Research Mobility Program

AML-TN highlights research collaboration and the exchange of knowledge—not only within UBC, but also beyond its borders. Our Research Mobility Program exposes graduate students to diverse perspectives, with the opportunity to gain international research experience and expand their professional networks.

All graduate students in AML-TN are expected to participate in at least one research stay (approximately one month long) during their degree. These stays focus on mentorship while advancing projects in artificial intelligence and machine learning. 

Note: Students may complete a research stay at an institution not listed below, but these stays must be pre-approved to ensure alignment with goals and adequate supervision.

Contributions & Support

To ensure a successful and productive experience, AML-TN provides:

  • $4,000 financial support to cover student costs associated with the stay

  • Assistance in organizing and planning the visit, including coordination with the host institution

Host institutions provide in-kind support that typically includes:

  • Supervision by a collaborating faculty member at the host institution

  • Research and office space, computing resources, and administrative facilitation
  • Exchange of scholarly information, including research papers, indices to theses, and relevant books

  • Invitations to attend scholarly and technical meetings, including seminars, talks, and events

These contributions ensure that students fully engage with the research community, gain hands-on experience, and develop professional relationships that last throughout their careers.

 


AML-TN Collaborators

North America
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Canadian AI Institutes

Host InstitutionsMobility Sponsors
Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)

Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
James R. Wright
Csaba Szepesvári
Russ Greiner
Quebec AI Institute (Mila)

Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Yoshua Bengio
Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Richard Zemel

USA

Host InstitutionsMobility Sponsors
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Institute for Data Systems, and Society

Cambridge, Massachusetts
United States of America
Tamara Broderick

British Columbia

Host InstitutionsMobility Sponsors
University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus

Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics
School of Engineering

Kelowna, British Columbia
Canada
Yong Gao, Lengyi Han
W. John Braun, Jeff Andrews
Irene Vrbik, Warren Hare
Shan Du, Yves Lucet
Mohamed Shehata,
Apurva Narayan
University of Victoria

Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science

Victoria, British Columbia
Canada
Nishant Mehta
George Tzanetakis
Simon Fraser University

School of Computing Science

Burnaby, British Columbia
Canada
Andrea Tagliasacchi
Greg Mori
Yasutaka Furukawa
Europe
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Host InstitutionsMobility Sponsors
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI)

Department of Perceiving Systems
Department of Empirical Inference
Computer Graphics Department
Computer Vision and Machine Learning Department
Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence Department

Tübingen & Stuttgart,
Germany
Michael Black
Bernhard Schölkopf
Hans-Peter Seidel
Bernt Schiele
Christian Theobalt
ADAPT Centre for Digital Media Technology

SFI Research Centre for AI Driven Digital content Technology


Dublin,
Ireland
Vincent Wade
University College London

Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit


London,
England
Maneesh Sahani
University of Oxford

Department of Statistics


Oxford,
England
Yee Whye Teh
University of Cambridge

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics


Cambridge,
England
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb
Toulouse Computer Science Research Institute (IRIT)

Artificial Intelligence Department


Toulouse,
France
Nicholas Asher