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Professor Myrtede Alfred is pictured smiling outdoors wearing a black coat and red scarf.

U of T Engineering professor addresses maternal care disparities for racialized patients in U.S. health care systems

Study led by Professor Myrtede Alfred (MIE) analyzed incident reports to measure outcomes among racialized groups

A flat-bed truck holding passenger vehicles drives on a lane highway. The right lane shows a line up of passenger vehicles.

How the CLUE research group is rethinking urban freight logistics

Professor Matthew Roorda (CivMin) is leading the group of researchers from U of T, McMaster University and York University

Professor Amr Helmy directing students in a laboratory environment.

U of T Engineering-led research group secures funding to develop quantum sensors as an alternative to GPS

ECE professors Amr Helmy and Ravi Adve are part of a research collaboration funded by the Department of National Defence that will use quantum properties to develop more precise inertial navigation systems

Professor Xilin Liu (standing, centre) guides students Mona Murphy (left; Year 4 ElecE) and Nishant Kumar (Year 4 EngSci) as they analyze Nishant’s EEG.

New ECE course on brain-machine interfaces introduces undergraduates to next-gen health care

Professors Xilin Liu and Ervin Sejdić have launched a fourth-year undergraduate course on the neural interfacing technology used in treatment of Parkinson’s, epilepsy and other diseases

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

Headshots of Craig Simmons and Bharam Mirani

U of T Engineering researchers develop new method for engineering soft connective tissue

Novel approach, developed by Professor Craig Simmons (BME, MIE), Bahram Mirani (MIE PhD candidate) and collaborators, leverages computational modelling, statistical optimization and Melt Electrowriting

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%

ECE professor J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves has been awarded a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Intelligent Digital Infrastructures. He plans to go back to first principles to reimagine a smarter, more equitable Internet. (Photo: Matthew Tierney)

ECE professor awarded Canada Excellence Research Chair to reimagine the Internet

The appointment of Professor J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves will advance his work to overhaul the computer networks that comprise the Internet

From left to right: Professor Prasanth Nair and Kevin Course, PhD candidate.

New machine learning algorithm aims to improve predictive models of complex dynamical systems

The Decision Analytics for Computational Engineering research group led by Professor Prasanth B. Nair (UTIAS) is developing computational methods to drive scientific discoveries