The Ontario Research Fund has awarded $1,614,137 to ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ to support the development of its research infrastructure. The funding will support 14 projects across multiple faculties and disciplines, strengthening York’s capacity for innovative research. The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) is among the recipients, with two projects selected for funding. LA&PS […]
Ontario will provide $1,942,046 to ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ for initiatives that strengthen research infrastructure, including upgrades to equipment and facilities.
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) will host the 24th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2026) from Sept. 27 to Oct. 2, bringing one of the world’s leading conferences in process management to ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ. The conference will be organized by the School of Information Technology (ITEC), with the organizing committee led by Arik Senderovich, assistant professor in ITEC, and Ravi de […]
A research team led by Professor Enamul Hoque Prince of the School of Information Technology has won the Best Paper Award in the short category at IEEE Visualization 2025, an international conference on data visualization and analytics. The award recognizes the paper The Perils of Chart Deception: How Misleading Visualizations Affect Vision-Language Models, co-authored by […]
Thirteen ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ researchers have received infrastructure funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). The money will go to projects across a broad range of subjects and expertise from across the university including the Faculty of Health, Lassonde School of Engineering, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and Osgoode Hall Law School. Manar Jammal, associate professor in the […]
Six professors from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies’ School of Information Technology have received funding from the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). This project funding was part of an overall $12.1M grant to drive science and engineering research at York. The funded projects are led by 57 different researchers […]
The more proactive you are in seeking opportunities, the more you'll get out of the experience. — Jasrin Kaur Jasrin Kaur Women in STEM mentor and EDI advocateBCom ’23, School of Information Technology LA&PS alumna, Jasrin Kaur was named one of ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ’s 2025 Top 30 Alumni Under 30, recognized among a distinguished group of young leaders […]
School of Information Technology Professor Jimmy Huang, along with fellow Professor Satinder Kaur Brar from York’s Lassonde School of Engineering, has been elected as a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). The prestigious fellowship recognizes professionals whose achievements have influenced the field of engineering. The 57 new fellows were officially inducted on May 27. Professor Huang […]
¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ has announced its Top 30 Alumni Under 30 for 2025, and this year eight alumni come from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. This outstanding group of alumni under the age of 30 were selected based on their work creating real-world impact and positive change. They continue to use their skills […]
Arash Habibi Lashkari, associate professor in the School of Information Technology, is the director and founder of the Behaviour-Centric Cybersecurity Center (BCCC). Lashkari’s research within the center has been multifaceted, developing technology to detect and protect against cyber threats. The BCCC also provides accessible datasets and open-source tools that can be used by researchers, educators […]