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Oct 11th 2024
News
Amii Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair Osmar Zaïane to receive CS-CAN|INFO-CAN Lifetime Achievement Award
Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Osmar Zaïane will be honoured for his significant achievements in advancing the science of machine learning.
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Mar 15th 2023
News
Amii Celebrates Canada's Biggest Night in Music
JUNOS week brought an indelible buzz to Edmonton. Amii is proud to have been a part of it–as we continue to push what’s possible in AI and celebrate Canadian ideas and innovation.
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Feb 26th 2023
Research Post
Basic and Depression Specific Emotions Identification in Tweets: Multi-label Classification Experiments
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Feb 15th 2022
Research Post
UCTransNet: Rethinking the Skip Connections in U-Net from a Channel-Wise Perspective with Transformer
Read this research paper, co-authored by Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Osmar Zaiane: UCTransNet: Rethinking the Skip Connections in U-Net from a Channel-Wise Perspective with Transformer
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Feb 14th 2022
News
Machine translation, multiagent reinforcement learning: what Amii researchers are presenting at AAAI 2022
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Feb 14th 2022
Research Post
Non-Autoregressive Translation with Layer-Wise Prediction and Deep Supervision
Read this research paper, co-authored by Amii Fellows and Canada CIFAR AI Chairs Osmar Zaïane,and Lili Mou, Non-Autoregressive Translation with Layer-Wise Prediction and Deep Supervision
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Dec 14th 2021
News
Now Hiring: Software Engineer
Join an exciting project to build an end-to-end AI open-ended chatbot system for the elderly -- apply to be a Software Engineer at UAlberta!
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Dec 14th 2021
News
Recommended Reading: Smart sound system could relieve anxiety for ICU patients
A multidisciplinary team out of the University of Alberta is researching the use of AI-powered sound therapy in ICU wards.
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Oct 27th 2021
Research Post
Anomaly Detection in Resource Constrained Environments With Streaming Data
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Oct 25th 2021
News
Using AI in the battle against forest fires in India’s Melghat Tiger Reserve
Using reinforcement learning, researchers are hoping to develop a better way of spotting forest fires in a remote Indian reserve that houses many vulnerable species.
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Oct 21st 2021
News
Learn about the AI research shaping the future of video games
Will intelligent tutoring agents replace game tutorials? Can AI models assist level designers and still keep the designer’s creative style? Dive into the AI research shaping video games.
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Oct 13th 2021
Research Post
A comprehensive empirical analysis on cross-domain semantic enrichment for detection of depressive language
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Oct 7th 2021
News
Now Hiring: Software Engineer
Work with the chatbot research team led by Amii Fellow Dr. Osmar R. Zaïane at the University of Alberta! Apply by Oct 17.
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Oct 6th 2021
News
AI in Video Games: Social Network Analysis with Osmar Zaïane
Video games have long been a domain explored by AI researchers, and researchers from Amii have a rich history producing advancements that can help across all aspects of game design, development and delivery.
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May 20th 2021
News
Osmar Zaïane delivers keynote speech at 2021 Canadian AI Conference
Dr. Osmar Zaïane (Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Fellow at Amii and UAlberta Professor) will deliver a keynote speech at the 34th Canadian AI Conference, happening online from May 25 to 28.
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Jan 19th 2021
News
Amii welcomes 15 additional Canada CIFAR AI Chairs
As part of the January 2021 AICan, Amii is pleased to welcome 15 new Canada CIFAR AI Chairs into our research community.
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Dec 1st 2020
Research Post
Hi-GCN: A hierarchical graph convolution network for graph embedding learning of brain network and brain disorders prediction
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Dec 1st 2020
Research Post
ANA at SemEval-2020 Task 4: mUlti-task learNIng for cOmmonsense reasoNing (UNION)
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Nov 18th 2020
Research Post
A machine learning approach to predict ethnicity using personal name and census location in Canada
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Oct 1st 2020
Research Post
U2-Net: Going deeper with nested U-structure for salient object detection
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Sep 14th 2020
Research Post
Bi-level associative classifier using automatic learning on rules
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Sep 14th 2020
Research Post
Building a Competitive Associative Classifier
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Sep 1st 2020
Research Post
Graduate Attributes Assessment program
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Aug 31st 2020
Case Study
ANA: The Automated Nursing Agent
Researchers at Amii are developing ANA (Automated Nursing Agent), a conversational software agent (also known as a chatbot) designed to converse with elderly individuals who are living at home.
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