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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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Queen’s Engineering researchers use AI, sensors to make new bridge “smart”

The Third Crossing development proved the perfect opportunity for a partnership between Ingenuity Labs and the City of Kingston. Dr. Joshua Woods, Ingenuity Labs Mitchell Professor and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, describes their efforts as technology development, where the end goal is to help the city monitor the bridge. “The …

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Student Researcher Rohan Bhambhoria receives funding from Lab2Market

L2M Toronto’s third cohort kicked off on September 13th, 2021 with 18 talented teams. Over the next four months they will embark on their entrepreneurial journeys to take their research to new beginnings. Through the L2M program, these researchers will learn world-leading methodologies and frameworks, and receive the support needed to bring their ideas to …

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Tenure-Track Positions at the Department of Electrical and Computing

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Queen’s University invites applications for two (2) tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor with specialization in a field related to robotics and/or mechatronics engineering, including, but not limited to, autonomous systems, machine learning and AI, intelligent …

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Xiaoyu Yang, Borealis AI 2021 Fellow

We are very proud to announce Xiaoyu Yang as one of the recipients of the Borealis AI 2021 Fellow. Xiaoyu is a PhD candidate working with researcher, Dr. Xiaodan Zhu, in the area of Natural language reasoning and incorporating external knowledge into neural networks. The Borealis AI Fellowship recipients, supported by Canada’s top researchers and …

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Dr. Xiaodan Zhu, Mitchell Professor, Text Analytics and Machine Learning

Better language algorithms mean better AI and better machines. Dr. Xiaodan Zhu is at the forefront of this movement. As announced in January 2021, the Mitchell Professors are five engineering researchers, funded by a gift from Bruce Mitchell, Sc’68, DSc’20, to explore the frontiers of how humanity and machines coexist. The Mitchell Professors reside in …

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Training computers to reason – watch Dr. Xiaodan Zhu’s talk at Vector Institute’s Friday Seminar Series

The Vector Institute Friday Seminar Series talk is about two problems: (1) how to perform reasoning between structured data (tables) and unstructured data (text), two major data we face daily; (2) how to integrate the benefit of two worlds: neural models and symbolic reasoning (here natural logic) for the task, to bring the power of …

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Dr. Il-Min Kim – Using Neural Networks as Mathematical Solvers

Check out this video about Ingenuity Labs researcher Dr. Il-Min Kim discussing the use of Neural networks as Mathematical Solvers. Dr. Kim also Director of the Wireless Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (WAI Lab).

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Dr. Sidney Givigi – Controlling Robots with your Mind

Check out this video about Ingenuity Labs researcher Sidney Givigi, and his Autonomous Robots Research Group. The project is Controlling Robots with your Mind.

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Canadian AI Conference and the Computer and Robot Vision Conference

Our own Xiaodan Zhu is a Program Co-Chair of the 33rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence that will take place May 13 to 15, 2020. This conference is held jointly with the Computer and Robot Vision Conference and the event is being held remotely next week: https://www.caiac.ca/en/conferences/canadianai-2020/home http://www.computerrobotvision.org/ These are Canada’s premier conferences in AI …