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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.
Mar 3rd 2022
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On March 18, Amir Hossein, a Ph. D. student at the Unversity of Alberta – presented "GPEX, A Framework For Interpreting Artificial Neural Networks" at the AI Seminar.
Mar 3rd 2022
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On March 18, Amir Hossein, a Ph. D. student at the Unversity of Alberta – presented "GPEX, A Framework For Interpreting Artificial Neural Networks" at the AI Seminar.
Mar 3rd 2022
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On April 22, Elham Parhizkar presented "Efficient and Robust Methods for Computing Trust in Multi-Agent Systems" at the AI Seminar.
Mar 3rd 2022
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On Dec. 23, Ning Shi, a PhD student at the University of Alberta, presented "Cognitively Inspired Natural Language Processing" at the AI Seminar.
Mar 3rd 2022
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On April 22, Elham Parhizkar presented "Efficient and Robust Methods for Computing Trust in Multi-Agent Systems" at the AI Seminar.
Mar 3rd 2022
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n July 8, 2022, Ali Zamani, computer science MSc at the University of Alberta, presented "Developing a Mental Health Virtual Assistance (Chatbot) for Healthcare Workers" at the AI Seminar.
Feb 23rd 2022
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On Feb. 23rd, Yi Wan – a Master's student in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta – presented "Towards Adaptive Model-Based Reinforcement Learning" at the AI Seminar.
Feb 17th 2022
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In anticipation of AI Week, May 24 - 27, 2022, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) announced the first $100,000 in travel bursaries for emerging researchers and applied artificial intelligence (AI) professionals globally. The Global Talent Bursary program will facilitate upwards of 500 guests to attend AI Week in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Feb 16th 2022
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On Feb. 11, Richard S. Sutton presented “The Increasing Role of Sensorimotor Experience in Artificial Intelligence” at the AI Seminar.
Feb 10th 2022
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Read the Amii and Microsoft white paper, the AI Skill Gap, which sets out to uncover: what skills gaps must be addressed toward AI adoption across sectors to speed Alberta's recovery from economic downturn?
Jan 24th 2022
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On Dec. 10 2021, Geoffrey Shmigelsky, co-founder of OneCupAI, presented “Commercialization & Using AI in Livestock ID and Monitoring” at the AI Seminar.
Jan 21st 2022
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On Jan 21, Binghshan Hu – an Amii Postdoctoral Fellow– presented "(Near)-optimal Regret Bound for Differentially Private Thompson Sampling" at the AI Seminar.
Jan 12th 2022
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On November 26, 2021, Chris Ceroici from PulseMedica presented "Annotation-Free Disease Detection in the Retina" at the AI Seminar.
Jan 6th 2022
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Amii has announced scholarships applications for the Winter 2022 cohort of the 9-week, live online ML Technician Certification course.
Dec 13th 2021
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On Nov. 19, Hamsa Bastani presented "Efficient and targeted COVID-19 border testing via reinforcement learning" at the AI Seminar
Dec 2nd 2021
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On November 12, 2021, Chenjun Xiao of Google Brain presented “On the Optimality of Batch Policy Optimization Algorithms” at the AI Seminar.
Dec 2nd 2021
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Amii has launched applications for the Winter 2022 cohort of the 9-week, live online ML Technician Certification course.
Dec 1st 2021
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Media Release: The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) has announced plans for the inaugural AI Week presented by Amii, a four-day celebration of Alberta’s 20-year history of excellence in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
Nov 30th 2021
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Amii is proud to share the work of our researchers that will be presented at the thirty-fifth annual Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference, held online from December 6 - 14, 2021.
Nov 10th 2021
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On November 5, 2021, Aditya Khosla of PathAI presented “AI for Pathology” at the AI Seminar.
Nov 5th 2021
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On October 22, Jacob Jaremko presented “ Starting Up from Academia” at the AI Seminar.
Nov 3rd 2021
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On October 15, Daniel Brown presented “Efficient and Robust Learning of Human Intent" at the AI Seminar.
Oct 27th 2021
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On October 1, Tyler Hanson & Nolan McMahon presented “Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Advertising- An Overview from Local AdTech Company LoKnow Inc.” at the AI Seminar.
Oct 22nd 2021
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On September 17, Marcus Brubaker presented “Normalizing Flows in Theory and Practice" at the AI Seminar.
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