Media coverage of ECE faculty, students and alumni

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December 2021

 

• • Professor Steve Mann on The Asimov Institute: "Inverse Surveillance AI Expert Interviews (Episode 2)" (podcast)

 

• • Professor Nicholas Papernot in Quanta Magazine: "AI Researchers Fight Noise by Turning to Biology"

 

 

November 2021

 

• • Professor Ervin Sejdić on Healthcare Change Makers: "Research with the Power to Change Lives" (podcast)

 

• • Professor Nicholas Papernot on CBC/Radio-Canada: "Ottawa finance la création d'un outil pour déchiffrer les mots de passe / Ottawa funds creation of tool to crack passwords"

 

• • Professor Ted Sargent in Canada's National Observer: "U of T students win some of Elon Musk's carbon capture cash"

 

• • Professor Ted Sargent and alumnus Alex Ip (ECE PhD 1T5), advisors for Team E-quester, on Global News: "U of T engineering team wins $250K for carbon removal project"

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in Toronto Life: "The Influentials 2021: Our annual ranking of the Torontonians whose bravery, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it" 

 

• • Professor Nicholas Papernot in The New York Times: "As Hackers Take Down Newfoundland's Health Care System, Silence Descends" (paywall)

 

• • Professor David Lie in CBA/ABC National: "Designing data trusts: And what not to do when setting up a mechanism for data stewardship"

 

 

October 2021

 

• • Professor Willy Wong in ZME Science: Scientists find universal law of nature that may govern all living things

 

• • Jonathan (Joonhan) Ryu (Year 1 ECE) in CBC News: "Moncton youth wins $30,000 Amazon scholarship"

 

 

August 2021

 

• • Professor Olivier Trescases in CBC News: "Toronto needs to speed up its electric vehicle infrastructure to meet targets, critics say"

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi of HALT AI in BBC News: "Twitter algorithm prefers slimmer, younger, light-skinned faces"

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi on NBC News: "Twitter's racist algorithm is also ageist, ableist and Islamaphobic, researchers find"

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi of HALT AI in Wired: "Twitter hands out 'bug bounties' to fight algorithm bias"

 

 

July 2021

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in The Globe and Mail: "University of Toronto spinout Deep Genomics raises US$180-million from Softbank, CPP, Fidelity to develop drugs discovered by AI" (paywall)

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi on CityTV News: "U of T team working to address biases in artificial intelligence systems"

 

• • Alumnus Carlo Perez in MedCity News: "Startup turns smartphone camera to wound care"

 

 

June 2021

 

• • Alumnus Allen Lau in The Globe and Mail: "How Wattpad is establishing itself as an entertainment powerhouse (by listening to young women)" (paywall)

 

• • Professor Andreas Veneris in The Globe and Mail: "The future of money: The digital currency revolution is here, and may sweep away 5,000 years of monetary history" (paywall)

 

 

May 2021

 

• • Alumna Narinder Dhami on CTV News: "Canadian Charities Join Forces to Help India" (video)

 

• • Alumnus Somen Mondal in BetaKit: "Ceridan to Acquire Toronto Talent Intelligence Startup Ideal"

 

 

April 2021

 

• • Alumna Elsie MacGill in Net News Ledger: "Thunder Bay Air Cadet Squadron to be renamed in Honour of 'Queen of the Hawker Hurricane'"

 

• • Alumna Elsie MacGill in The Toronto Star: "New Milton high school named for Canada's first female engineer"

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi on BNN Bloomberg: "Most AI builders don't know the biases in their systems" (video)

 

• • Alumnus Joshua Wong, President & CEO of Opus One, in Toronto Star: "Ottawa announces almost $15 million for six Toronto tech firms" (paywall)

 

 

March 2021

 

• • Professor Olivier Trescases in CBC News: "Bothered by headlight glare and thinking of getting tinted windows? You'll want to watch this first" (video)

 

 

February 2021

 

• • Professor Konstantinos Plataniotis in The Korea Herald: "LG AI Research unveils first AI achievement"

 

• • Professor Olivier Trescases in CBC News: "What experts say Canada needs to do to become a leader in the electric vehicle industry"

 

• • Professor Andreas Veneris on Global TV: "Canada looking to create digital consumer currency"

 

• • Xesto, a startup with ECE affiliations, on CTV: "Free app helps people find the perfect sized shoes for their feet"

 

 

January 2021

 

• • Professor Deepa Kundur and ECE students Najah Hassan and Jeffrey Qiu in iDrop News: "Shoe Shopping? Measure Your Size, Get the Perfect Fit with the iPhone's TrueDepth Camera and This Cool App"

 

