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Right to left: Professor Wai Tung Ng, Jingshu Yu, and ISPSD 2018 General Chair John Shen

ECE Awards Round Up: August 2018

August 17, 2018

Professor Deepa Kundur (ECE, at centre) is one of 11 U of T Engineering researchers receiving investment from NSERC’s Strategic Partnership Grants program. Strategic Project Grants support researchers working alongside policy makers and Canadian companies to generate new technology. (Credit: Neil Ta)

ECE research projects receive $2.8 million in NSERC funding

August 14, 2018

Mona Gridseth (left, UTIAS PhD candidate) and Keenan Burnett (EngSci 1T6+PEY, UTIAS MASc candidate) work on Zeus, a self-driving vehicle that recently took the top prize at the first competition of the three-year AutoDrive Challenge™. U of T Engineering’s new Engineering Science major in Machine Intelligence launches this September. It joins an MEng emphasis in Analytics that began January 2018. (Credit: Laura Pedersen)

U of T Engineering launches Canada’s first engineering undergraduate program in Machine Intelligence

July 26, 2018

Professor Veneris stands with graduate students at a whiteboard.

ECE-led project gets $250,000 funding injection from Connaught Fund

July 20, 2018

Building the computing engines that will power the machine learning revolution

July 19, 2018

Quantum dot conference closing ceremonies

Sargent chairs 2018 Quantum Dot conference

July 9, 2018

Machine learning chest X-rays

Training artificial intelligence with artificial X-rays

July 6, 2018

Drummers on the end of a dragon boat

Iron Dragons take on the world

July 4, 2018

A speaker at the HEART conference delivers a presentation in front of the audience.

ECE hosts the 9th International Symposium on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies

June 27, 2018

Professor Frank Kschischang

ECE professor, alumna and student recognized by the Canadian Academy of Engineering

June 18, 2018

Donors Lauri and Jean Hiivala stand outside the Sandford Fleming Building at the University of Toronto

ECE donors follow their hearts

June 8, 2018

Researchers in U of T Engineering have designed a ‘privacy filter’ that disrupts facial recognition algorithms. The system relies on two AI-created algorithms: one performing continuous face detection, and another designed to disrupt the first. (Credit: Avishek Bose)

ECE AI researchers design ‘privacy filter’ for your photos that disables facial recognition systems

May 31, 2018