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Left to right: Vishweswar Eswaran (Year 1 ElecE), Maansi Suri (Year 1 MechE) and Angel Rajotia (Year 1 EngSci) are this year’s Pearson Scholars from U of T Engineering. (Photos submitted)

‘High energy and optimism’: International Pearson Scholars start at U of T Engineering

October 19, 2021

Professor Bruno Korst has joined the ECE Department. In his teaching, he aims to to encourage and guide students' curiosity and to present theory in a way that enables them to easily make connections to its application. (Photo courtesy: Bruno Korst)

ECE welcomes new faculty member Professor Bruno Korst

October 13, 2021

Left to right: Nelson Lee and Ethan Hugh (both Year 2 CompE) are the founders of Haven. (Photo: Lumuat Dinder)

Student-built Haven app aims to help prevent sexual assault

October 8, 2021

U of T alumnus Lyndon Chan hopes to boost political engagement with Parlawatch, an online tool that scrapes official transcripts from Question Period and uses natural language processing to generate daily summaries. (Photo courtesy of Lyndon Chan)

Startup led by U of T alumni uses AI to help Canadians track parliamentary proceedings

September 29, 2021

ECE Professor George Eleftheriades achieved a practical mechanism for ‘full-duplex nonreciprocity,’ a property in metamaterials that allows for manipulation of both incoming and reflective beams of light. (Photo: Matthew Tierney)

New metamaterial with unusual reflective property could boost your WiFi signal

September 22, 2021

Professor Xilin Liu advances the technologies of integrated circuits and machine learning to help modulate brain networks for applications in health care, such as relieving or suppressing neurological disorders and conditions. (Photo: Jaxson Batter)

ECE welcomes new faculty member Professor Xilin Liu

September 15, 2021

Mail Ali (ECE PhD candidate). (Photo courtesy Mai Ali)

IBET Momentum Fellow Mai Ali designs autonomously powered sensors for health care

September 12, 2021

Professor Li Qian (ECE), shown in her lab pre-pandemic, is part of a research team that proposed a new quantum fingerprinting protocol, which is used to quickly and securely identify whether information from two sources is the same. (Photo: Don Figer)

Quantum ‘fingerprints’ made smaller and delivered faster

August 25, 2021

Professors Lisa Austin (Faculty of Law) and David Lie (ECE) are part of a multidisciplinary team behind a new global study that explores the privacy expectations and behaviour of smartphone users. (Photo by Jessica MacInnis, before pandemic)

Privacy study sheds light on why we ‘grant’ or ‘deny’ app requests

July 27, 2021

Shengxiang Ji will join Intel, where he completed his PEY Co-op, as a software developer engineer later this summer. (Photo supplied)

ECE undergraduate student receives Governor General’s Silver Medal

July 5, 2021

ECE Professor Parham Aarabi is one of a group of AI experts behind HALT AI, a U of T service that tests for bias in AI systems across a variety of diversity dimensions, such as gender, age and race. (Photo: Johnny Guatto)

New U of T initiative to assess bias in AI systems

June 24, 2021

The 2021 “Grads to Watch” include Dana Kokoska (ECE 2T0 + PEY) and Adam Gierlach (ECE 2T0 + PEY). The 14 chosen grads embody the spirit of U of T Engineering and the creativity, innovation and global impact that define our community. (Kokoska photo submitted; Gierlach photo by John Gierlach (ECE 8T6))

U of T Engineering Grads to Watch 2021

June 23, 2021