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116					<h1 class="display-4">Yani Ioannou</h1>
117					<p class="lead">Schulich Research Chair, Associate Professor</p>
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119						Department of Electrical and Software Engineering,<br/>
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140									<h3>Associate Professor & Schulich Research Chair</h3>
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149							<p>I'm an Associate Professor and Schulich Research Chair at the <a href="https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/yani-ioannou">University of Calgary</a> in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering of the Schulich School of Engineering, and lead the <a href="https://calgaryml.com" >Calgary Machine Learning Lab</a>.</p>
150							<p>I was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the <a href="https://vectorinstitute.ai">Vector Institute</a> and <a href="www.uoguelph.ca">University of Guelph</a>, working with <a href="https://vectorinstitute.ai/team/graham-taylor/">Prof. Graham Taylor</a>, and a Visiting Researcher at <a href="https://research.google/teams/brain/">Google Brain</a> <a href="https://careers.google.com/locations/toronto/">Toronto</a>/<a href="https://developers.google.com/ar">Google AR Core</a>.</p>
151							<p>I completed my PhD at the <a href="http://www.cam.ac.uk/">University of Cambridge</a> in 2018 supported by a <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/phd-scholarship-europe-middle-east-africa/">Microsoft Research Ph.D. Scholarship</a>, where I was supervised by <a href="http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~cipolla/biography.htm">Professor Roberto Cipolla</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonio-criminisi-5ba41aa/">Dr. Antonio Criminisi</a>.</p>
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152I am interested in efficient deep learning, both for training and inference, sparse neural network training, and trustworthy AI for compressed neural network models. I have in the past worked on exoplanet detection with NASA, medical imaging, and 3D computer vision methods for processing and recognizing objects in large point clouds.</p>
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