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TOP 100 WOMEN

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Sanja Fidler

Title: Vice President of AI Research Company: NVIDIA Industry: Technology
Sanja, NVIDIA’ s Vice President of AI Research, leads the company’ s Spatial Intelligence Lab in Toronto, advancing frontier research in computer vision, machine learning and 3D AI for simulation and graphics. She helps shape how deep learning and generative techniques can inform virtual world creation, robotics and intelligent systems. An associate professor at the University of Toronto and a founding faculty member of the Vector
Institute, Sanja has co‐authored more than 130 scientific papers and serves on committees for major AI conferences. Her work has been recognised with awards for innovation and research leadership, and she continues to drive collaboration between academia and industry to expand the impact of AI. Sanja’ s leadership bridges foundational AI research and real‐world applications that are reshaping technology.
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