Seven Vector Institute researchers inducted into the Royal Society of Canada for ML contributions
VectorInst · x · 2026-11-10
Vector Institute announced that Faculty members David Fleet and Alec Jacobson have been inducted into the Royal Society of Canada, alongside Affiliates Wil Cunningham, Jimmy Lin, Paul McNicholas, and Fahad Razak, recognizing their lasting contributions to foundational machine learning research.
The announcement is part of a broader run of honors for the institute, including the 2026 NSERC McDonald Fellowship for trustworthy AI research, a MICCAI best paper award on medical foundation models for prostate cancer detection, and a win in the MICCAI pediatric brain tumour segmentation challenge.
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