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Marta Kryven has been selected to serve as Conference Co-Chair of CogSci 2027

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conferences
international collaboration
Marta Kryven has been selected to serve as Conference Co-Chair of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2027), the Society’s flagship…
Aug 26, 2026
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Oladapo Oyebode received a Canada Impact+ Research Training Award for his work on adaptive trust in AI

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Oladapo Oyebode received a Canada Impact+ Research Training Award of $120,000 as Principal Investigator, running from January 2027 to December 2029, for the research project …
Aug 15, 2026
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Oladapo Oyebode received an Ocean Frontier Institute Community Climate Adaptation Fund grant

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grants
funding
citizen science
Oladapo Oyebode received a Ocean Frontier Institute Community Climate Adaptation Fund grant of $30,000 as Co-Principal Investigator for a research project titled: Crowdsource…
Aug 1, 2026
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Oladapo Oyebode secured Mitacs Accelerate, Mitacs Globalink, and NRC IRAP funding

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funding
Oladapo Oyebode was awarded an NRC IRAP grant of $5,000 (spanning May 2025 to July 2025) for a research project on AI chatbots for mental health and motivation with the aim…
Jun 30, 2026
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Suresh Neethirajan Receives 2026 Research Excellence Awards from Dalhousie

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awards
research excellence
ai in agriculture
digital agriculture
Dr. Suresh Neethirajan holds a joint appointment across Dalhousie’s Faculty of Agriculture and Faculty of Computer Science, and in 2026 received research excellence…
Jun 27, 2026
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MooAnalytica Featured in Canadian Poultry Magazine on AI-Driven Poultry Welfare and Digital Twins

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media
poultry research
digital agriculture
animal welfare
The Canadian Poultry Magazine feature “Artificial Intelligence: All eyes and ears on deck” highlighted how AI is entering poultry production through bioacoustics, predictive…
Jun 25, 2026
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Oladapo Oyebode joined the board of Imhotep’s Legacy Academy

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community engagement
youth
Oladapo Oyebode joined the Board of Imhotep’s Legacy Academy (ILA) in June 2026, a Dalhousie-affiliated academic enrichment program that aims to increase the representation…
Jun 15, 2026
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Anthony Rosborough was interviewed by the Fight to Repair newsletter

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media
Anthony Rosborough was the subject of a long-form interview with the Fight to Repair newsletter entitled “Building Canada’s Pro-Repair Future: An Interview with Anthony…
Jun 1, 2026
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Anthony Rosborough was interviewed by CBC PEI Information Morning on Right to Repair and regional innovation

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media
Anthony Rosborough was interviewed by CBC PEI about the Right to Repair and its implications for consumers, independent businesses, innovation, and economic resilience. The…
May 30, 2026
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Masud Rahman was awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant and a Lab2Market grant

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grant
ai research
Masud Rahman was awarded $210k over five years as part of an NSERC Discovery Grant. The project is titled “Modelling, Integration, and Automation in Tackling Agentic AI Bugs”.
May 30, 2026
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Oladapo Oyebode was the plenary speaker at the recent International Behavioural Trials Network Conference

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plenary
Oladapo Oyebode delivered the plenary talk, titled “Personalization That Works: Leveraging Behavioural Science to Design Adaptive AI Interventions”, at the 6th International…
May 30, 2026
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MooAnalytica Student Wins First Prize at National IEEE Three Minute Thesis Competition

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student achievement
research communication
ai in agriculture
At the 39th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2026) in Montreal, the MooAnalytica Research Group presented a strong interdisciplinary…
May 27, 2026
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Anthony Rosborough delivered a keynote at the Canadian Association of Law Libraries annual conference in Moncton

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law
Anthony Rosborough gave a keynote presentation to the Canadian Association of Law Libraries / Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit (CALL/ACBD) Annual…
May 25, 2026
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The 2026 Canadian Repair Convention was held at Dalhousie University

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events
law
Anthony Rosborough co-organised and chaired portions of the 2026 Canadian Repair Convention, held at Dalhousie’s Weldon Law Building in Halifax. The two-day national event…
May 21, 2026
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Oladapo Oyebode chaired several sessions for international conferences

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conferences
Oladapo Oyebode chaired two sessions at the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2026) in Montreal, Canada: the “AI-based Gamification, Learning and…
May 1, 2026
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Yujie Tang received a Global Research Seed Fund (GRSF) for their project ‘AI-Enhanced UAVs for Resilient Emergency Response’.

