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Paper by Dr. Schmidt and former trainees Hamed Karimi and Julie Nutini recognized at ECML PKDD 2026 for lasting impact in past decade. This story was originally published in the Computer Science Department news , written by Sonja Soo. UBC Computer…

This year marks the forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning ( ICML). Supported by the International Machine Learning Society, ICML is one of the biggest, and most prestigious, academic conferences for artificial intelligence. This…

UBC Professor Kevin Leyton-Brown honoured with major international computer science award for contributions to AI and machine learning This story was originally published in the Computer Science Department news , written by Sonja Soo. The Association…

Nearly 250 AI experts in academia, industry and government gathered on May 7, 2026 to explore how BC can turn AI research into real-world applications across sectors This story was originally published in the Computer Science Department news…

A new campus-wide 100-level course, and separate degree option in computer science, are designed to help UBC students succeed in an AI-driven future. This story was originally published in the Faculty of Science news , written by Chris Balma This…

This year marks the fourteenth annual International Conference on Learning Representations ( ICLR). “ICLR is globally renowned for presenting and publishing cutting-edge research on all aspects of deep learning used in the fields of artificial…

A collaborative event hosted by UBC and SFU’s Computer Science departments sparked discussions on how to advance AI in BC’s industries On a Thursday evening at SFU’s Harbour Centre in downtown Vancouver, conversation was buzzing and the excitement in…

This year marks the 39th 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 intelligence…

We're excited to announce the submission of a new book, " Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning" by Martin Puterman and Tim Chan (to Cambridge University Press for publication). The book blends foundational theory with modern…

In August 2021 CAIDA was successfully awarded the Faculty of Science Hiring Cluster Grant, resulting in the formation of a new interdisciplinary hiring cluster in the Faculty of Science, named "Artificial Intelligence Methods for Scientific Impact”…