Since 2018, Waterloo.AI has served as the University of Waterloo’s hub for cutting-edge research and collaboration in artificial intelligence and data science. We bring together faculty, researchers, students, and industry partners to tackle real-world challenges in areas such as disease detection, language understanding, emotional intelligence, and autonomous navigation.
At Waterloo.AI, we are dedicated to advancing responsible innovation that fosters economic prosperity and improves quality of life globally. Together, we’re building the intelligent systems of tomorrow—and we’re just getting started
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the study of machines and software that exhibit intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, planning, problem-solving, predicting, and the use of language and vision. With the advent of big data, and driven by the explosion of computing capacity and speed, AI tools are being increasingly integrated into technological solutions that are central to our everyday life, business, society, and the environment.
Why Should You Care About Data?
Waterloo.AI's Co-Director - Jimmy Lin, explains the importance of data in this episode of the "Back to the Classroom" video series.
News
WatSPEED brings industry leaders together to advance Canada’s AI readiness
From hype to enterprise implementation: How the University of Waterloo and the iSchool are helping executives lead in the age of AI
More than 1,200 founders and counting
Newly released data shows Velocity companies have an enterprise value of $40-billion
WatSPEED and Vector Institute collaborate to accelerate AI adoption in Canada
Strategic partnership brings cutting-edge AI training to today’s workforce
Events
Build on Trainium – Amazon Lunch & Learn
Amazon’s Academic Research Initiatives (ARI) team is visiting the University of Waterloo to present their Build on Trainium (BoT) program, which is offering $110 million in AWS credits to support academic researchers in AI, ML, DL, and compiler-related fields.
Invisible Yet Powerful: Watermarking to Protect Datasets and Models in Machine Learning
Join Lingyang Yu to discuss "Invisible Yet Powerful: Watermarking to Protect Datasets and Models in Machine Learning". This seminar will lead an intriguing conversation and will be taking place at DC 1304 on Monday, July 14th, starting from 10:30 am EDT.