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Through our continued partnership with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB), Trustworthy AI Lab members Zahra Atf and Zahra Ahmadi lead a session and discussion on accessible AI at CNIB’s Co-Design Festival.

We are excited to announce new additions to the team! Welcome Dr. Stanard Pachong who will be investigating machine learning techniques to analyze digitized blood stain patterns in partnership with the Forensic Chemistry & Materials Lab at Ontario Tech.

On March 6th 2024, Arsh Chowdhry presented his reasearch entitled: Discovering Trade-offs between Fairness and Accuracy in ML systems: A Multi-objective approach to a regional AI community group based in Birmingham, UK; BrumAI.

Ontario Tech’s Trustworthy AI Lab and Digital Life Institute will be co-hosting a Spring Speakers Forum event titled ‘Creative AI?’ Historically, creativity has been judged according to its impact and ways that people moved other people’s thinking, challenged longstanding beliefs, or transformed a field.

Dr. Peter R. Lewis and Doctoral student Nathan Lloyd attended the 5th Workshop on Self-Awareness in Cyber-Physical Systems (SelPhyS), where Nathan presented their coauthored work in a poster session, short talk, and subsequent panel.

Dr. Peter Lewis chaired the panel discussion at the Workshop on Responsible Language Models (ReLM) at the 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, on responsible adoption of language models.

Trustworthy AI Lab Director and Canada Research Chair Dr. Peter Lewis was featured as an expert speaker on a recent webinar by Lancaster House, on the impact of AI on work and labour relations.

Trustworthy AI Lab researchers, along with international collaborators, have published two articles in the latest issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. The first, Human Centricity in the Relationship Between Explainability and Trust in AI, with Zahra Atf, discusses reasons why explainable AI does not always lead to increases in trust, and sometimes actually the reverse.

Dr. Peter Lewis, Trustworthy AI Lab Director and Canada Research Chair, and Dr. Theresa Stotesbury, Assistant Professor in Forensic Science and head of the Forensic Chemistry and Materials Lab also at Ontario Tech, delivered a joint webinar at the Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Section of the Canadian Society for Forensic Science.