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funding
awards
ai in emergencies
Yujie Tang has received a $5,000 Global Research Seed Fund (GRSF) for their project “AI-Enhanced UAVs for Resilient Emergency Response”. The GRSF is intended to support the…
Apr 30, 2026
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Oladapo Oyebode was awarded an OFI Seed Grant to deliver on AI-driven cross-platform mobile technologies for citizen science engagement

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awards
grants
Oladapo Oyebode received a Ocean Frontier Institute Seed Fund grant of $20,000 as Principal Investigator for the project AI-Driven Cross-Platform Mobile App for Citizen…
Apr 30, 2026
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Oladapo Oyebode received an NSERC Discovery Grant of $180,000 over five years for work on human-centred adaptive and trustworthy AI

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Oladapo Oyebode received an NSERC Discovery Grant of $180,000 as Principal Investigator, running from April 2025 to March 2030, supporting the core research program on…
Apr 30, 2026
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Tushar Sharma received the Distinguished Reviewer Award at TechDebt 2026

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Tushar Sharma received the Distinguished Reviewer Award at TechDebt 2026. The conference was held April 12-13, 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, alongside the International Conference…
Apr 30, 2026
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Anthony Rosborough provided expert testimony on Manitoba Right to Repair legislation

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testimony
legislation
law
Anthony Rosborough appeared before the Manitoba Legislature’s Standing Committee on Legislative Affairs in support of Bill 15, The Consumer Protection Amendment Act. The…
Apr 22, 2026
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Masud Rahman and Asif Samir received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICPC

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Masud Rahman and Asif Samir’s paper “Improved Bug Localization with AI Agents Leveraging Hypothesis and Dynamic Cognition” was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper…
Apr 13, 2026
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Masud Rahman was elected as a steering committee member by ICPC

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committee
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Masud Rahman was elected as a steering committee member by the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC). He will represent the steering committee and the…
Apr 13, 2026
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Masud Rahman’s PhD student Mehil Shah received a Canada Graduate Research Scholarship

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awards
scholarship
agentic ai
Masud Rahman’s PhD student, Mehil Shah, received a Canada Graduate Research Scholarship valued at $40k/year over three years. The project is titled “Towards Automated…
Apr 13, 2026
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Suresh Neethirajan Awarded National High-Performance Computing Allocation through DRAC

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awards
research infrastructure
digital agriculture
Following a competitive national peer-review process, Dr. Suresh Neethirajan’s project Digital Livestock AI Ecosystem: Multimodal Dairy and Poultry Analytics for Animal…
Apr 7, 2026
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MooAnalytica Student Wins People’s Choice and 2nd Prize at Dalhousie 3MT

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student achievement
research communication
ai in agriculture
MCS student Sibi Chakravarthy Parivendan, supervised by Suresh Neethirajan, won the People’s Choice Award and Overall 2nd Prize at Dalhousie’s 2026 Three Minute Thesis…
Mar 31, 2026
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Oladapo Oyebode’s student’s research paper won the Best Runner Up Award at PERSUASIVE 2026

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Oladapo Oyebode’s group’s research paper won the Best Runner Up Award at the International Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE 2026) held in Hakodate, Japan, in…
Mar 30, 2026
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Tushar Sharma received the MSR 2026 Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award

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early career achievement
Tushar Sharma received the MSR 2026 General Chair Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award at the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2026). He was…
Mar 30, 2026
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$900K Public Safety Canada Grant for Cybersecurity in Digital Livestock Farming Awarded to Suresh Neethirajan

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funding
cybersecurity
digital agriculture
critical infrastructure
Suresh Neethirajan received $900,000 from Public Safety Canada’s Cyber Security Cooperation Program to develop secure, tamper-evident digital architectures for connected…
Mar 30, 2026
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MooAnalytica Students Present at Dalhousie UN SDG Expo; Shreya Rao Wins People’s Choice Best Poster

