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个研究中心和288个与全球领先大学的合作伙伴关系。我们的CFREF提案，愿景：科学应用（VISTA）汇集了约克世界著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，推动约克的跨学科视觉科学的全球领导地位，从神经生理学到感知和计算视觉到新的高度。VISTA在过去6年中获得了超过1.87亿美元的资本项目支持，并获得了2600万美元的资本项目资金新投资。我们将吸引最优秀和最聪明的国际人才，包括加拿大研究主席（CRC），研究增强雇用和高素质的研究生和博士后研究员，以达到人类与技术之间的界面视觉科学的下一个前沿，推进科学和创新在多个高需求领域，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VISTA专用约克研究椅（YRC），约克的内部计划，以促进研究教师通过提供CRC级的好处保留增强我们最好的现有人员的研究经验。13名新的CRC和研究增强教授的聘用，多达10个YRC的分配和226名新的研究生和博士后学员的支持，表明了我们对全球研究卓越的持续承诺。VISTA的动员和商业化中心（MC2）将与约克的知识动员部门和创新约克合作，通过集中的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.