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Whether it’s pushing boundaries in science, helping companies strategically adopt AI or building individuals’ AI capabilities, there’s always something happening at Amii.

Whether it’s pushing boundaries in science, helping companies strategically adopt AI or building individuals’ AI capabilities, there’s always something happening at Amii.
Nov 23rd 2022
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Amii researchers present their work in the fields of reinforcement learning, natural language processing, data optimization and more at the 2022 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
Nov 21st 2022
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The position will help develop tools that apply statistical analysis and machine learning to determine a characteristic structure within multiple early warning signals driven by a disease outbreak.
Nov 16th 2022
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On Sept. 2, Robert Paproski — CTO of Nanostics — presented "Lessons Learned Developing Predictive Models for Healthcare" at the AI Seminar.
Nov 10th 2022
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On August 26, Puyuan Liu — an MSc student from the University of Alberta — presented "Non-Autoregressive Unsupervised Summarization with Length-Control Algorithms" at the AI Seminar.
Nov 2nd 2022
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On August 19, Alex Murphy — a Ph.D. student from the University of Birmingham — presented "Brain + NLP > NLP? Towards the incorporation of human brain data into Natural Language Processing" at the AI Seminar.
Nov 1st 2022
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The October 2022 edition of AI Meetup focused on the legal applications of AI, feat. Amii Fellow Randy Goebel & Brett Colvin of Goodlawyer.
Oct 31st 2022
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Learn about the latest advances in computer vision and how they might help AI function in the real world with Machine Learning Resident Tina Behrouzi. She dives into the advances offered by knowledge distillation and continual learning.
Oct 27th 2022
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Amii welcomes Linglong Kong as one of the newest Canada CIFAR AI Chairs. Learn more about the impact his research is having on the world of AI.
Oct 26th 2022
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On August 12, Sriram Ganapathi Subramanian, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Vector Institute, presented "Decentralized Mean Field Games" at the AI Seminar.
Oct 19th 2022
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On Aug 5, Kim Solez – Professor of Pathology in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta – presented "How AI can improve human cooperation through suggesting followup action in modelled newscasts" at the AI Seminar.
Oct 18th 2022
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This month, we look forward to TechAid, connecting the tech community and supporting some great local causes.
Oct 12th 2022
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The September 2022 edition of AI Meetup highlighted two projects featured in Amii’s annual Impact Report, hosted by CEO Cam Linke.
Oct 11th 2022
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Understanding intelligence could be one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time, according to Amii Chief Scientific Advisor Rich Sutton. And he lays out the Alberta Plan as a roadmap to getting there.
Oct 6th 2022
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On July 22nd, Bradley Hauer – a pHD candidate at the University of Alberta – presented "Lexical Semantics: Why Theory Matter" at the AI Seminar.
Oct 6th 2022
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On July 22nd, Bradley Hauer – a pHD candidate at the University of Alberta – presented "Lexical Semantics: Why Theory Matter" at the AI Seminar.
Sep 29th 2022
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Alberta's tech sector needs workers. And its tech students need jobs. Technology Alberta's Gail Powley talks about how the Alberta FIRST Jobs Program found great success connecting the two.
Sep 28th 2022
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On July 15, Decebal Constantin Mocanu and Elena Mocanu, both with the University of Twente, presented "Sparse training in supervised, unsupervised, and deep reinforcement learning" at the AI Seminar.
Sep 21st 2022
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Learn about the latest advances in computer vision and how they might help AI function in the real world with Machine Learning Resident Tina Behrouzi. She looks at some of the exciting projects from this summer's Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference
Sep 21st 2022
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Learn about the latest advances in computer vision and how they might help AI function in the real world with Machine Learning Resident Tina Behrouzi. She looks at some of the exciting projects from this summer's Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference
Sep 15th 2022
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Following on major successes this year with AI Week and the renewal of the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy, Amii has released our 2021-22 Impact Report.
Sep 9th 2022
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On June 17, 2022, Dustin Morrill, PhD student at the University of Alberta, presented "Hindsight Rational Learning for Sequential Decision-Making," at the AI Seminar.
Sep 8th 2022
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Learn from top experts, connect with like-minded individuals & give back to local causes. Tickets are now available for TechAid, a series of AI & tech-focused events.
Aug 31st 2022
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On June 10, 2022, Russ Greiner, Amii Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair, presented "Learning Models that Predict Objective, Actionable Labels," at the AI Seminar.
Aug 30th 2022
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Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Nidhi Hegde and other experts discuss how to approach AI responsibly as it becomes a part of our everyday lives.
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