Professor Pascal Poupart has been awarded $170,000 through the NSERC Alliance Grant program. This funding is complemented by $85,000 from industry partner Manulife Financial, bringing the total project support to $255,000. Manulife is also providing significant in-kind contributions, including synthetic data, technical infrastructure for simulated business environments, and access to its technical experts.
Titled “Agentic Workflow Adaptation and Validation,” the two-year project will advance two research directions related to agentic ecosystems. First, it will develop continual learning methods that allow agents to adapt to evolving customer trends, changes to tool and large language models, and updates to application programming interfaces. Second, it will develop verification and validation methods to ensure that the actions taken by an ecosystem of agents meet desirable criteria and successfully accomplish target tasks.
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