• Our team won $700K CIFAR Solution Network for AI Safety grant to tackle dialect bias in LLMs (news, YT).
• The paper “Combining Clinical Clues to Improve Synthetic X-Rays”, led by our PhD student Hassan Hamidi, has received the Distinguished Vision Award at ACM SIGKDD & Annual KDD Conference 2025 Health Day, August 2025.
• Gebreyowhans Bahre successfully defended his MSc thesis, July 2025.
• Dr. Seyyed-Kalantari received two 2025 York University Research Awards: the Outstanding Early Career Award and the Significant Knowledge Mobilization & Impact Award, April 2025.
• Dr. Seyyed-Kalantari is one of only nine researchers worldwide to receive the 2024 Google Research Scholar Program award in health research, April 2024.

Our 'Taarof' paper demonstrates that LLMs fail to capture cultural norms and highlights the need for greater multicultural representation in language models. It has been featured in the following news outlets:

• Challenge of AI in understanding Iranian Taarof, ISNA, Oct. 2025.
• Challenge of AI in understanding Iranian Taarof, Tasnim, Oct. 2025.
• When‍“no”‍ means‍ “yes”:‍ Why‍ AI‍ chatbots‍ can’t‍ process‍ Persian‍ social‍ etiquette, arsTECHNICA, Sep. 2025.
• AI chatbots often can't read between the lines and commit cultural cringe that even tourists in Italy ordering coffee in the afternoon couldn't manage, PCGamer, Sep. 2025

Our 'Nature Medicine' paper demonstrating underdiagnosis bias amplification on AI medical image diagnostic tools was featured in the following tech news:

• Rising to the challenge of bias in healthcare AI, Nature Medicine news & Views, Dec. 10, 2021.
• Trained to underdiagnose, The Imaging Wire, Dec. 16, 2021.
• Vector Institute Research highlights, Neural Net News, Dec. 21, 2021.
• We need a fairness check in AI pipelines, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIMED), Feb. 24, 2022.

Our 'The Lancet Digital Health' paper on demonstrating AI can detect patient’s race from the medical image was featured in the following tech news among the others:

• Study shows AI deep learning models can detect race in medical imaging, KMGH-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Denver, Colorado, United States, affiliated with ABC Television Network, May. 24, 2022.
• AI recognises patient’s racial identity in medical images, AIMED, May 26, 2022.
• AI’s Ability To Predict Race From X-Rays Alone Sparks, UNILAD, UK, May 23, 2022.
• Imaging AI’s Unseen Potential. The Imaging Wire. May. 22, 2022.
• Artificial intelligence predicts patients’ race from their medical images, MIT News, May 20, 2022.
• AI Can Predict People's Race From X-Ray Images, And Scientists Are Concerned, ScienceAlert, Australia, May 19, 2022.
• AI can tell your race from an X-ray image — and scientists can't figure out how, National Post, May 17, 2022.
• Study: AI deep learning models can predict race from imaging results, MobiHealthNews, May 17, 2022.
• MIT, Harvard scientists find AI can recognize race from X-rays — and nobody knows how, The Boston Globe, May. 15, 2021.
• Policy brief – Risks of AI race detection in the medical system, Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Dec. 2021.
• Artificial intelligence can guess a person’s race with up to 99% accuracy just by looking at their X-rays or other medical scans, Daily Mail, Aug. 25, 2021.
• AI can guess your race based on X-rays, and researchers do not know how, VICE newsletter, TECH, Aug. 23, 2021.
• Who will save us from racist AI?, Quillette, Aug. 15, 2021.
• AI Sees Race in X-Rays. The Batch, Essential news for deep learners. Aug. 11, 2021.
• These Algorithms Look at X-Rays—and Somehow Detect Your Race, Wired Aug. 5, 2021.
• Reading race. The Imaging Wire. Aug. 5, 2021.

Lancet Digital Health

April, 2022

We have been interviewed by the editor-in-chief of The Lancet Digital Health journal to recorde a podcast about our race detection paper .

Our PSB 2021 conferance paper on demonstrating lack of fairness in disease diagnosis medical image classifiers was featured in:

• Researchers find evidence of racial, gender, and socioeconomic bias in chest X-ray classifiers. Venture Beat, The Machine making sense of AI. Oct. 21, 2020.
• Vector Institute, Internal Newsletter, Oct. 26, 2020.
• Vector Institute Research highlights, Neural Net News, Nov. 12, 2020.