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Partnerships & innovation

Innovation happens at the crossroads of ideas. By building strong partnerships across disciplines, sectors, and borders, our professors are expanding research frontiers and sparking solutions to some of today’s toughest challenges.

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Four female researchers are working along the edge of a small, winding creek in a grassy, partially forested landscape under a cloudy sky.
Earth and Environmental Sc.

Glacier loss, a shared purpose: A research partnership in the North

Where glacier loss meets lived experience, a powerful collaboration emerges—uniting science and community insight to navigate a shifting Arctic.
A colourful radial cluster map illustrates various research topics in machine learning by labeled clusters that include natural language processing, reinforcement learning, privacy, federated learning, graph learning, deep learning theory, statistical methods, quantum computing, and applications in health care, medicine and biology. Each topic is represented by a distinct colour and spatial grouping.
Mathematics and Statistics

Professor Aaron Smith and the Tutte Institute are bringing clarity to data chao…

With data everywhere, how do we find what truly matters? Professor Aaron Smith, in partnership with the Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing, develops computational tools that distill unstructured data and automatically surface key information for human review.
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Biology

uOttawa contributes to global amphibian conservation effort

uOttawa’s Vance L. Trudeau partnered with the IUCN’s global Amphibian Conservation Action Plan, helping advance assisted breeding and biobanking science to protect frogs and salamanders facing steep declines worldwide.
The 5.4 km free-space quantum communication link between the University of Ottawa and the National Research Council Canada, where real-time atmospheric turbulence measurements were conducted to train TAROQQO.
Physics

AI and Adaptive Optics propel free-space quantum communication into a new era

uOttawa researchers, with NRC Canada and the Max Planck Institute, used AI and adaptive optics to beat atmospheric turbulence, boosting free-space quantum communication and secure high-dimensional quantum key distribution for future global networks.