AIMMLab—Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Modelling Lab

🧠 AIMMLab Weekly Meeting 2/6/2026
Ebenezer Adeniyi presented “The Multi-Layer Prototype,” a model linking trust, norms & cooperation to disease spread—showing how human behavior drives epidemics.
Trivia hosted by Yang Xu, congrats Keishi! 🏆
#AIMMLab #Epidemiology #Modeling

A pleasure to host Ms. Joo-hyung Hong from the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare

We discussed AI work across DLSPH (incl. AIMMLab) improving patient care & safety, and AI deployed in Canadian hospitals to identify high-risk patients.

Welcome to Canada 🇨🇦

YouTube video by AIMMLab Winter Lab Meeting 1_30_2026: Davide Montesarchio’s powerful talk on science communication

Couldn’t join us live?

🎥 Catch Davide Montesarchio’s powerful talk on science communication now available on our YouTube channel.

🔗 Link here: youtu.be/PCvS8TqYJe8

👍 Watch, share, and like if this resonates with you.

🧪📢 Is your science actually finished?

At this week’s AimmLab meeting, Davide Montesarchio reminded us that science isn’t done until it’s communicated. Impactful research begins when knowledge is understood, trusted, and used not just published.

#AIMMLab #ScienceCommunication

🎤 AIMMLab Weekly Lab Meeting

Registration is now open for our talk with Davide Montesarchio:
“Science is not finished until it’s communicated”

🔗 Register here: utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📩 Zoom link will be sent after registration.

Looking forward to seeing you join us!

🎤 Speaker Spotlight | AIMMLab Weekly Lab Meeting
Next AIMMLab meeting will feature Davide Montesarchio – Journalist & Science Communicator

🧠 “Science is not finished until it’s communicated”
📅 Jan 30, 2026
💻 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Link coming soon!!!

We’re looking forward to an inspiring conversation.

First AIMMLab meeting of the Winter term! 🎉
Great vision-setting by our director Prof. Jude Kong and an inspiring talk by Dr. Zahra Movahedi Nia on human-centered AI for One Health surveillance.
Plus, trivia fun with Ebenezer and a win for Jusleen! 🏆

AIMMLab is at Caltech this week for the AIM Workshop on Formal Scientific Modeling: A Case Study in Global Health.
We look forward to contributing to interdisciplinary efforts that advance data-driven modeling approaches for addressing complex global health challenges

AIMMLab was delighted to welcome Luke Shankland, CEO of Aviro Health, to our facilities today. Our Executive Director, Prof. Jude Kong, had the pleasure of hosting the visit and leading discussions on collaboration in Point-of-Need technologies and other innovative diagnostic tools.

🎉 Happy New Year! 🎉
Thank you all for making 2025 amazing—61+ publications, AI solutions strengthening healthcare, and incredible teamwork. Grateful to our funders & team. Excited for 2026!

New preprint: Equity-first governance for LLMs in digital health. We audited LLaMA-3.2, Mistral-7B & DeepSeek (450 culturally grounded prompts, FNMWCF). Takeaway: technical adequacy ≠ equitable adequacy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #DigitalHealth #HealthEquity #ResponsibleAI

🚨 Faculty jobs in Canada 🇨🇦 | Open to international researchers
The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program is recruiting globally across Canadian universities in areas like AI, health, climate, food & water, clean tech, democracy, manufacturing & defence
tinyurl.com/dj9zbm9k

🧬 New preprint out!
HPAI in Canada 🇨🇦
We identify national & local HPAI hotspots using spatial analysis + ML. Key drivers include waterfowl density, poultry premises, vegetation & air quality—supporting targeted, risk-based surveillance.
Link: tinyurl.com/2xm2rf39

🌍 Building global wellness—together.

Great discussions at AIMMLab with African Health Tech Summit leaders. Excited to support planning for “Shaping a Future of Wellness, Together.”
📍 Toronto | 🗓 June 4–5, 2026
#GlobalHealth #HealthInnovation #WellnessWithoutBorders

⭐ DSI Postdoctoral Fellowship (UofT)
AIMMLab is accepting Expressions of Interest for supervision/nomination for the 2026 DSI Postdoctoral Fellowship.
📝 Apply via form only: lnkd.in/eqvtPG5b
📅 Deadline: Jan 10, 2026
🔗 Fellowship call: lnkd.in/exi6VmgP

Congratulations to our Director, Prof. Jude Kong, on your new appointments. Thank you to Prof. James Orbinski, Principal of Massey College, for his leadership and support.

