Professors Pascal Poupart of the Cheriton School of Computer Science and Luis Ricardez-Sandoval of the Department of Chemical Engineering have received $480,000 to strengthen Canada’s supply of critical minerals by applying artificial intelligence to the recycling of rare earth elements.
The four-year project, Advanced Reinforcement Learning Strategies for Optimal Process Flowsheet Design in the Recycling of Rare Earth Elements, will use reinforcement learning to design more efficient, sustainable recycling systems. The research is supported by $216,000 from the Bank of Montreal and $264,000 from Mitacs, and will provide training opportunities for four PhD students and one master’s student.
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