EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES

Borealis AI Graduate Fellowship Program
Deadline: October 30, 2020
Description: This fellowship is intended for students registered in a graduate program in machine learning or artificial intelligence at a Canadian University from January 2021 to August 2021. Applicants must submit a 1,000 words research proposal, CV, transcripts, and two letters of recommendation.

Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Computers, Science, and Engineering - Florida Polytechnic University
$25,000 USD for four months
Deadline: November 15, 2020
Research Areas: Computer science; Computer engineering; Mechanical engineering; Industrial engineering operations research; Health informatics and big data; Autonomous vehicles.

Provision Analytics: Looking for Interns and Collaborators
Provision Analytics, an Alberta-based company is working on on-farm logistics and food traceability with funding from the Protein Industries Canada supercluster. They are looking for student interns (at the undergraduate and graduate levels) and long term research collaborators.

Bayer Digital Campus Challenge
Deadline: October 25th
Bayer invites students around the world to find creative ideas to capitalize on the opportunities that arise from digitization. Open to teams of students in Economics, IT, engineering, medical informatics, bioinformatics, Humanities.
Four categories: Machine & Deep Learning; Data Science; Cloud Computing & IT Security; Digital Therapeutics.

GoodAI Grants - To improve GoodAI’s Badger Architecture
Up to $300,000 individual grants
GoodAI will be awarding $300k in grants to research projects that push the boundaries of modern artificial intelligence.
Research Topics: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning; Learned Communication; Graph Neural Networks; Modular (Meta-Learning); Program Composition and Synthesis; Open-Ended Program/Strategy Exploration; Meta-Learning; Learned Optimizers; Optimization in Modular Systems

CIFAR and IDRC announce global call for AI Governance Solutions
For this call, CIFAR and IDRC are seeking a global team of cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary experts to design and develop solutions for governing responsible artificial intelligence (AI) in low-middle income countries.
Application deadline: November 2, 2020

Research Awards Supporting Small Molecule Drug Discovery Through AI
As part of the Cyclica Academic Partnership Program (CAPP), Cyclica offers two research awards to support small molecule drug screening and discovery efforts at the University of Alberta. Successful applicants will receive in-kind access to Cyclica's AI-augmented medicinal chemistry platforms, Ligand Express or Ligand Design, at no cost.
Application deadline: October 31, 2020

- September 8 - October 23: Virtual MedTech Conference
- September 29, October 1-3: Grace Hopper Celebration
- October 2: CS-CAN Seminar w. Yoshua Bengio:
Deep Learning: Past and Future Challenges, Including Societal Challenges
- October 2: Real-world Automated Transport Workshop
- October 8: Inspired AI - Episode 3: How to make AI work for your business
- October 14: Inspired AI - Episode 4: Getting the future right
- October 22: Inspired AI - Episode 5: Applied AI
- October 29: Inspired AI - Episode 6: Leveraging AI across your organisation

Note: The webinar with EPS previously scheduled for October 2,
has been postponed and will soon be rescheduled.

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