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From June 19th through 24th some of the top researchers working in computer vision will gather in-person and virtually for IEEE/CVF’s annual international conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ( CVPR). This hybrid conference will…
The research excellence and scholarly achievements of two of CAIDA’s members has recently been recognized as recipients of UBC’s 2021 Faculty Research Awards. Raymond Ng (Computer Science) and Mark Schmidt (Computer Science) have both been awarded…
This year marks the 36th Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence ( AAAI) Conference. The annual AAAI Conference is a prestigious artificial intelligence conference that aims to promote AI research excellence and encourage…
In 2021 CAIDA, alongside nine other research clusters at UBC, formed the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Health Cluster Alliance. The goal of this alliance is to learn about inequity and oppression in a post-secondary context, to…
This year marks the 35th annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS): a workshop and conference hosted by the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation that celebrates the work being done in artificial intelligences…
CAIDA member David Poole, alongside fellow authors Guy Van den Broeck, Kristian Kersting, and Sriraam Natarajan have recently published a book on probabilistic lifted inference titled " An Introduction to Lifted Probabilistic Inference." Lifted…
UBC’s Big New Investment in AI for Scientific Impact Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fueling profound innovation across science, the economy and society, with UBC students and faculty at the forefront of many advancements. "Now, UBC is making an even…
CAIDA member Dr. Leonid Sigal has been awarded the BC Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship award. This award is in recognition of exceptional research that has the potential to make a large impact on the respective field. This award is focused on…
The CIFAR Pan-Canadian AI Strategy recently appointed five new Canada CIFAR AI Chairs, two of which are UBC faculty: CAIDA member Danica Sutherland and Mijung Park. The Canada CIFAR AI Chairs program is designed to help support the advancement of AI…
CAIDA member Dr. Cristina Conati, alongside fellow researchers Oswald Barral, Vanessa Putnam, and Lea Rieger, has had a paper accepted to the Artificial Intelligence Journal. The Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) is the most prestigious journal…