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March 2022
- Alumnus Carlo Perez in Fierce Healthcare: "Digital wound care tech company Swift Medical rolls out new imaging device"
- Professor Olivier Trescases in The Toronto Star: "With gas prices spiking, is Canada finally ready to start buying electric cars?" (paywall)
- Professor Parham Aarabi of HALT AI in BetaKit: "U of T spinout HALT AI launches tool to measure brands' diversity across social media"
February 2022
- Professor Andreas Veneris in PYMNTS: "Canada Has a Contingency Plan for a CBDC, but May Not Use It Yet" (article + video interview)
- Alumnus Allen Lau in The Financial Post: "There is life after exit for Canadian startups" (paywall)
January 2022
- Alumna Narinder Dhami in The Toronto Star: "It’s time to invest capital in currently undervalued diverse businesses" (article author, paywall)
- Professor Olivier Trescases in The Toronto Star: "New prototype designs unveiled for Project Arrow — the first all-Canadian electric vehicle" (paywall)
- Professor Olivier Trescases in CBC News: "Effort to boost electric vehicle charging stations in GTHA gets $2M in new federal funding"
- Professor Brendan Frey in The Boston Globe: "In the region’s booming biotech industry, workers are in short supply"
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)
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?"