York engineers develop mobile app to improve the safety of city cycling

“I cycled in Europe where cycling is a big part of the transportation system, and people are really comfortable with that,” she says. “But when I came to Canada, it was sometimes scary, because I needed to share the street with cars, and some of the car-driving behaviour was not really appropriate for sharing the […]

Uncovering racial bias in AI

For Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Lassonde School of Engineering, conducting research on the fairness of AI in healthcare and imaging diagnostics is personal.  While working on research in developing optimization algorithms, Seyyed-Kalantari’s life was derailed by a medical misdiagnosis that took two years to […]