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Best Paper Award at the 2nd ICML Workshop on Foundation Models for Structured Data (FMSD 2026)

14 July 2026

G7 GovAI Challenge

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UAlberta Computing Science Students Win G7 GovAI Challenge

16 March 2026

Nathan Sturtevant

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Nathan Sturtevant elected AAAI Fellow

20 January 2026

Osmar Zaiane receives the 2025 CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award

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Osmar Zaiane receives the 2025 CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award

2 June 2025

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Bailey Kacsmar awarded the 2025 University of Alberta Award for Outstanding Mentorship in Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities

13 March 2025

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Rich Sutton receives the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award

5 March 2025

Marlos C. Machado

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Marlos Machado recognized at AAAI'25 under New Faculty Highlights

7 January 2025

Jialiang Yan

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Jialiang Yan Recognized with Honorable Mention for the 2025 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

6 January 2025

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Best Paper Award at EMNLP 2024

14 November 2024

David and Russ on campus

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Two Computing Science Profs win the Brockhouse Prize

6 November 2024

Israat Haque

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Israat Haque receives a 2024 UA Alumni Honour Award

5 September 2024

Frincy Clement

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Frincy Clement receives a 2024 UA Alumni Horizon Award

5 September 2024

Omid Ardakanian

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Omid Ardakanian receives the 2024 ACM SIGEnergy Rising Star Award

6 June 2024

Nadia Ady

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Nadia Ady receives the 2023 Canadian Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award

22 May 2024

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Osmar Zaiane receives the 2023 CS-Can|Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award

22 May 2024

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Emma McDonald selected as the 2024 CRA-E Graduate Fellow

19 March 2024

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Carrie Demmans Epp receives the 2024 CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award

19 March 2024

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Reflections on a 40-year career from an AI pioneer

14 March 2024

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AI-powered platform could help law enforcement get ahead of designer drugs

29 February 2024

Oumar Salifou

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Portable ultrasound tool uses AI to detect arm fractures more quickly

26 February 2024

Gillian Rutherford

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Leading researcher aims to create a meeting of minds between human and artificial intelligence

13 February 2024

Geoff McMaster

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Machine learning used to predict future health as Canadians age

10 January 2024

Gillian Rutherford

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UofA Team won the Forecasting 2022 Best Paper Award

4 January 2024

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Five reasons I would take INT D 161 - Artificial Intelligence Everywhere

23 November 2023

Jeremy Cherlet

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Outstanding Paper Award at IJCNLP-AACL 2023

4 November 2023

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U of A launches new fund to ignite innovative ideas

17 October 2023

Bev Betkowski

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Inside the mind of the machine

2 October 2023

Geoff McMaster

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Best Paper Award at IBM CASCON 2023

13 September 2023

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Most Influential Paper Award at IBM CASCON 2023

13 September 2023

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Distinguished Paper Award at IJCAI 2023

23 August 2023

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AI researchers harness data to drive health-care innovation

22 June 2023

Adrianna MacPherson

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"Alberta-made technology screens people’s speech for early signs of Alzheimer’s" on GlobalNews

10 June 2023

CAIAC 2023 Best Paper Award

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Best paper award at the 2023 Canadian AI conference

7 June 2023

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Best Master's Thesis Award at the 2023 Canadian AI conference

6 June 2023

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10-year Test of Time Award at PAKDD 2023

28 May 2023

Machine learning model able to detect signs of Alzheimer’s across languages

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Machine learning model able to detect signs of Alzheimer’s across languages

15 May 2023

Adrianna MacPherson

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Russ Greiner receives the 2022 CS-Can|Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award

12 May 2023

PADMA KAUL WITH RESEARCH TEAM MEMBERS SUNIL KALMADY VASU, NARIMAN SEPEHRVAND AND WEIJIE SUN. THE TEAM DEVELOPED A MACHINE LEARNING PROGRAM THAT CAN ACCURATELY PREDICT A PATIENT’S RISK OF DEATH WITHIN A MONTH, A YEAR AND FIVE YEARS BASED ON RESULTS FROM ROUTINE HOSPITAL TESTS. (PHOTO: SUPPLIED)

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Machine learning programs predict risk of death based on results from routine hospital tests

21 March 2023

Gillian Rutherford

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U of A computing scientists work with Japanese researchers on virtual reality game to get people out of their seats

13 March 2023

Michael Brown

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Denilson Barbosa appointed Associate Dean (Undergraduate)

8 February 2023

Donna McKinnon

Alona Fyshe

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'Kind of remarkable': University of Alberta AI expert explains implications of ChatGPT

29 January 2023

Csaba Szepesvari

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Csaba Szepesvári elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

23 January 2023

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The ghost in the machine (is unfair)

16 December 2022

Elizabeth Chorney-Booth

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Martha White receives 2022 Faculty of Science Research Award

31 May 2022

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Alberta Aqua team won 2021 Rocky Mountain Regional Programming Contest

12 March 2022

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Alona Fyshe receives 2020 Edmonton Edify Recognition "Top 40 under 40"

2 November 2020

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Martha White awarded 2020 IEEE AI's 10 to Watch

1 November 2020

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Martha White receives 2020 Killam Accelerator Research Award

11 September 2020

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Abram Hindle selected for the 2020 science fellowship at the TELUS World of Science Edmonton

4 June 2020

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Nelson Amaral awarded the 2020 University of Alberta Award for Outstanding Mentorship in Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities

1 March 2020

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