certificates.

ISTEP hosts environmental design challenge motivating students to create impactful sustainable solutions

The 2024 Clarke Prize Environmental Design Challenge was two-day hackathon held at the end of January

Graeme Aylward (IndE, Year 4) participates in the 50-metre Freestyle at the 2023 USports Championships. (Photo: Seyran Mammadov)

Blues Engineering provides a community-building academic support system for student athletes

The student-run organization, which formed in 2013, offers peer tutoring as an extension of Varsity Blues’ Academic Support for Athletes Program

Members of the UTAT Space Systems division gather on the sixth-floor roof of the Bahen Centre with the fully assembled ground station.

UTAT division launches first satellite into space, initiating next phase of communication mission

The student design team launched HERON Mk. II into low-Earth orbit on November 11, 2023

Professor Eldan Cohen.

Developer-in-the-loop: Building human-compatible approaches to source code summarization

Professor Eldan Cohen (MIE) is one of four U of T Engineering professors receiving support from the Connaught New Researcher Award

A machine is used to fill bottles with donor human breast milk.

How AI could help optimize nutrient consistency in donated human breast milk

A team of researchers led by Professor Timothy Chan (MIE) has designed an optimization model that improves nutritional content and decreases the time it takes to create milk bank recipes by 60%

From top left to right: Manroop Kalsi, Lucas Hilden, Adam Omarali, Serewaya Latif and Samantha Sedran.

The next generation of STEM leaders: Meet U of T Engineering’s 2023 Schulich Leaders

The scholarships cover the total cost of an undergraduate education — allowing Schulich Leaders to focus entirely on pursuing their goals

Representatives from the Institute of Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation, a South Korean government institution funding this program, visited U of T in July 2023 to discuss the applied AI program for South Korean graduate students. (Photo: Aaron Demeter)

U of T partnership will bring graduate students from South Korea to Toronto for six-month applied AI program

Initiative will be run through the Centre for Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Engineering (CARTE) and housed in the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering