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Ingenuity Labs Research Institute

We are an interdisciplinary initiative at Queen’s University focused on combining Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Human Machine Interaction to create future intelligent systems and robotic machines that enhance human productivity, safety, performance, and quality of life.

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Amy Wu recipient of Rapid Response Competition Funding

The Rapid Response competition and support research projects that contributed to the development, testing, and implementation of medical or social countermeasures to mitigate the rapid spread of COVID-19. Dr. Amy Wu was one of thirteen applicants who received funding in the first round. Read the article in the Queen’s Gazette. Amy Wu (Mechanical and Materials Engineering) – Designing, …

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Natural Language Processing Research Papers: Hui Liu and Zhan Shi

Congratulations to Hui Liu and Zhan Shi for having their papers accepted for publishing. This is Hui Lui’s first paper of his Ph.D. career. Both Student Researchers are supervised by Dr. Xiaodan Zhu. End-to-End Transition-Based Online Dialogue Disentanglement Hui Liu, Zhan Shi, Jiachen Gu, Quan Liu, Si Wei, and Xiaodan Zhu. 2020.Proceedings of the 29th International …

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NSERC Canadian Robotics Network’s (NCRN) Annual General Meeting

Story by Naveena Pandillapally, Master’s Candidate I recently took part in the second Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the NSERC Canadian Robotics Network (NCRN), which was held virtually on May 7th and 8th. The AGM was originally planned to be a week-long in-person event in Waterloo, ON, with two days dedicated to informative presentations from …

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Research @ Queen’s: Championing AI for social justice

Dr. Xiaodan Zhu from Ingenuity Labs is partnering with Dr. Samuel Dahan from the Queen’s Faculty of Law on an intelligent dispute resolution system that evens the playing field for self-represented litigants in employment, trademark, and personal injury disputes by offering them data-driven predictions, based on case law trends and negotiation data from thousands of …

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Podcast: Teaching Language to Computers with Dr. Xiaodan Zhu

Ingenuity Labs researcher Dr. Xiaodan Zhu discusses how his research at the frontier of artificial intelligence is helping computers better understand language, with wide ranging applications. This podcast was originally posted on the Research at Queen’s website: Teaching Language to Computers with Dr. Xiaodan Zhu

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Podcast: Helping Robots Learn to Walk with Dr. Amy Wu

Ingenuity Labs researcher Dr. Amy Wu discusses her research interests that include mechatronics, human biomechanics, and wearable and assistive devices. One of Dr. Wu’s projects, Rando the Robot, is a low-cost bipedal walking robot with an open-source mindset, to expand accessibility to and involvement in walking robot education and research. This podcast was originally posted …

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Meet Karen Rudie, Queen’s Engineering and Computing Professor

Karen Rudie is one of the Ingenuity Labs collaborative researchers. This video, originally featured in a news article from the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. The video is a great introduction to Karen and her work. Professor Rudie was also named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). That makes …

Chat with Student Researcher Jeremy Roy

Check out this video about Graduate Student Research Jeremy Roy and his work at Ingenuity Labs.