Amii is proud to announce to welcome three new Canada CIFAR AI Chairs, as well as the renewal of two of our existing Chairs, further strengthening our world-leading team of machine learning researchers.
The Canada CIFAR AI Chair program is a key part of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy that enables leading researchers to continue to pursue impactful research and advance fundamental AI science.
New Canada CIFAR AI Chairs
Terance Blaskovits
Jacob Terence (Terry) Blaskovits is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Alberta and an Amii fellow.
He works at the interface of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computational chemistry for the discovery of molecules and materials for energy, optical, and catalysis applications.
Quinn Lee
Dr. Quinn Lee is a Fellow at Amii and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, where he leads the Navigation and Memory Systems (NMS) lab.
Leveraging his expertise in theoretical systems and behavioural neuroscience, he aims to innovate brain-inspired approaches for intelligent systems that learn adaptive and efficient representations, developing a better understanding how the brain organizes space, memory, and experience.
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Angelica Lim
Dr. Angelica Lim is an Assistant Professor in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University and leads the Rosie Lab, which researches how to build artificial intelligence for robots to interact with social intelligence and empathy.
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Renewed Canada CIFAR AI Chairs
Matthew Taylor
Matt Taylor is a Fellow at Amii and a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. He is the Director of the Intelligent Robot Learning Lab and a Principal Investigator at the Reinforcement Learning & Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Taylor focuses his research on developing intelligent agents, physical or virtual entities that interact with their environments. Additionally, he is interested in exploring how agents can learn from humans, whether the human is explicitly teaching the agent, the agent is passively observing the human, or the agent is actively cooperating with the human on a task.
Mo Chen
Mo is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. He also directs the Multi-Agent Robotic Systems Lab at SFU and is a Distal Fellow of the NSERC Canadian Robotics Network.
Chen’s research centers around developing algorithms that allow robots to interact closely with humans in a safe and natural manner.