• • Professor Steve Mann on PBS: "An innovator who sees what others cannot" (video)

 

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November 2020

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi in Dell Technologies's Trailblazers: "5.5 - Beauty: More Than Skin Deep" (podcast)

 

• • ECE students Gaurav Ranganath and Ria Malhotra in The Strand: "How UofT students are hacking, engineering, and running competitions during COVID-19"

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in Financial Post: "Biotech startup investments explode, but big investors fret about assault on drug prices"

 

 

October 2020

 

• • Professor Olivier Trescases in CBC News: "Owner of all-electric Nissan Leaf frustrated by difficulty of getting new battery"

 

• • Professor Ted Sargent in CBC News: "Meet the winners of the 2020 Canada Council Killam Prizes"

 

• • Alumna Elsie MacGill in The Georgia Straight: "New Heritage Minute highlights the world's first female aeronautical engineer: Vancouver's trailblazing Elsie MacGill"

 

• • Alumna Elsie MacGill in CP24: "Second World War female aeronautical engineer Elsie MacGill gets Heritage Minute"

 

• • Alumna Elsie MacGill in Historica Canada's Heritage Minute Series: "Elsie MacGill was the world's first female aeronautical engineer and Canada's first practicing woman engineer."

 

 

August 2020

 

• • Professor David Lie on The Agenda: "Containing COVID-19? There's an app for that."

 

 

July 2020

 

• • Professor David Lie in CBC:"COVID Alert, federally backed contact tracing app, hints at what Manitobans may be able to expect"

 

 

June 2020

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi in BetaKit: "Modiface, Amazon partnership allows Canadian shoppers to try on cosmetics virtually"

 

 

May 2020

 

• • Professor Nicholas Papernot in University of Wisconsin-Madison News: "Teaching machine learning to check senses may avoid sophisticated attacks"

 

• • Professor Ted Sargent in Wired: "This Lab 'Cooks' With AI to Make New Materials"

 

• • Professor Ted Sargent in SciTechDaily: "Artificial Intelligence Helps Researchers Up-Cycle Waste Carbon With Record Efficiency"

 

 

April 2020

 

• • Professor Willy Wong on CTV News: "Team develops mini-monitor to help with COVID-19"

 

• • Professor Willy Wong in Design Engineering: "U of T-developed medical device monitors COVID-19 patients remotely"

 

• • Professor Willy Wong in CBC: "A computer 'the size of a credit card' could help doctors monitor COVID-19 patients remotely"

 

 

March 2020

 

• • Professor Olivier Trescases in The Globe and Mail: "Energy advocates advise EV owners to plug in their cars when it's cold and avoid fast charging" (paywall)

 

 

February 2020

 

• • Professor Steve Mann in TNW: "We shouldn't ban AI surveillance tech - we must fight to own it"

 

• • ECE students Joshua Pius, Idilo Abdalla and Mohamed Hirole in The Varsity: "NSBEHacks 2020: How a hackathon created community for Black U of T STEM students"

 

 

January 2020

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in BetaKit: "Deep Genomics raises $40 million series B for AI drug discovery platform"

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in Fortune: "Medicine by machine: Is A.I. the cure for the world's ailing drug industry?"

 

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December 2019

 

• • Professor Deepa Kundur in CBC: "How engineers of the Montreal Massacre generation are changing the world"

 

• • Professor Li Qian in Policy Options: "Pursuing the career the women of Polytechnique could not"

 

 

November 2019

 

• • Professor Ted Sargent in CTV News: "Toronto researchers convert CO2 waste into common ingredient in plastics"

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in The Varsity: "How artificial intelligence could guide drug discovery"

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in CNBC: "Why Canada is becoming a start-up mecca rivaling Silicon Valley"

 

• • Professor Olivier Trescases and alumnus Kunal Phalpher in CBC: "As electric vehicles age, here's how the batteries are finding a second life"

 

 

October 2019

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi in BetaKit: "Modiface, Shoppers Drug Mart Partnering On Virtual Makeup Service"

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in Scientific Computing World: "Deep Genomics discovers therapeutic candidate through its AI platform"

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in Forbes: "The Rise of the Deep: Eric Topol's Deep Medicine To Stand The Test Of Time"

 

 

September 2019

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in News-Medical.Net: "'A new era of drug discovery': Company develops drug using AI"

 

• • Professor Olivier Trescases in CBC: "Autoworkers at GM's Oshawa plant ask feds for more than $1B to build electric vehicles"

 

• • Alumnus Rami Rahim in Thrive Global: "Five things you should do to create a fantastic work culture", With Rami Rahim, CEO of Juniper Networks"

 

• • Professor Olivier Trescases in Global News: "Why people don't buy electric cars...yet"

 

 

August 2019

 

• • Alumnus Allen Lau in BNN Bloomberg: "'Don't waste time': This summer job taught Wattpad's CEO how to innovate"

 

• • Alumnus Howard Tam in The Toronto Star: "Dragon Centre was a catalyst for Scarborough's Chinese community, but the history is not all rosy"

 

 

July 2019

 

• • Alumnus John Macdonald in Financial Post: "AI revolution brewing in property business promises to make buildings greener and cheaper to operate"

 

 

June 2019

 

• • Professor Olivier Trescases in CBC Quirks & Quarks: "Do electric cars take more CO2 to build than they save?"

