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…
CAIDA Director, Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown, is known for his work on AI & Game Theory: a sub-sector that uses artificial intelligence to provide a computational approach to analyze situations where there are competing factors and players with…
This year marks the 34th annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems: a workshop and conference hosted by the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation that is more casually referred to as NeurIPS. While this year’s necessity to…
The thirty-seventh International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) has selected 7 papers by CAIDA members for this year’s conference, occurring virtually from July 12th - 18th, 2020. Supported by the International Machine Learning Society, ICML…
CAIDA members Frank Wood (Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Mila), Benjamin Bloem-Reddy, Alexandre Bouchard, and Trevor Campbell have been awarded the CIFAR Catalyst Grant for their project “Planning as Inference in Epidemiological Dynamics Models Collaborators…
Electronic Arts (EA) have partnered with researchers at UBC, including CAIDA member Michiel van de Panne, to use artificial intelligence (AI) to speed video game development and make visuals more lifelike. Usually, video game developers use motion…