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2018 Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School
It’s no longer summer here in Canada, but we still can’t stop talking about the 2018 Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School! This past July, the Vector Institute partnered with...
View ArticleVector Awards Inaugural Scholarships in Artificial Intelligence, Second Round...
The Vector Institute is pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of the Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence. These awards recognize promising AI talent in Ontario and support the...
View ArticleVector Institute Offering Scholarships to Candidates Applying to AI Master’s...
The Vector Institute will award up to 115 scholarships to meritorious students who pursue a full-time AI-related master’s degree in the 2019-20 academic year. Scholarships will be awarded to students...
View ArticleVECTOR INSTITUTE WELCOMES NEW POSTGRADUATE AFFILIATES TO ITS GROWING RESEARCH...
March 25, 2019 The Vector Institute congratulates the newest members of its research community on being accepted into the 2019 Vector Institute Postgraduate Affiliate Program. Established in 2018, the...
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Researchers and professionals from coast to coast descend on Vector for first...
On Friday, February 22, 2019, the Vector Institute held its first-ever Research Symposium and Job Fair – one of the largest gatherings of machine learning talent across Canada. The one-day event...
View ArticleVector Institute Announces Second Cohort of Vector Scholarship in AI Recipients
700+ AI master’s students starting programs in 2019 are expected to graduate and enter Ontario’s workforce by 2021 The Vector Institute is pleased to announce that the 2019-20 Vector Scholarship in...
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AI community celebrates Dr. Geoffrey Hinton at Evolution of Deep Learning...
Geoffrey Hinton delivered his Turing Lecture to a crowd of researchers and professionals at the Vector Institute’s Evolution of Deep Learning Symposium on October 16th. International AI talent...
View ArticleVector hosts internship program for African machine learning students
From L-R: Vector Faculty Member Toniann Pitassi, Vector Interns Irene Kameni, Kobby Panford-Quainoo, Fadel Thior, Ines Birimahire, Aisha Alaagib, and Vector Graduate student Elliot Creager By Ian...
View ArticleVector Institute welcomes new 2020 postgraduate affiliates
Vector Institute is proud to announce the 2020 candidates for the Vector Institute Postgraduate Affiliate Program. This year’s cohort adds 22 talented researchers to Vector’s ever-growing research...
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Vector Scholarship in AI Announcement
Vector Institute Announces Third Round of Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence Recipients The Vector Institute is pleased to congratulate the third round of Vector Scholarship in Artificial...
View ArticleWith Vector, BMO trains a new leading-edge deep learning model for Finance –...
June 17, 2020 A simple maxim guides how the BMO AI Capabilities Team works: increased model performance is related directly to increased revenue and decreased costs and enhancing customers’ banking...
View ArticleVector researchers prep for ICML 2020
This year’s edition of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) will be a virtual one, running Sunday, July 13th through Saturday, July 18th. ICML is one of the world’s leading machine...
View ArticleVector Institute Establishes New AI Engineering Team to Ramp up Applied AI...
Vector Institute Establishes New AI Engineering Team to Ramp up Applied AI for Sponsors and Partners August 26, 2020 The Vector Institute is establishing an AI engineering team, comprising...
View ArticleResearchers and startups converge in Toronto AI ecosystem
Vector Faculty Member and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Graham Taylor is Next AI’s Academic Director By Ian Gormely October 19, 2020 Jennifer Arnold had enjoyed a successful two decade run in the financial and...
View ArticleVector research community preps for virtual NeurIPS 2020
By Ian Gormely November 27, 2020 Vector researchers are once again preparing for the premier machine learning conference, the 34th annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)....
View ArticleVector Institute Launches Program to Help SMEs Reduce Bias in AI
Designed for small-to-medium-sized businesses, the new “Bias in AI” program aims to deliver technical skills for reducing implicit and explicit bias in Natural Language Processing & Computer Vision...
View ArticleVector welcomes new researchers to Postgraduate Affiliate program
March 31, 2021 By Ian Gormely The Vector Institute is proud to announce the 2021 candidates for its Postgraduate Affiliate Program. The new cohort of 30 talented researchers is a combination of new and...
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Newest Vector AI scholarship recipients join growing talent pool in Ontario
May 10, 2021 Today, the Vector Institute announced the winners of the 2021-22 Vector Institute Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence (VSAI), 109 individuals who will join Ontario’s growing pool of...
View ArticleNew program aims to accelerate AI-fueled growth for small-and-medium-sized...
October 21, 2021 Tailored to the unique needs of Canada’s growth-oriented small-and-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), the Vector Institute has launched the FastLane program to deliver leading-edge AI...
View Article21 for 2021: the top Vector stories for the AI enthusiast
December 16, 2021 From fundamental research breakthroughs to helping Ontario businesses deploy AI into their organizations, Vector had a very busy year. The 21 stories below offer a brief, but...
View ArticleStudents win award at inaugural Introduction to Machine Learning course for...
By Ian Gormely April 26, 2022 As part of Vector Institute’s inaugural Introduction to Machine Learning (ML) for Black and Indigenous students, four Canadian post-secondary students were awarded Best...
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From no coding skills to AI-ready in three days: Introducing Vector’s Excel...
By Jonathan WoodsOctober 11, 2022 An exciting future for AI in healthcare is coming into focus. In Ontario hospitals, AI has already been used to predict emergency room admissions, automate nursing...
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