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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

Professor Daniel Franklin (BME) holds up two devices that make up the wearable cardiovascular monitoring system. (Photo: Qin Dai)

New wearable medical device aims to redefine cardiovascular monitoring

Professor Daniel Franklin (BME) is collaborating with researchers from Northwestern University on the device

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

Professor Frank Gu.

Research to improve eye disease treatments wins 2023 NSERC Brockhouse Canada Prize

Professor Frank Gu (ChemE), a member of the winning team, is engineering nanomedicines to delay or prevent irreversible blindness caused by glaucoma


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

PhD candidate Xiao Shang sets up a part for printing using the directed energy deposition 3D printer.

This machine learning method aims to speed up the design of next-generation biomedical implants and aerospace materials

A team led by Professor Yu Zou (MSE) is using a deep learning and genetic algorithm framework to achieve application-specific mechanical properties by microstructure optimization

From left to right: Professor Jonathan Rocheleau (BME) and BME PhD candidate Cindy Bui.

U of T Engineering researchers unveil sensor for real-time cellular analysis in living zebrafish embryos

Researchers led by Professor Jonathan Rocheleau (BME) share their findings in a new paper published in Science Advances

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