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UAlberta Comp Sci @UAlbertaCS

Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta

Joined September 2009
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Applications open for our High School Internship Program (HIP) running July 5 - Aug 12, 2022. All students in Grades 10, 11, & 12 across Alberta invited to apply. Submit your application today! ualberta.ca/computing-scienc…
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Dr. Alona Fyshe, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science - Computing Science, weighs in on AI: singularityhub.com/2021/11/2…

How AI Is Deepening Our Understanding of the Brain

By studying how deep learning algorithms work, scientists can distill high-level theories about the brain and then go test them in the lab.

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Dr. Frederick West (Acting Dean, Faculty of Science) and Dr. David Marchant (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) part of team developing a nasal spray to prevent covid-19 infection. idrc.ca/en/news/developing-n…
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Celebrating Staff: Britta Nielsen ualberta.ca/science/news/202…
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Hear from Carrie Demmans Epp on the interconnected nature of computing science. ualberta.ca/science/news/202…

Let’s Talk Teaching: Meet Carrie Demmans Epp

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New Assistant Professor Xiaoqi Tan joins the University of Alberta and shares his research and thoughts on the importance of teaching. ualberta.ca/science/news/202…
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ualberta.ca/folio/2021/11/sc… UofA Comp Sci professors David Wishart & Russ Greiner part of an international team of researchers using artificial intelligence to predict new illegal drugs before they hit the streets — which could help save lives and fight crime.
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The International Computer Games Association (ICGA) is hosting this year’s Advances in Computer Games Conference 2021 online from November 23-25. Attendance is free! For more info: icga.org/?page_id=3328
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Computing Science is NOW ACCEPTING applications for our 6-week paid summer internship program. Open to students across Alberta in grades 10, 11, & 12. uab.ca/cship
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Congrats to our departmental graduate award winners! Mrunal J. - Early Achievement (MSc) Kristen Y. - Early Achievement (PhD) Ryan D. - Outstanding MSc Thesis Award Haozhou P. - Outstanding MSc Thesis Award Camilla F.C. - Outstanding PhD Thesis Award
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24 Sep 2021
Congrats to our first year computing science student Sandra Taskovic for receiving the Schulich Leader Scholarship! ualberta.ca/folio/2021/09/sc… schulichleaders.com/

Schulich Leaders aim to put their love of technology to work solving problems and helping others

Six exceptional students beginning STEM studies at the University of Alberta this year have received the Schulich Leader Scholarship to help them realize their educational and entrepreneurial dreams.

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WISEST@WISESTualberta
18 Oct 2021
Applications are now open to our 2nd virtual SET conference! All female and gender diverse high school students in Alberta can register. Conference will take place on Nov 20. More info: ualberta.ca/women-in-scholar… #SET2021 #WISESTUAlberta #cndsci #YEG #womeninSTEM #STEMPower
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Omid Ardakanian@OArdakanian
19 Oct 2021
Don't miss this workshop if you are developing control algorithms for buildings. In addition to the talks, there will be a live demo of 3 control platforms SenSys/BuildSys registration is free for online participants!
Zoltan Nagy 🇱🇺🇭🇺🇨🇭🇧🇬🇺🇸@Z0ltanNagy
19 Oct 2021
ACM @sig_energy RLEM’21 is just one month away!! We’ll have - keynotes by Helia Zandi and Gregor Henze - sessions on real world RL and benchmarking RL - one ‘getting started session’ (CoBS, BOPTEST, CityLearn) - We’ll announce the winners of the citylearn challenge 2021 1/2
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Faculty of Science, University of Alberta
@ualbertaScience
4 Oct 2021
Meet Eleni Stroulia, acting vice dean in the U of A’s Faculty of Science, professor in the Department of Computing Science and the director of AI4Society, one of the University of Alberta’s signature areas. Get to know Stroulia and her research: bit.ly/3D8mfLd
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Amii@AmiiThinks
4 Oct 2021
Yangchen Pan discuss his research on Learning Natural Sparse Representations by Fuzzy Tiling Activation in our latest AI Seminar video. Have a watch: hubs.la/H0YMn9J0 #AI #ML #ABTech
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ICPCNews
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14 Aug 2021
Congratulations to all #ICPCNAC teams for their spectacular performance! The top 19 teams of the 2021 ICPC North America Championship, including the four Division Champions of the 2021 ICPC NADC will advance to the 45th Annual ICPC World Finals. bit.ly/3sfBJsu
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Join us Friday, July 23 from 12-1pm MDT for Amii's weekly virtual Artificial Intelligence (AI) Seminar! "Policy and Heuristic-Guided Tree Search Algorithms", will be presented by Levi Lelis, University of Alberta. Abstract, presenter bio, and Zoom link: sites.google.com/ualberta.ca…

Amii AI Seminar Series - Upcoming Seminars

RSVP required for in-person attendance. Submit by 9 am on the day of.

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Our well-deserving Prof. Rich Sutton was awarded IJCAI-21's Award for Research Excellence for his fundamental contributions to the foundation of reinforcement learning. ijcai.org/awards
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Congratulations to our Computing Science Professor Karim Ali! aito.org/Dahl-Nygaard/2021.h…
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