About
I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2009, where I was advised by Geoffrey Hinton and Sam Roweis. I spent two years as a postdoc at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University working with Chris Bregler, Rob Fergus, and Yann LeCun. In 2012, I joined the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph as an Assistant Professor. In 2017, I was promoted to Associate Professor, became a founding member of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and was named a Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning. In 2018, I was honoured as one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40. In 2019, I was named a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. I spent 2018—2019 as a Visiting Faculty member at Google Brain, Montreal. In 2021 I was promoted to Professor and I became the Interim Research Director at the Vector Institute. In 2022 I became Vector’s Research Director.
At the end of 2023, I stepped down as Vector’s Research Director to spend more time on research and on the Machine Learning Research Group I lead at Guelph. My Canada Research Chair was renewed the same year for a second five-year term. Since then, I’ve been leaning into two directions that matter to me: AI for biodiversity science (in collaboration with biologists and ecologists who actually spend time in the field) and the design of LLM-based agents that can help scientists interact with their own data. I also serve as Academic Co-Director of CARE-AI at Guelph and as Academic Director of Next AI.
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Graham Taylor is a Professor at the University of Guelph and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute, specializing in deep learning.
Graham Taylor is a Canada Research Chair and Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering at the University of Guelph. He co-directs the University of Guelph Centre for Advancing Responsible and Ethical AI (CARE-AI), is a Faculty Member at the Vector Institute for AI, and is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. His research develops deep learning methods for science, with a current focus on AI for biodiversity.
Graham Taylor is a Canada Research Chair and Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering at the University of Guelph. He co-directs the University of Guelph Centre for Advancing Responsible and Ethical AI (CARE-AI) and is a Faculty Member at the Vector Institute for AI. His research develops deep learning methods spanning generative modelling, multimodal learning, and LLM-based agents, with a current focus on AI for biodiversity science.
He has co-organized the CIFAR Deep Learning Summer School and trained more than 90 researchers. In 2016 he was named as one of 18 inaugural CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars. In 2018 he was honoured as one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40. In 2019 he became a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. He spent 2018-2019 as a Visiting Faculty member at Google Brain, Montreal. From 2021-2023 he served as Vector’s Research Director. He is also the Academic Director of Next AI.
Graham Taylor is a Canada Research Chair and Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering at the University of Guelph. He co-directs the University of Guelph Centre for Advancing Responsible and Ethical AI (CARE-AI) and is a Faculty Member at the Vector Institute for AI.
He leads the Machine Learning Research Group, where his research develops deep learning methods spanning generative modelling, multimodal representation learning across vision, DNA, and language, graph neural networks, and uncertainty quantification. Recurring threads in his work are learning under limited supervision, AI for science, and the design of LLM-based agents as collaborators in research workflows. Much of this research is motivated by the challenge of monitoring and preserving Earth’s biodiversity, in collaboration with biologists and ecologists.
He has co-organized the CIFAR Deep Learning Summer School and trained more than 90 researchers. In 2016 he was named as one of 18 inaugural CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars. In 2018 he was honoured as one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40. In 2019 he became a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. He spent 2018-2019 as a Visiting Faculty member at Google Brain, Montreal. From 2021-2023 he served as Vector’s Research Director.
Graham completed his PhD at the University of Toronto under Geoffrey Hinton and Sam Roweis, followed by a postdoc at New York University with Chris Bregler, Rob Fergus, and Yann LeCun. He co-founded Kindred, which was featured at number 29 on MIT Technology Review’s 2017 list of smartest companies in the world and acquired by Ocado in 2020. He is also the Academic Director of Next AI, a non-profit accelerator for AI-focused entrepreneurs.