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in Bio-IT World: "Deep Genomics Identifies Rare Disease Targets Using AI System"

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi in VentureBeat: "Amazon and L'Oréal let you digitally try on makeup"

 

 

May 2019

 

• • Professor Ted Sargent in People Matters: "Professor Edward (Ted) Sargent on fostering innovation through research"

 

• • Professor Olivier Trescases in The Globe and Mail: "Regen braking lets you charge up while slowing down"

 

 

April 2019

 

• • Professors Peter Lehn and Olivier Trescases in Global  News: "Worried about the climate and carbon taxes? What to know about Ottawa's new electric-vehicle incentive"

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in National Post: "'Filling in the missing pieces': How AI is transforming drug discovery, development and innovation"

 

 

January 2019

 

• • Alumnus Somen Mondal in The Verge: "The Next Frontier in Hiring is AI-Driven"

 

• • Alumnus Allen Lau in The New York Times: "Wattpad, the Storytelling App, Will Launch a Publishing Division"

 

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December 2018

 

• • Professor Natalie Enright Jerger in Gizmodo: "How Chip Makers Are Circumventing Moore's Law to Build Super-Fast CPUs of Tomorrow"

 

• • Post-doctoral fellows Cao Thang Dinh and Pelayo Garcia de Arquer and Professor Ted Sargent in Chemistry World: "Foam catalyst performs hydrogen evolution in neutral conditions"

 

• • Professor Ted Sargent in Science Daily: "Low-cost catalyst boosts hydrogen production from water"

 

 

November 2018

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi in BetaKit: "Modiface launches first app after L'Oreal acquisition"

 

• • Professor Steve Mann in The Varsity: "Steve Mann on Inventrepreneurship and the 'tree-shaped person'"

 

• • ECE alumni in The Varsity: "U of T startup wants to take pain out of parking"

 

 

October 2018

 

• • Professor Olivier Trescases in The Globe and Mail: "'Mild hybrids' amp up the battery voltage"

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in The New York Times: "From Agriculture to Art - the A.I. Wave Sweeps In"

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi in TechCrunch: "Being bullish on AR - to a point"

 

• • ECE Department in The Varsity: "U of T, Huawei extend multimillion-dollar research partnership by five years"

 

 

September 2018

 

• • Professor David Lie in CBC News: "Who has your data? Researchers scrutinize apps for undisclosed ties to advertisers, analytics companies"

 

• • Alumnus Carlo Perez in The Globe and Mail: "If digital health care were a patient, it would need a shot in the arm"

 

 

August 2018

 

• • Alumnus Rami Rahim in The Financial Post: "Billions of robots and sensors are coming, and it's going to change the internet"

 

 

July 2018

 

• • ECE student Yuhao Zhou in Phys.Org: "Researchers use AI to add 4-D effects to movies"

 

• • Professor Shahrokh Valaee and ECE student Hojjat Salehinejad in Phys.Org: "Training artificial intelligence with artificial X-rays"

 

 

June 2018

 

• • ECE Alumnus Eman Hammad on CBC Metro Morning: "PhD graduate shares her story of perseverance"

 

• • Several ECE Alumni in BetaKit: "Here's Canada's Developer 30 under 30 List"

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi in The Globe and Mail: "This Canadian tech company is revolutionizing the way we buy beauty products"

 

• • ECE student Joey Bose in CBC News: "U of T researchers develop a 'privacy filter' that jams facial recognition software"

 

• • Alumnus Ted Jin in Forbes: "This Start-Up Just Made Good Oral Hygiene As Sweet As Long Island Iced Tea"

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi in Forbes: "AI Researchers Create 'Privacy Filter' That Disrupts Facial Recognition Technology"

 

 

May 2018

 

• • Professor George Eleftheriades in U of T Magazine: "A Way to Make Things Disappear"

 

• • Professor Olivier Trescases in The Globe and Mail: "How car tech is transferred to the high seas"

 

• • ECE student Zachary Kroeze in CBC News: "These U of T students are 'pioneering' the autonomous vehicle of tomorrow"

 

 

April 2018

 

• • Alumna Elsie MacGill in Cosmos: "This week in science history: The world's first female aircraft engineer is born"

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi in Wired: "How Coders are fighting bias in facial recognition software."