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student achievement
sustainability
digital agriculture
At Dalhousie’s UN Sustainable Development Goals Expo on March 26, 2026, the MooAnalytica group presented eight posters across dairy, poultry, animal welfare, greenhouse-gas…
Mar 26, 2026
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Anthony Rosborough was on the Canadian Bar Association’s Competition Law and Foreign Investment Review ‘Counterfactual’ podcast

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podcast
law
Anthony Rosborough joined hosts Valeska Rebello and Kevin Hong for a discussion about the emerging Right to Repair and its relationship with Canadian competition law. Among…
Mar 16, 2026
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Oladapo Oyebode co-chaired the Personalizing Persuasive Technologies workshop in Japan

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Oladapo Oyebode co-chaired the International Workshop on Personalizing Persuasive Technologies (PPT 2026), held on March 10, 2026 at Future University Hakodate in Japan as a…
Mar 10, 2026
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Co-Organizing CIFAR Discovery Workshop on Digital Livestock Intelligence

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food security
digital agriculture
conferences
Suresh Neethirajan co-organized a CIFAR Arrell Future of Food Initiative Discovery Workshop in Calgary, March 2-4, 2026, on digital livestock intelligence, bringing together…
Mar 2, 2026
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Co-Organizing CIFAR Discovery Workshop on Digital Livestock Intelligence

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media
animal welfare
ai in agriculture
poultry research
The CBC documentary Cluck! Chickens Exposed featured the MooAnalytica group’s research using artificial intelligence to analyze chicken vocalizations and behaviour. The…
Mar 2, 2026
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Oladapo Oyebode was appointed to the Editorial Board of Discover Artificial Intelligence (Q1 Journal)

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journals
Oladapo Oyebode was appointed to the Editorial Board of Discover Artificial Intelligence, an open access journal from Springer Nature. The journal is transdisciplinary…
Feb 28, 2026
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Rita Orji was appointed to the UN AI panel

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international collaboration
Rita Orji was appointed to the UN AI panel for her research in persuasive technology and human-centred AI.
Feb 28, 2026
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Oladapo Oyebode was a guest speaker at the Eastern Shore Coastal Monitoring Network

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public outreach
Oladapo Oyebode was a guest speaker for the Eastern Shore Coastal Monitoring Network (ESCOM) webinar “Gamification as a Persuasive Strategy for Promoting Community Engagement…
Jan 30, 2026
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Masud Rahman and intern Mehil Shah’s Mitacs Business Strategy Internship (BSI) Lab2Market Grant was approved

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research
Masud Rahman and intern Mehil Shah received a $10,000 Mitacs Business Strategy Internship (BSI) Lab2Market grant. The grant will enable them to conduct market analysis for…
Jan 30, 2026
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Oladapo Oyebode and colleagues in the Department of Psychiatry received a CIHR Project Grant

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multidisciplinary
Oladapo Oyebode received a CIHR Project Grant of $283,051 (in collaboration with colleagues in Dalhousie’s Department of Psychiatry) over two years (October 2026 to…
Jan 1, 2026
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Oladapo Oyebode is the guest editor for a special issue of MDPI Healthcare

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journals
Oladapo Oyebode is a Guest Editor for a special issue of MDPI Healthcare on “Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual/Augmented Reality (VR/AR) and Machine…
Jan 1, 2026
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DAMLR Post-doc Mahtab Sarvmaili secured faculty position at University of New Brunswick

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career
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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service
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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music
robustness
talks
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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media
environment
ai-impact
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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robotics
research
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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software-engineering
ai-reliability
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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software-engineering
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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media
opinion
environment
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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MooAnalytica Launches Four Free AI Mobile Apps for Digital Livestock Farming 2025

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mobile applications
digital agriculture
animal welfare
In 2025, the MooAnalytica Research Group, led by Dr. Suresh Neethirajan at Dalhousie University, released four artificial intelligence–powered mobile applications that make…
May 26, 2025
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CIHR-funded project targets early warning signs of mood disorders in youth

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mental-health
cihr
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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training
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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mental-health
healthcare-ai
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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research
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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publications
software-engineering
ai-for-code
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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media
opinion
environment
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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