/ en /celebrates/four-u-t-researchers-awarded-alfred-p-sloan-fellowships <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Four °µÍřTV researchers awarded Alfred P. Sloan Fellowships&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-02-24T13:15:25-05:00" title="Friday, February 24, 2023 - 13:15" class="datetime">Fri, 02/24/2023 - 13:15</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/mississauga" hreflang="en">Mississauga</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/sloan-research-fellowships" hreflang="en">Sloan Research Fellowships</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-computer-and-mathematical-sciences" hreflang="en">Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/u-t-mississauga" hreflang="en">°µÍřTV Mississauga</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-computer-science" hreflang="en">Department of Computer Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/david-dunlap-department-astronomy-astrophysics" hreflang="en">David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/sloan-fellowship.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(L-R) Duncan Dauvergne, Jimmy Ba, Sushant Sachdeva and Maria Drout (photos supplied)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p style="margin-bottom:15px"><b>Jimmy Ba</b>, <b>Duncan Dauvergne</b>, <b>Maria Drout</b> and <b>Sushant Sachdeva</b> have been <a href="https://sloan.org/storage/app/media/files/press_releases/Announcing-the-2023-Sloan-Research-Fellows.pdf">named 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows</a> in recognition of their “creativity, innovation and research accomplishments” in the fields of computer science, mathematics and physics.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:15px">Ba is an assistant professor in the department of computer science in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Arts &amp; Science and a member of <a href="https://vectorinstitute.ai/">the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence</a>. He addresses some of the biggest challenges in training deep neural networks and his “significant contributions have advanced our field by making deep learning more efficient and reliable,” says Professor <b>Eyal de Lara</b>, chair of the department.</p> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><a href="https://web.cs.toronto.edu/news-events/news/sloan-research-fellowships-awarded-to-jimmy-ba-and-sushant-sachdeva">Read more about Ba</a></h3> <p style="margin-bottom:15px">Dauvergne, an assistant professor in the department of mathematics at °µÍřTV Mississauga, specializes in a broad class of problems that involve randomness and probability. He&nbsp;models phenomena such as the growth of crystals, the expansion of colonies of bacteria and the spread of wildfires. “The physics is interesting, and the mathematics becomes very rich,” Dauvergne says.</p> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><a href="https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/main-news/two-utm-professors-awarded-2023-sloan-research-fellowship">Read more about Dauvergne</a></h3> <p style="margin-bottom:15px"><span style="background:white">Drout,&nbsp;an assistant professor in the </span><a href="https://www.astro.utoronto.ca/"><span style="background:white">David A. Dunlap department of astronomy and astrophysics</span></a><span style="background:white"> and an associated faculty member at the </span><a href="http://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/"><span style="background:white">Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics</span></a>,<span style="background:white"> </span><span style="background:white"> is “one of Canadian astronomy’s shining stars,” says </span><a href="https://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/~bgaensler/">Professor <strong>Bryan Gaensler</strong></a>, director of the Dunlap Institute.<span style="background:white">&nbsp;Drout was awarded a fellowship in physics for her contribution to our understanding of the evolution, influence and fate of massive stars.&nbsp;</span></p> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><a href="http://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/drout-sloan-fellowship/"><span style="background:white">Read more about Drout</span></a></h3> <p style="margin-bottom:15px"><span style="background:white">An assistant professor in the department of mathematical and computational sciences at °µÍřTV Mississauga, Sachdeva is cross-appointed to&nbsp;the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science's computer science department. “Sushant’s breakthroughs on the problem of maximum flow have garnered much-deserved recognition in the field of theoretical computer science and opened the door to new applications and lines of inquiry,” de Lara says.&nbsp;</span></p> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><a href="https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/main-news/two-utm-professors-awarded-2023-sloan-research-fellowship"><span style="background:white">Read more about Sachdeva</span></a></h3> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><a href="https://sloan.org/fellowships/2023-Fellows">See the complete&nbsp;list of 2023 Fellows<b><i>&nbsp;</i></b></a></h3> <p style="margin-bottom:15px">&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:15:25 +0000 lanthierj 180211 at /celebrates/artificial-intelligence-researchers-named-cifar-ai-chairs <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Artificial Intelligence researchers named CIFAR AI Chairs</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2019-12-11T15:12:42-05:00" title="Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - 15:12" class="datetime">Wed, 12/11/2019 - 15:12</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/scarborough" hreflang="en">Scarborough</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/vector-institute" hreflang="en">Vector Institute</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-applied-science-engineering" hreflang="en">Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-computer-and-mathematical-sciences" hreflang="en">Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-computer-science" hreflang="en">Department of Computer Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/utias" hreflang="en">UTIAS</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/women-stem" hreflang="en">Women in STEM</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/2019-12-06-Anna%20Goldenberg.jpg" width="1140" height="760" alt="Portrait of Anna Goldenberg"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">Anna Goldenberg, one of eight °µÍřTV researchers to be named a CIFAR AI Chair, has developed a computer model that can predict a patient's oncoming heart attack (photo by Johnny Guatto)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Eight University of Toronto artificial intelligence researchers, all of whom are also faculty members at the Vector Institute, have been named CIFAR AI Chairs – a recognition of pioneering work in areas that could have global societal impact.&nbsp;</p> <p>They are:</p> <ul> <li><a href="/news/u-t-vector-institute-woo-rising-stars-machine-learning-field"><strong>Jakob Foerster</strong>, who will be an assistant professor</a> in °µÍřTV Scarborough’s department of computer and mathematical sciences in 2020</li> <li><strong>Animesh Garg</strong>, an assistant professor of computer science</li> <li><strong>Anna Goldenberg</strong>, an associate professor in the department of computer science and a scientist in the genetics and genome biology lab at SickKids Research Institute</li> <li><a href="/news/u-t-vector-institute-woo-rising-stars-machine-learning-field"><strong>Chris Maddison</strong>, who will be an assistant professor</a> in the departments of computer science and statistical sciences in 2020</li> <li><strong>Sheila McIlraith</strong>, a professor in the department of computer science</li> <li><strong>Gennady Pekhimenko</strong>, an assistant professor in computer science</li> <li><strong>Toniann Pitassi</strong>, a professor in computer science with a joint appointment in mathematics</li> <li><strong>Angela Schoellig</strong>,&nbsp;an assistant professor at °µÍřTV’s Institute for Aerospace Studies who leads its Dynamic Systems Lab</li> </ul> <p>The CIFAR AI Chairs each receive five years of dedicated funding and are a key part of the country’s $125-million Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy, which seeks to attract and retain the top minds in the field.</p> <h3><a href="/news/eight-u-t-artificial-intelligence-researchers-named-cifar-ai-chairs">Read the <em>°µÍřTV News </em>story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 11 Dec 2019 20:12:42 +0000 lanthierj 161246 at