Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association / en Richard Zemel receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association /celebrates/richard-zemel-receives-lifetime-achievement-award-canadian-artificial-intelligence <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Richard Zemel receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-05-25T10:58:31-04:00" title="Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 10:58" class="datetime">Thu, 05/25/2023 - 10:58</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-computer-science" hreflang="en">Department of Computer Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2023-05/UofT12857_20170317_RichardZemel_003-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Richard Zemel"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>(photo by Johnny Guatto)</em></p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><b>Richard Zemel</b> has received <a href="https://www.caiac.ca/en/lifetime-achievement-award">the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award</a> from the <a href="https://www.caiac.ca/">Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association</a> – its highest honour – in recognition of his research contributions to machine learning.</p> <p>A professor in the department of computer science in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts &amp; Science, Zemel helped build one of the world’s preeminent machine learning groups at U of T. He was appointed the inaugural research director of <a href="https://vectorinstitute.ai/">the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence</a> in 2017.</p> <p>Zemel developed a method known as an autoencoder, which trains a neural network to predict its own inputs. Autoencoders have led to arguably the most significant progress in machine learning&nbsp;– the ability to learn representations that can be used for multiple tasks.</p> <p>Another important dimension of Zemel’s research is algorithmic fairness. His 2012 paper “Fairness through awareness” formalized desirable fairness properties of a classifier. His group followed up by showing how existing learning algorithms could be modified to eliminate discriminatory biases.</p> <p>Zemel’s group has also published some of the foundational papers on few-shot learning, which considers how new concepts and classes can be learned given only a few labelled examples – and his work has shown how a neural network could be formulated to address this problem. He&nbsp;has also shown how neural networks could be applied to graphs, developing a message-passing approach that has been applied to many important areas, including drug discovery, health and social networks.</p> <h4><a href="https://web.cs.toronto.edu/news-events/news/richard-zemel-receives-2023-caiac-lifetime-achievement-award">Read the Department of Computer Science story</a></h4> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-add-new-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Add new tags</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/canadian-artificial-intelligence-association" hreflang="en">Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association</a></div> </div> </div> Thu, 25 May 2023 14:58:31 +0000 lanthierj 301761 at