 

 

March 2018

 

• • Professor Alberto Leon-Garcia in CBC News: "Super-fast, next-generation 5G wireless to get $200M research boost from governments"

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi in The Globe and Mail: "L'Oreal buys Toronto augmented reality startup ModiFace"

 

 

February 2018

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi in Inside Jersey: "Make believe make up"

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi in TechRepublic: "How Sephora is leveraging AR and AI to transform retail and help customers buy cosmetics"

 

 

January 2018

 

• • ECE students Phil De Luna and Rafael Quintero-Bermudez in Global News: "CLS research could help recycle CO2 into plastic"

 

• • Alumnus Anthony Lacavera on CBC's The Current: "Canada can't settle for bronze in business, says WIND Mobile founder"

 

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December 2017

 

• • Professor Deepa Kundur in Maclean's: "How engineers are engineering change on the gender gap"

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in Futurism: "Google Released an AI That Analyzes Your Genome"

 

• • Professor Ted Sargent in Nature: "Use machine learning to find energy materials"

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in MIT Technology Review: "Google Has Released an AI Tool That Makes Sense of Your Genome"

 

 

November 2017

 

• • Alumnus Dongjun Wang in CBC News: "'Cult-like worshippers' turn Canadian-invented Instant Pot into a phenomenon"

 

• • Alumnus Karl Martin in The Globe and Mail: "Development program helps entrepreneurs take that Next step"

 

 

October 2017

 

• • ECE department and Professor Steve Mann in Popular Mechanics: "The Top Science and Tech Colleges"

 

 

September 2017

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in BetaKit: "Toronto-based Deep Genomics raises $16 million from Khosla Ventures"

 

• • Alumnus Rami Rahim in Forbes: "Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim Brings Startup Mentality To Running $5 Billion Business"

 

• • Professor Glenn Gulak and Alumnus Alhassan Khedr in IT in Canada Online: "U of T's ONRamp aims to give Ontario startups a leg up" 

 

• • Alumni John Paul Morgan and Nicholas Burgwin in The Toronto Star: "Canada's cleantech industry is having a back-to-the-future moment"

 

 

August 2017

 

• • Alumna Foteini Agrafioti on BNN: "Canada's Next Leaders: Invest in AI ecosystem to halt the brain drain"

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in The Telegraph: "Inside the AI healthcare revolution: meeting the robots that can detect Alzheimer's and depression"

 

• • Professor Ted Sargent in BrainGainMag: "What it takes to study nanotechnology: Q&A with Prof. Ted Sargent"

 

• • ECE PhD candidate Herman Wong in the Montreal Gazette: "Solar eclipse: Montrealers urged to take the right precautions"

 

 

July 2017

 

• • Alumna Julie Payette in The Globe and Mail: "Julie Payette: Engineer, musician, astronaut and now, governor-general"

 

 

June 2017

 

• • Alumnus Tony Han in CBC News: "Electric pickup truck developed by U of T grad on display in Markham"

 

• • Alumnus Sandro Young on CBC Metro Morning: "Top U of T Student headed to Google"

 

• • Alumnus Sandro Young in CBC News: "Want a job at Google? Get the highest grades at U of T like Sandro Young"

 

• • Alumnus Sandro Young on BNN: "Google taps University of Toronto students for machine learning gig at its HQ"

 

• • Professor Amr Helmy in CBC News: "'Hack-proof' quantum internet networks closer to reality, studies say"

 

 

May 2017

 

• • Professor Deepa Kundur in The Globe and Mail: 'WannaCry': Will cyberattacks continue to get worse?

 

 

April 2017

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in The New York Times: "Canada Tries to Turn Its A.I. Ideas Into Dollars"

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in The Globe and Mail: "His unborn child's genetic problem launched his business"

 

 

March 2017

 

• • Alumnus Allen Lau in CNBC: "A booming start-up center north of the border is rivaling Silicon Valley"

 

 

January 2017

 

• • Professor Amr Helmy in CBC News: New Canadian quantum computer called twice as powerful as last one, but what does that mean?

 

• • Professor Brendan Frey in the Financial Post: "Generation AI: Canada's early start in artificial intelligence set it up to be today's global powerhouse"

 

• • Professor Parham Aarabi in FastMoving: "How technology is making retail more human"

 

• • ECE Alumnus Gimmy Chu in ChinaDaily Asia: "Saving energy with a multi-tinged switch"