U of T, Vector Institute woo rising stars in machine learning field

The University of Toronto and the affiliated Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence have announced the recruitment of two rising stars in machine learning research as part of a continued drive to assemble the best AI talent in the world. Chris Maddison and Jakob Foerster will both come to U of T having completed their doctoral research at the University of Oxford. He earned his undergraduate and master's degrees in computer science at U of T – the latter under the supervision of University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton. A senior research scientist at Google-owned AI firm DeepMind, Maddison will join U of T's departments of computer science and statistical sciences in the Faculty of Arts & Science as an assistant professor next summer. Foerster, a research scientist at Facebook AI Research, will start as an assistant professor in the department of computer and mathematical sciences at U of T Scarborough in fall of 2020.