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Professor Enid Montague stands in front of a mosaic artwork.

New human-centred automation tools could ease stress on overburdened health-care systems

Professor Enid Montague’s project is one of seven from U of T Engineering to receive funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund

An ouroboros (snake eating its own tail) carving in stone.

Training AI on machine-generated text could lead to ‘model collapse,’ ECE professor and collaborators warn

Professor Nicolas Papernot says the proliferation of AI-generated content could “pollute” the internet, so the data pool no longer reflects reality

Bryant Bak-Yin Lim (BME MEng candidate, left) and Ali Yassine (ECE MEng candidate, right) simulate reviewing a breast cancer tissue scan. As interns at Perimeter Medical Imaging, Lim and Yassine developed new AI algorithms for breast cancer imaging. (Photo: Neil Ta)

MEng students use AI to improve imaging tool used during breast cancer surgery

New techniques to help surgeons prioritize images of suspected cancerous material in real-time in the operating room

From left to right: PhD candidate Oreoluwa Kolade and Professors Julie Audet and Sowmya Viswanathan.

Researchers are creating algorithms to accelerate the development of new cellular therapies to repair damaged tissues

Professor Julie Audet (BME) is collaborating with researchers across U of T Engineering to create tools to enhance the therapeutic properties of cells grown in laboratories

Professor Brokoslaw Laschowski wears a prototype of his lab’s AI-powered smart glasses (Photo: Polina Teif)

‘Bionic professor’ aims to transform the field of wearable robotics

Professor Brokoslaw Laschowski (MIE) is developing AI-powered technologies that interface with humans

Dr. Mjaye Mazwi (left) and Professor Sebastian Goodfellow (CivMin) are training AI to recognize the warning signs of impending arrhythmia based on clinicians’ expertise and more than 10,000 electrocardiogram readings. (Photo: SickKids)

Tremors of the heart: How AI could help doctors predict cardiac problems in critically ill children

U of T researchers test artificial intelligence similar to earthquake detection AI to diagnose heart rhythm abnormalities at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children

Robotics in a chemistry lab

‘Self-driving labs’: $200-million federal grant powers AI-driven materials discovery for clean energy, advanced manufacturing and more

Funding will enhance the work of the Acceleration Consortium, a multidisciplinary collaboration that includes several U of T Engineering researchers

A woman with long black hair and glasses works with photon source equipment in an engineering lab setting.

ECE professor joins international effort to establish quantum communications link between the EU and Canada

HyperSpace is one of the largest collaborations yet for the Canadian quantum community

Shahrokh Valaee and Mohammad Javad-Kalbasi

Quantum-inspired solution more than doubles the efficiency of telecommunications network modernization

Using a U of T–Fujitsu quantum-inspired tool, Professor Shahrokh Valaee and grad student Mohammad Javad-Kalbasi optimize the process of circuit migration in legacy telecommunications networks