Enabling Global Leadership in Vision Science

约克大学是加拿大第三大大学，拥有11个学院，28个研究中心，并与全球知名大学建立了288个合作伙伴关系。我们的CFREF提案，视觉：科学到应用（VISTA）汇集了约克大学世界知名的视觉研究中心和其他六个协同研究所和中心，跨越五个学院，推动约克大学在跨学科视觉科学领域的全球领导地位，从神经生理学到感知和计算视觉，达到新的高度。VISTA在过去6年获得超过1.87亿元的基本项目资助，并新增2,600万元的基本项目投资。我们将吸引最优秀、最聪明的国际人才，包括加拿大研究主席（CRCs）、研究增强型雇员（Research Enhanced Hires）和高素质的研究生和博士后，在人类与技术的界面上到达视觉科学的下一个前沿，推动多个高需求领域的科学和创新，包括健康、康复、老龄化、神经技术、机器人、数字媒体和监控。我们将通过创建vistaa专门的约克研究主席（yrc）来提高我们最优秀的现有人员的研究经验，约克的内部计划通过提供crc级别的福利来促进研究人员的保留。13个新的研究中心和研究强化型教授的聘用，最多10个研究中心的分配，以及226个新的研究生和博士后学员的支持，表明了我们对全球卓越研究的持续承诺。VISTA的动员和商业化中心（MC2）将与约克大学的知识动员单位和创新约克大学合作，通过重点转化研究和商业化途径，支持VISTA的研究商业化，为加拿大人带来切实的影响。

York University is Canada's third largest university with 11 faculties, 28 research centres and 288 partnerships with leading universities worldwide. Our CFREF proposal, Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA) brings together York’s world renowned Centre for Vision Research and six other synergistic Institutes and Centres spanning five Faculties to propel York's global leadership in interdisciplinary vision science from neurophysiology to perception and computational vision to new heights. VISTA is supported by over $187M in capital projects over the past 6 years and a new investment of $26M in capital project funding. We will attract the best and brightest international talent including Canada Research Chairs (CRCs), Research Enhanced Hires and highly-qualified graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to reach the next frontier in vision science at the interface between humans and technology, advancing science and innovation across multiple high-need sectors including health, rehabilitation, aging, neurotechnology, robotics, digital media and surveillance. We will enhance the research experience of our best existing people through the creation of VISTAdedicated York Research Chairs (YRCs), York’s internal program to promote research faculty retention through the provision of CRC-level benefits. The alignment of 13 new CRC and researchenhanced professorial hires, the allocation of up to ten YRCs and the support of 226 new graduate and postdoctoral trainees demonstrates our continued commitment to global research excellence. VISTA’s Mobilization and Commercialization Centre (MC2) will work with York’s Knowledge Mobilization unit and Innovation York to support commercialization of VISTA’s research into tangible impacts for Canadians through focused translational research and commercialization pathways.