AIMMLab Partnership Spotlight | 3/27/2026
We were pleased to welcome Youri Wims to discuss a potential partnership on how AI can help accelerate charitable giving and strengthen community impact.
#AIMMLab #AI #Philanthropy #SocialImpact
AIMMLab Weekly Meeting Highlights | 3/27/2026
🧠 This week, Sherif Shuaib gave a talk on
"Modelling climate-driven shifts in marine fish & community impacts using modelling + data science."
🎉 Kira hosted trivia, Arjun won!
#AIMMLab #ClimateChange #Fisheries #Ecology #MathematicalModeling #Canada
This week at #AIMMLab 🧠🔬
Keishi Suzuki presented: Distribution-Aware Multi-Stage Transfer Learning for Mammography Using Biomedical Vision–Language Models.
Exploring how foundation models + transfer learning can improve robustness of #medicalAI across imaging datasets.
Trivia hosted by Jusleen! 🎉
#AIMMLab Weekly Meeting Highlights | 2/27/2026 🔥
Dr. Yang Xu presented how atmospheric physics + causal AI can move methane research beyond detection to identifying which facilities are responsible in Alberta’s Oil Sands.
Trivia led by Christina Lu. Nancy Chen took the win 🏆
INDICIUM STEM_Fellowship – #AIMMLab 2026 🌟
Welcome Mellisa Zhang, a @UofT Engineering Science student, to our #Indicium cohort!
Her interests spans healthcare applications of machine intelligence to disease.
Project details soon.
INDICIUM STEM_Fellowship – #AIMMLab 2026 🌟
Welcome Keishi Suzuki, a UofT Math & CS student, to our #Indicium cohort! His interests span #MachineLearning robustness & healthcare. Over the next 16 weeks, he’ll be supervised by Prof. @dzevela.bsky.social. Project details soon. 🏆
#STEMFellowship #AI
🌟 AIMMLab Weekly Highlights | 2/13/2026 🌟
Arjun Sharma presented: “Fairness-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Breast Cancer Diagnosis.”
He’s joining AIMMLab for 16 weeks via the Indicium @STEM_Fellowship.
🎉 Trivia win: Ebenezer Adeniyi 🏆
#AIMMLab #BiomedicalAI #FairnessInAI
🧠 AIMMLab Weekly Meeting 2/6/2026
Ebenezer Adeniyi presented “The Multi-Layer Prototype,” a model linking trust, norms & cooperation to disease spread—showing how human behavior drives epidemics.
Trivia hosted by Yang Xu, congrats Keishi! 🏆
#AIMMLab #Epidemiology #Modeling
🧪📢 Is your science actually finished?
At this week’s AimmLab meeting, Davide Montesarchio reminded us that science isn’t done until it’s communicated. Impactful research begins when knowledge is understood, trusted, and used not just published.
#AIMMLab #ScienceCommunication
🌟 At IDRC’s Annual Meeting, AIMMLab Director Prof. @dzevela.bsky.social was glad to connect with Ms. Chaitali Sinha, whose support continues to strengthen AI4PEP’s community-driven work across the Global South.
Grateful for her leadership and partnership.
#IDRC #AI4PEP #AIMMLab
✨AIMMLab was honoured to host Dr. Romulo de Castro (AI4PEP Philippines) and Dr. Emmanuel Musa (AI4PEP Network Manager). They discussed AI, digital health, and global preparedness with our Director Prof Jude Kong. Excited for future collaborations!
#AIMMLab #AI4PEP #GlobalHealth
✨AIMMLab was honoured to host Dr. Romulo de Castro (AI4PEP Philippines) and Dr. Emmanuel Musa (AI4PEP Network Manager). Their insights on AI, digital health, and global preparedness sparked inspiring conversations with our Director. Prof Jude Kong.
#AIMMLab #AI4PEP #GlobalHealth
#AIMMLab was proud to be represented at Science Meets Parliament in Ottawa! 🇨🇦🔬
Our director, Prof. Jude Kong, met with Hon. Robert Oliphant to discuss our work on responsible AI, including tools for mosquito tracking, air-quality monitoring & infectious-disease early warning.
This week AIMMLab Weekly Lab Meeting combined rigorous science, engaging discussion & community fun. Thanks to Prof. Jesse Young for his talk on the Ontario Twin Birth Cohort — twin designs help separate familial vs individual influences. Congrats to Ebenezer Adeniyi, trivia champ! #AIMMLab #UofT
✨ AIMMLab Weekly Lab Updates ✨
Dr. Gelan presented a multimodal AI model for community-based measles outbreak prediction.
We celebrated Dr. Abbas (will join Univ. of Regina as Asst. Prof., Cybersecurity) and crowned Ebenezer Adeniyi our Halloween trivia champ! 🎃
#AIMMLab #DataScience #PublicHealth
🎙️ Episode 2 of our Modeling for Public Health podcast drops Friday, Oct 31. Sherif Shuaib (Community Engagement Lead) and Dr. Yang Xu (Postdoctoral Fellow) discuss how AI and explainable epidemic-modelling tools help communities act on outbreaks. #AIMMLab #ExplainableAI #PublicHealth
🎉 AIMMLab at the 2025 Canada Gairdner Awards Gala 🎉
Our Director, Prof. Jude Kong, represented AIMMLab at the Royal Ontario Museum to celebrate the 2025 laureates.
Thank you to the Gairdner Foundation and IDRC for the opportunity to participate.
#GairdnerAwards #AIMMLab
Update from Kigali (Oct 16–17): AimmLab at the DLSPH–Mastercard Foundation African Health Collaborative. Day 1: programs & partners, implementation “recipes,” MELA, resourcing ideas. Our Director Prof. Jude Kong shared applied-AI & partnership insights. #AIMMLab
🚨 Special Guest at @aimmlab.bsky.social ! 🚨
We’re thrilled to welcome Prof. Jonathan Shock as a Visiting Professor today! 🎉
He’ll share insights on “Building an African AI Institute which bridges worlds.”
We can’t wait for the conversations & collaborations ahead! 🙌 #AI #AIMMLab
🎤 Huge shoutout to Dr. Gelan Ayana Zewdie of AIMMLab for his powerful keynote at #BE_STEMM2025!
His talk on AI for community-based disease surveillance in low-resource settings was visionary and grounded in equity.
Proud to have him in our lab! 💙
#AI4Good #BlackExcellence #PublicHealth #AIMMLab
🌟@aimmlab.bsky.social weekly meeting updates – 07/25/2025🌟
Trivia twist: Dr. Emma Zajdela won our Geography challenge! 🗺️🎉
Lavneet Singh presented on LLMs vs Transformer baselines in sentiment analysis—insights on performance, interpretability & efficiency.
#AI #LLM #NLP #AIMMLab
🎤 @aimmlab.bsky.social Lab Meeting Updates 04/07/2025!
Mohammad Basri shared insights on ML for disease surveillance at mass gatherings. 🏆 The trivia win goes to our director, Prof. Jude Kong! Big thanks to Yang Xu for hosting!
#AIMMLab #AI #PublicHealth #EpidemicIntelligence
