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Drowning in data: Interdisciplinary case study on Coimbatore’s water supply underlines challenges with open data and smart cities

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New tool harnesses AI to navigate expanding world of metal–organic frameworks

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Engineering Research Day featured four panels on the various intersections between engineering and sustainability, including ‘Climate Positive and Sustainable Campus.’ (Photo: Dewey Chang)

Engineering Research Day showcases the critical role of engineers in addressing sustainability issues

Dr. Hugues Thomas (UTIAS) and his collaborators created a new method for robot navigation based on self-supervised deep learning (Photo: Safa Jinje)

UTIAS researchers design socially aware robots to move safely around people

Professors Yu Zou (MSE), left, and Nicolas Papernot (ECE), right, received Early Researcher Awards from the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities in the latest round of funding. (Photos: Submitted)

Ontario Early Researcher Awards support materials for next-generation vehicles and trustworthy applications of machine learning

A city bus is pictured stuck since the morning hours in downtown Toronto after a major blizzard dumped as much as 60cm of snow on parts of Southern Ontario, closing major highways and roadways, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 17, 2022. (Photo by Cole Burston)

U of T Engineering students dig through snowplow data to measure Toronto’s response to winter storms