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‘If we in academia don’t go after the hardest challenges, nobody else will’: U of T researcher aims to do it all

U of T Engineering professor Nicolas Papernot (ECE) also holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute, and is a faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute. (photo by Matthew Tierney)

Professor Nicolas Papernot wins the 2025 Steacie Prize

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teaBOT creates customized, robot-blended cups of loose-leaf tea, brewed in under 30 seconds. Its machines are deployed in Toronto and various cities in California. (Photo courtesy of teaBOT)

U of T Engineering startup teaBOT expands across North America

Left to right: Jaclyn Obermeyer, Malgosia Pakulska and Irja Elliott Donaghue, supervised by University Professor Molly Shoichet, are the first to show controlled release of proteins without encapsulating them in nanoparticles. (Credit: Marit Mitchell).

Simple attraction: U of T Engineering researchers control protein release from nanoparticles without encapsulation

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Alumnus leaves landmark $20-million bequest to U of T Engineering

Professor Brendan Frey (ECE) and his co-inventors Drs. Babak Alipanahi and Andrew Delong were recognized with an Invention of the Year Award for DeepBind, the first-ever deep-learning application for determining the specificities of DNA- and RNA-binding proteins.

Brendan Frey wins Invention of the Year award