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Stories, awards, and milestones from DENOS Lab.
WISE intern Isha Goyal builds CardiCare, an on-device AI patient assistant
Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) intern Isha Goyal built CardiCare, an artificial intelligence assistant for coronary artery disease patients that runs entirely on an 8 GB NVIDIA Jetson, answers only from clinician approved content, and refuses everything else. It delivered zero unsafe answers across 270 test cases while a model five times its size made two.
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DENOS Lab organizes the IEEE Stablecoin and Agentic AI Forum
DENOS Lab organized the IEEE Stablecoin and Agentic AI Forum in Calgary on July 28, gathering speakers from ATB Financial, the Alberta Securities Commission, the Canadian Blockchain Consortium, and universities across North America to train talents for the era of stablecoins and agentic AI.
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Leo Wei joins Citizen Relations as AI Technical Lead in Toronto
DENOS Lab alumnus Leo Wei is moving to Toronto to lead artificial intelligence work at Citizen Relations, a public relations agency with offices around the world, capping a Master's marked by a Best Paper Award at IEEE ATC 2025 and research on federated learning for supply chain demand forecasting.
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Harnessing data research: AI in the emergency department
Dr. Steve Drew and the DENOS Lab are featured by the University of Calgary for ED Sim, an AI simulation platform whose autonomous agents model patients, staff, and workflows so that emergency departments can find bottlenecks and test solutions without disrupting real operations.
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Best Paper Award at IEEE ATC 2025
DENOS Lab research received a Best Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous and Trusted Computing (ATC), held in Calgary as part of the IEEE Smart World Congress.
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Team wins NFRF Exploration grant for emergency department AI
Dr. Steve Drew and co-principal investigator Dr. Jessalyn Holodinsky won a New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) Exploration grant to optimize emergency department operations with multi-agent large language models, pairing rapid patient-history summarization with a simulation of clinical workflows so that hospitals can shorten wait times and ease clinician burnout.
Read the announcement →COLA-GLM in press at npj Digital Medicine
COLA-GLM, our collaborative one-shot and lossless algorithm for generalized linear models on decentralized healthcare data, is in press at npj Digital Medicine.
Dr. Steve Drew joins two editorial boards
Dr. Steve Drew joined the editorial boards of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal and Neurocomputing as Associate Editor.
Federated learning survey selected for the ACM Showcase
Our survey Topology-aware Federated Learning in Edge Computing was published in ACM Computing Surveys and selected for the ACM Showcase.
Read the paper → ACM Showcase →Three DENOS students place third at the CANIS Hackathon
Leo Wei, Yunkai Bao, and Jiajun Wu won 3rd place in data visualization at the CANIS Hackathon, hosted by Schulich Ignite. Congratulations!
Third place at the PETs Prize Challenge
A UCalgary and Michigan State University team including Dr. Steve Drew and Fan Dong won third place in the Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Prize Challenge at the 2023 Summit for Democracy, using a federated learning approach that detects financial crime across banks without exposing personal data. Congratulations, Fan Dong!
Read the story →FedLE accepted to IEEE ICC 2023
FedLE: Federated Learning Client Selection with Lifespan Extension for Edge IoT Networks was accepted to IEEE ICC 2023. Congratulations, Jiajun Wu!
Read the paper →USDNL accepted to AAAI-23
USDNL: Uncertainty-based Single Dropout in Noisy Label Learning was accepted to the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23).