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Using AI to combat invasive species

​I was fortunate to work with Mark Lewis and Yanyu Xiao on a project that showed how AI techniques could help manage invasive species​......

"Hello World" ... almost ...

Back in Oct 2017, I had the pleasure of chatting for over 3 hours with Ashlee Vance, the host of Bloomberg's fascinating "Hello World"...

Interviewed by AI Trends!

I was honored to be interviewed by AI Trends - published on 14/Aug/2018; check out article.

Invited Presentation!

I was honored to give a plenary presentation at the Machine Learning for HealthCare conference (2018.08.17), on "Working with Medical...

Predicting Chemical Reactions!

My colleagues and I just published CypReact, the first tool for automatically predicting whether a given molecule will react with a...

Interview In Folio

How AI is revolutionizing medical science. Read the interview here! #folio #interview

Mention in Folio!

How artificial intelligence is reshaping our lives. Read the article here. #folio #mention

Quoted in MacLean's

Is Canada ready for the radical change artificial intelligence will unleash? I was quoted in this article from MacLean's magazine! #quote...

Tied for 1st in subchallenge

At the Prostate Cancer DREAM Challenge. Over 50 teams, from around the world, competed in the Prostate Cancer DREAM Challenge, to...

A way to diagnose schizophrenia!

Our team (led by Mina Gheiratmand [UofA] and Irina Rish [IBM]) just published an article (in Nature Schizophrenia) describing a way to...

Mentioned in CBC Article

In the midst of all of the well-deserved excitment about DeepMind Alberta, I was honored to be (briefly) in a CBC article! See the...

Quoted in TorStar

I was quoted in the Toronto Star on May 9, 2016 on how Artificial Intelligence could transform the medical world! See the article here....

Graduate Student Awarded Fellowship

One of my graduate students, Junfeng Wen, was awarded the prestigious AI-TF Fellowship in 2016! Good work, Junfeng. #awards #students

Quoted in Faculty of Science Newsletter

I was recently quoted in the Faculty of Science newsletter in the article Statisticians step up to aid neurological health research. Read...

HQP Accomplishments (2015)

I had numerous HQP Accomplishments, along with my students this year. They were: Junfeng Wen: selected as a runner-up for this year's CS...

Computational Psychiatry on Global TV

Recently, the new Computational Psychiatry direction was mentioned and presented on Global News! See it here. #news #globaltv #psychiatry

fMRI project included in IBM collaboration

Our fMRI project was recently included as an example of the University of Alberta's collaboration with IBM CAS. See the press release...

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