Training tomorrow’s workforce
Saman Bashbaghi, a senior data scientist at Ericsson GAIA, is leading the initiative and supervising students on site.
“We’re interested in leveraging students’ AI and ML skills, as well as training tomorrow’s workforce,” says Bashbaghi. “The ultimate goal of this collaboration is to address the challenges that exist in current wireless networks, as well as the opportunities in 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT). Students will also strive to solve real-world industrial problems and contribute to the development of smart cities, intelligent transportation systems, manufacturing and health care.”
As 5G telecommunications networks develop to accommodate the coming wave of interconnected devices in society — sometimes called IoT — challenges emerge to keep end users healthy and happy.
Every research project at GAIA tackles a variety of different issues, but they all address the complexity of a 5G world in some way using AI and ML.
“To meet 5G requirements and the IoT, the objects don’t need to have a lot of bandwidth, but you need to have a lot of antennas everywhere,” says Jaumard, a network optimization expert and professor in Concordia’s Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering.
She had three research projects selected for the Mitacs-Ericsson GAIA initiative and looks forward to visiting her students at the hub.
Mitacs makes it happen
Mitacs, a not-for-profit organization that fosters growth and innovation has a long history of supporting AI in Canada. It helps students apply their specialized expertise to business challenges while connecting highly skilled personnel with companies like Ericsson.
“We’re proud to facilitate the next generation of research talent partnering with industry and advancing the AI ecosystem,” says Eric Bosco, chief business development and partnerships officer at Mitacs. “The GAIA partnership and the Ericsson hub in Montreal strategically align deep-learning experts to further AI research and development.”
Gabriel Garcia Curiel and Anna-Maria Moubayed, from the business development team at Mitacs, work closely with the Ericsson GAIA initiative and Concordia University to assess challenges and find the right researchers to advance the innovation process.
Learn more about the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering at the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science.