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Data analytics and artificial intelligence programs and research at U of T Engineering is reshaping processes to improve lives and generate value for people around the world.

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

Modern dark data centre, focus on the foreground, 3D render.

U of T Engineering study finds bigger datasets might not always be better for AI models

New research on materials science datasets shows the amount of training data can be significantly reduced with minimal impact on the performance of the model


The Self-Driving Lab for Human Organ Mimicry will use organoids and organs-on-chips – a well plate is pictured here – to allow researchers to move potential therapeutics to human clinical trials more rapidly. (Photo by Rick Lu)

U of T ‘self-driving lab’ to focus on next-gen human tissue models

The Self-Driving Laboratory for Human Organ Mimicry is one of six self-driving labs launched by the Acceleration Consortium to drive research across a range of fields

IEEE has awarded two professors from ECE career-spanning awards for research in their respective fields: Professors Hoi-Kwong Lo (left) and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves. IEEE is a professional association with hundreds of thousands of members around the globe. (Photos: submitted)

Two ECE professors win esteemed IEEE awards for pioneering contributions to their field

Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo honoured for his work in quantum information and quantum cryptography, and Professor J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves celebrated for his work in computer networks

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

Professor Mohamad Moosavi stands in front of blackboard with a notebook in one hand, chalk in the other hand. A formula is written on the board in chalk.

U of T Engineering professor incorporating AI to help decarbonize chemical industries

Joint EMHSeed and XSeed Funding Program to support research on expanding database of metal-organic frameworks for AI analysis

A headshot of Professor Nicolas Papernot

Professor Nicolas Papernot elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

Papernot is cross-appointed to The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science