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Youth Reflection: Kids Help Phone AI Training Pilot

Kids Help Phone youth councillor Simran shares her perspective on RML's pilot project developing an agentic AI framework for training frontline mental health support workers.

NSERC Alliance Grant Awarded for AI-Assisted Intestinal Ultrasound Analysis

Dr. Naimul Khan has been awarded an NSERC Alliance grant (with Mitacs Accelerate support) totalling $120K to develop AI algorithms for segmentation and analysis of intestinal …

Bronze Medal at Kaggle — Bacterial Flagellar Motors Detection

RML wins Bronze medal (64th/1136 teams) in the Kaggle competition on Bacterial Flagellar Motors Detection in 3D Tomograms.

RML at IEEE ISBI 2025

RML presents new work on neonatal echocardiographic viewpoint classification at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2025.

RML at IEEE EMBC 2024

RML presents three papers at the 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

Two RML Projects Featured in TMU Research News

RML's de-escalation training and pediatric stress reduction projects are highlighted in a TMU Research News feature on VR technology.

New Frontiers in Research Fund Award: Therapeutic VR for Children on the Spectrum

Dr. Khan receives $250K NFRF Exploration award to develop dynamic therapeutic VR experiences for children with autism spectrum disorder, in partnership with Wellwave Inc. and …

Best Paper Runner-Up at CVPR 2021 Workshop

Julian True wins Best Paper Runner-Up at the CVPR 2021 Robust Video Understanding Workshop for work on motion vector extrapolation for real-time object detection.

New Frontiers in Research Fund Award: De-escalation VR Training for Emergency Responders

Dr. Khan receives $250K NFRF Exploration award to develop a VR de-escalation training platform for Canadian emergency responders, in partnership with the Ontario Provincial Police.

NSERC Alliance Grant: Therapeutic VR Games for Children

Dr. Khan receives $400K NSERC Alliance grant with Wellwave Inc. to develop therapeutic VR games with multimodal stress assessment for children.

RML at IEEE EMBC 2020

RML members present two papers on multimodal physiological stress assessment at the 42nd Annual IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference.

NSERC Alliance Grant: AI-Guided Neonatal Ultrasound Diagnosis and Training

Dr. Guan, Dr. Khan, and Dr. Umapathy receive $669K NSERC Alliance grant with Dapasoft to develop interpretable ML for neonatal lung and heart disease diagnosis.

NSERC CRD Award: Cloud-based Stress and Engagement Assessment in VR

Dr. Khan, Dr. Guan, and Dr. Krishnan receive $450K NSERC CRD grant with Shaftesbury for multimodal stress and engagement assessment in virtual reality.

NSERC CRD Award: IoT Signals for Medical Emergency Decision-Making

Dr. Guan and Dr. Khan receive $300K NSERC CRD grant with Dapasoft to develop IoT-based machine learning tools for emergency medical services.

NSERC CRD Award: Intelligent Scene Understanding for Mobile AR

Dr. Khan receives $90K NSERC CRD grant with AWE Company to develop ML algorithms for 3D scene understanding in collaborative augmented reality.

NSERC Engage Grant: Multimodal Stress Assessment for Pediatric VR

Dr. Khan receives $25K NSERC Engage grant with Shaftesbury VR to develop stress assessment algorithms for pediatric medical procedures.

Best Paper Award at IEEE ISM 2017

Randy Tan's work on real-time human activity analysis wins Best Paper at the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2017 Workshop on Quality of Experience.

NSERC CRD Award: 3D Object Recognition for Museum Exhibits

Dr. Khan, Dr. Guan, and Dr. Ye receive $375K NSERC CRD grant in partnership with SimentIT to develop AR technology for the Canada Science and Technology Museum.