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DAMLR Post-doc Mahtab Sarvmaili secured faculty position at University of New Brunswick

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DAMLR post-doctoral researcher Dr. Mahtab Sarvmaili has secured a faculty position at the University of New Brunswick. This is a major career milestone that recognizes her…
Dec 1, 2025
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Halifax to host CNS*2026 Computational Neuroscience Meeting

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The 35th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2026) will take place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, from July 11–15, 2026. This flagship conference of the…
Nov 28, 2025
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Music, robustness, and vision–language: ICML & NeurIPS highlights for Oore and collaborators

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Sageev Oore and collaborators have had a standout period of research activity spanning music generation, robust learning, and vision–language understanding, with multiple…
Nov 28, 2025
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Institute researchers receive spotlight papers at NeurIPS and ICML 2025

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A2I2 researchers have received two prestigious spotlight selections at top-tier machine learning conferences in 2025, highlighting the institute’s impact across both world…
Nov 28, 2025
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Most Influential Paper Award and Nomination at SCAM 2025 and SANER 2026

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RAISE Lab director Masud Rahman has been recognized with a Most Influential Paper Award and a Most Influential Paper Award nomination at two leading software engineering…
Nov 28, 2025
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Media coverage: CTV News – Power Problem

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CTV Atlantic’s First at Five ran a feature titled “Power Problem” on the environmental impact of artificial intelligence. Dr. Tushar Sharma discussed how modern AI systems…
Nov 17, 2025
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Distinguished Service Award – SCAM 2025

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Dr. Tushar Sharma has been honoured with a Distinguished Service Award for his role as Program Co-Chair of the IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis…
Sep 11, 2025
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Workshop on Multi-Objective Optimization and Planning in Robotics at RSS 2025

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At RSS 2025, A2I2 member Nils Wilde co-organized a full-day workshop on Multi-Objective Optimization and Planning in Robotics. Held at the premier single-track conference in…
Jul 25, 2025
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NSERC CREATE SECURE-AGRO: Training the next generation of cyber-secure agri-tech leaders

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A2I2 members Suresh Neethirajan and Nur Zincir-Heywood are part of SECURE‑AGRO – a new NSERC CREATE training program, Building Resilience in Smart Agriculture: Cybersecure…
Jul 9, 2025
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Notable publication: Why Attention Fails – Faults in Attention-Based Neural Networks

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In the paper “Why Attention Fails: A Taxonomy of Faults in Attention-Based Neural Networks,” Sigma Jahan, Saurabh Singh Rajput, Tushar Sharma, and Mohammad Masudur Rahman pre…
Jul 1, 2025
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Notable publication: ALPINE – Greener Language Models for Code

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In “An Adaptive Language-Agnostic Pruning Method for Greener Language Models for Code,” Mootez Saad, José Antonio Hernández López, Boqi Chen, Dániel Varró, and Tushar Sharma …
Jul 1, 2025
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Dean’s Research Excellence Award

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Dr. Tushar Sharma has been awarded the Dean’s Research Excellence Award for his outstanding contributions to software engineering and Green AI. The award recognises his…
Jun 27, 2025
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Media coverage: Adopting AI – Handle With Care

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Atlantic Business Magazine published a web-exclusive opinion piece by Dr. Tushar Sharma titled “Adopting AI: Handle With Care.” The article explores how AI can boost…
May 26, 2025
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CIHR-funded project targets early warning signs of mood disorders in youth

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A new CIHR‑funded collaboration led by Rudolf Uher (Psychiatry, Dalhousie) is bringing together clinicians, geneticists, and AI researchers to understand the earliest…
May 15, 2025
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Industry Collaboration: Advanced Spacecraft Detection on Low Power Compute Unit in Space

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DAMLR has launched a new industry collaboration with Obruta Space Solution through a $240,000 Mitacs Accelerate agreement. The project focuses on advancing Obruta’s spacecraf…
May 1, 2025
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Voices for Mental Health: New funding for AI-powered depression detection

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A2I2 researchers have received new national funding for Voices for Mental Health: AI‑Driven Diagnosis through Speech, Language, and other Data, a collaborative project led…
Apr 10, 2025
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NSERC RTI: Trustworthy Retrieval Augmented Generation for General Population Facing Services

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Dr. Ga Wu has been awarded an NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) grant for the project “Trustworthy Retrieval Augmented Generation for General Population Facing…
Apr 9, 2025
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Frank Rudzicz named Killam Memorial Chair in AI and Health

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Frank Rudzicz, Director of the Atlantic AI Institute (A2I2) and Professor of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, has been appointed a Killam Memorial Chair. The honour…
Mar 11, 2025
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Notable publication: Reinforcement Learning vs Supervised Learning for Code Refactoring

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In “Reinforcement Learning vs Supervised Learning: A Tug of War to Generate Refactored Code Accurately,” Indranil Palit and Tushar Sharma investigate how to best align code…
Mar 1, 2025
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Invited opinion: The AI boom and environmental limits

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The Globe and Mail published an invited commentary by Dr. Tushar Sharma titled “The artificial-intelligence boom is straining environmental and infrastructural limits.” The…
Feb 21, 2025
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