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Inspired by nature, temperature-responsive building facades could help reduce energy use from heating and cooling

Large Language Models (LLMs) have high electricity and water consumption due to the resource requirements of serving them to millions of users. This footprint can be reduced using methods developed by Professor Samin Aref (MIE) and his team, which produce smaller LLMs through quantizing their parameters. (image generated by ChatGPT)

How ‘slimmed-down’ large language models can reduce AI’s environmental and energy footprint

Farah Ghizzawi

How a passion for sustainable transportation brought this graduate student from Beirut to Toronto

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Elias Khalil joins MIE as an assistant professor. His research interests are in artificial intelligence, with a focus on machine learning and discrete optimization.

MIE welcomes new faculty member Elias Khalil

August 11, 2020

Bipasha Goyal (Year 3 EngSci, Biomedical Option) conducts research on a protein that could fight vision loss by encouraging the growth of photoreceptor cells in the eye. She is one of the dozens of students presenting at this year’s Undergraduate Engineering Research Day, held online August 14, 2020. (Photo: Carter Teal)

‘A world of possibilities’: U of T Engineering undergraduate students host virtual summer research conference

August 10, 2020

Researchers in Professor Warren Chan’s (BME) lab. Ben Ouyang (second from top left) and team, under the supervision of Chan (top left), discovered the dose threshold that improves drug delivery to tumours. (Photo courtesy of Ben Ouyang)

How to get more cancer-fighting nanoparticles to where they are needed

August 10, 2020

A photo of Beirut’s harbour taken in 2013. (Photo: Rachid H, via <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/rachidh/9335102510/">Flickr</a>)

Forensic engineering expert on what happens next in Beirut

August 7, 2020

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