🌟 At IDRC’s Annual Meeting, AIMMLab Director Prof. @dzevela.bsky.social was glad to connect with Ms. Chaitali Sinha, whose support continues to strengthen AI4PEP’s community-driven work across the Global South.

Grateful for her leadership and partnership.

#IDRC #AI4PEP #AIMMLab

🤝 Strengthening Canada–Africa Partnerships
Following IDRC’s Annual Public Meeting, Prof. Jude Kong
met with the African Desk at Global Affairs Canada to discuss support for locally led public health innovation across Africa.

We appreciate Global Affairs Canada for their time and engagement.

🌍 At IDRC’s Annual Public Meeting, Prof. Jude Kong, Director of AIMMLab & Executive Director of AI4PEP, joined Prof. Bruce Mellado and Prof. Bernadette Resurrección to discuss community-rooted innovation in global health.

✨ Thank you to IDRC for organizing this discussion.

Silent cyber threats: How shadow AI could undermine Canada’s digital health defences Shadow AI is the unsanctioned use of AI systems without formal institutional oversight. In health care, it means pasting patient details into public chatbots.

Please check out our latest article:

“Silent cyber threats: How shadow AI could undermine our digital health defences.” 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

theconversation.com/silent-cyber...

✨ AIMMLab x CURE Visit ✨
Great day hosting CURE undergraduate students at AIMMLab!
Loved their curiosity about how AI & math drive real-world impact in community research. Students takeaways include understanding modelling beyond equations to seeing how AI tools are applied to help people.

Last week, we hosted Prof. Romulo de Castro & team from AI4PEP Philippines at AIMMLab! Together with AI4PEP Ethiopia, we celebrated AI solutions strengthening healthcare systems & explored new collaborations. Thank you for the productive visit!

AIMMLab is excited to host a CURE Lab Tour on Nov 28, 2025 (HS569)!
We’ll share our research projects, meet students, and answer questions about research + grad school.
Interested in a tour for your high school or undergrad group? Email us (aimmlab.dlsph@utoronto.ca)

🚀 Wrapping up the mod4PH × AIMMLab mini-series!
All 5 episodes with the @AimmLab team.
🎧👇
Ep1 youtu.be/MUDafukSvP4
Ep2 youtu.be/38k_i4ANhCk
Ep3 youtu.be/sf9SnNE4qBg
Ep4 youtu.be/CrsQd-R5Qkw
Ep5 youtu.be/4r_r2-zy_tg
🙏 Thanks to Wendy Xie & NCCID!

✨AIMMLab was honoured to host Dr. Romulo de Castro (AI4PEP Philippines) and Dr. Emmanuel Musa (AI4PEP Network Manager). They discussed AI, digital health, and global preparedness with our Director Prof Jude Kong. Excited for future collaborations!
#AIMMLab #AI4PEP #GlobalHealth

✨AIMMLab was honoured to host Dr. Romulo de Castro (AI4PEP Philippines) and Dr. Emmanuel Musa (AI4PEP Network Manager). Their insights on AI, digital health, and global preparedness sparked inspiring conversations with our Director. Prof Jude Kong.
#AIMMLab #AI4PEP #GlobalHealth

✨ AIMMLab hosted an insightful workshop with MDPI on Academic Publishing in the Age of AI!

Highlights:
📝 Writing stronger papers
📤 Responding to reviewers
🤖 Using AI responsibly
⚖️ Publishing ethics

🎉 Trivia hosted by Ebenezer. Congrats to Kira for the win!
Grateful to MDPI Canada.

🎙️ Episode 5 Teaser — Now Live!
Conclusion & Future Plans of the AIMMLab
✨ Full Episode Drops: Sunday, November 23, 2025
The final episode of our Modeling for Public Health mini-series and it’s a powerful closing chapter by our Director Prof. Jude Kong.

#AIMMLab was proud to be represented at Science Meets Parliament in Ottawa! 🇨🇦🔬

Our director, Prof. Jude Kong, met with Hon. Robert Oliphant to discuss our work on responsible AI, including tools for mosquito tracking, air-quality monitoring & infectious-disease early warning.

✨ AIMMLab Weekly Lab Meeting – 14/11/2025 ✨

🎤 Sherif S. presented new modelling work on fish population dynamics in Canadian waters.
🧠 Trivia hosted by Weiran Wang
🏆 Congrats to this week’s champion: Ebenezer Adeniyi!

Grateful for another week of learning. Looking forward to next week! 🚀