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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.
Apr 1st 2021
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On March 12, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor at the Computing Science & Engineering Department at the University of California San Diego, presented “New Case-Studies in Inferential and Differential Privacy.”
Mar 23rd 2021
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The AI CoE is collaborating with Answer ALS and EverythingALS to launch an initiative called the End ALS Challenge, with the support of ALS Society of Canada, Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) and NetraMark Corp. The goal is to surface insights through an open data competition that connects the global AI and neuroscience communities to better understand the overall biology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and improve diagnosis and drug discovery for ALS patients.
Mar 15th 2021
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On February 26, Dr. Kiri L. Wagstaff (NASA) presented “Autonomous Novelty-Based Exploration of Mars.”
Mar 3rd 2021
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Join our team! Amii is hiring a Machine Learning Intern with a strong knowledge of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and ML for a Summer 2021 opportunity!
Feb 23rd 2021
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On January 28, Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii Michael Bowling (Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta) presented "Hindsight Rationality: Alternatives to Nash" as the inaugural talk in the COMARL Seminar Series.
Feb 23rd 2021
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Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii Russ Greiner (Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta) made media headlines after recently co-publishing research that highlights the development of an artificial intelligence tool to predict schizophrenia by analyzing brain scans.
Feb 22nd 2021
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On February 19, 2021, Amii Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair Csaba Szepesvári presented "Hardness of MDP planning with linear function approximation".
Feb 5th 2021
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Jan 29th 2021
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Michael Bowling, Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii, was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Also a Professor at the University of Alberta, Bowling is recognized for his contributions and leadership in the field of AI, including his work producing theoretical advancements in the world of imperfect (or hidden) information games and for playing an instrumental role in establishing the field of deep reinforcement learning.
Jan 29th 2021
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On January 22, 2021, DeepMind Alberta research scientist Marlos C. Machado presented on autonomous navigation of stratospheric balloons using reinforcement learning.
Jan 28th 2021
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Amii is proud to share the work of our researchers being featured at the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, running online this year from February 2 to 9.
Jan 22nd 2021
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Amii has teamed up with Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) to make available a new dataset for machine learning researchers and practitioners for modelling movement of the Canadarm3 on the Lunar Gateway. This marks the first public dataset produced by MDA’s Training AI Laboratory (TRAIL).
Jan 22nd 2021
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On Jan 8, 2021, UAlberta Professor Finlay McAlister presented "Alberta Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research Support Unit - Health Research Opportunities for Computer Scientists".
Jan 19th 2021
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As part of the January 2021 AICan, Amii is pleased to welcome 15 new Canada CIFAR AI Chairs into our research community.
Jan 14th 2021
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On Jan 8, 2021, Simon Fraser University Assistant Professor Mo Chen presented "Optimal Control and Machine Learning in Robotics".
Dec 18th 2020
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On Dec 4, 2020, professor at Duke University Cynthia Rudin presented “Simpler Models Exist and How Can We Find Them?”
Dec 14th 2020
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On Nov 27, 2020, research scientist at Google Brain (Montreal) and Amii alumnus Marlos C. Machado presented “An operator view of policy gradient methods”
Dec 9th 2020
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Join our team! Amii is hiring a Machine Learning Scientist to direct the research and development efforts of Amii Industry Partners and Clients.
Dec 8th 2020
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On Nov 20, 2020, University of Lille researcher Emilie Kaufmann presented on learning good policies with and without rewards.
Nov 30th 2020
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Amii is proud to share the efforts and achievements of our researchers at the 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), running online this year Dec 6 - 12.
Nov 26th 2020
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Join our team! Amii is hiring a Program Scientist to support industry partners in development of a pilot project for reducing emissions in the energy industry.
Nov 23rd 2020
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Masaf Dawood & Sindhu Adini from SpringML and Chloe Tottem from Google Cloud presented “Compute and Data at Your Fingertips” at the AI Seminar on Nov 13, 2020.
Nov 9th 2020
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Amii commends the involvement of our researchers in this year’s conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), taking place November 16-20.
Nov 5th 2020
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Now that the 2020 Tea Time Talks are on Youtube, you can always have time for tea with Amii and the RLAI Lab! Watch week twelve videos now.
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