/ en /celebrates/four-u-t-researchers-awarded-alfred-p-sloan-fellowships <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Four 茄子直播 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">茄子直播 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 鈥渃reativity, innovation and research accomplishments鈥� 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 鈥渟ignificant contributions have advanced our field by making deep learning more efficient and reliable,鈥� 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 茄子直播 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. 鈥淭he physics is interesting, and the mathematics becomes very rich,鈥� 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 鈥渙ne of Canadian astronomy鈥檚 shining stars,鈥� 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 茄子直播 Mississauga, Sachdeva is cross-appointed to&nbsp;the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science's computer science department. 鈥淪ushant鈥檚 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,鈥� 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 茄子直播 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 鈥� 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 茄子直播 Scarborough鈥檚 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 茄子直播鈥檚 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鈥檚 $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>茄子直播 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