The 29 Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chairs, pictured with David Lametti, parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development. Chang is pictured in the front row, fifth from the right. Photo courtesy CIFAR.

Incoming computing science professor named one of Canada’s inaugural CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chairs

December 03, 2018

Angel Chang, who will be joining the School of Computing Science as an associate professor in summer 2019, has been named one of 29 inaugural Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chairs – part of the Government of Canada’s $125 million Pan-Canadian AI Strategy to support excellence in the Canadian artificial intelligence community.

Chang is an expert in natural language processing, 3-D visualization, computer vision and computer graphics, and is currently an associate faculty member at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute.

Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Faculty of Applied Sciences

Incoming computing science professor named one of Canada’s inaugural CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chairs