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Alum Albert Tai’s entrepreneurial journey

The co-founders of Hypercare: Umar Azhar, Faculty of Information grad Albert Tai and Dr. Joseph Choi.
The co-founders of Hypercare: Umar Azhar, Faculty of Information grad Albert Tai and Dr. Joseph Choi.

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  • 26 November 2024
  • Alumni, Community

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Alumnus Albert Tai’s Hypercare startup was featured in the Globe and Mail this week as one of four U of T startups that are solving global challenges with innovative solutions.

Tai, who graduated from the Faculty of Information in 2017, launched Hypercare that same year, together with Dr. Joseph Choi, an emergency physician and assistant professor in U of T’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine, and Umar Azhar, a software engineer who left Yahoo Inc. in Silicon Valley to join the startup.

Read more about Tai’s journey.

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The co-founders of Hypercare: Umar Azhar, Faculty of Information grad Albert Tai and Dr. Joseph Choi.

Alum Albert Tai’s entrepreneurial journey

Alumnus Albert Tai’s Hypercare startup was featured in the Globe and Mail this week as one of four U of T startups that are solving global challenges with innovative solutions. Tai, who graduated from the Faculty of Information in 2017, launched Hypercare that same year, together with Dr. Joseph Choi, an emergency physician and assistant […]

People at the Standing in the Doorway Exhibit. Image also features Chinese characters

MMST students, alumna contribute to Governor General’s Award-winning exhibit

Students from the Museum Studies capstone course (2022/23) played a key role in creating an exhibit that has just been named winner of the Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Community Programming. Grace Kovacs, Hanjia Li, Abera Rajendran and Marie Song helped put together “Standing in the Doorway: Lived Histories and Experiences of the Chinese Community”. The exhibit drew on new oral histories, loaned […]

Faculty of Information at ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

Faculty of Information professors and students will have a strong presence at the 27th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) taking place in San José, Costa Rica next week (November 9-13). CSCW is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and […]

Fall 2024 grads in their robes outside Convocation Hall

Congratulations to our newest grads!

The Faculty of Information celebrated its newest grads on October 30. A total of 105 Master of Information students received their degrees alongside one Master of Museum Studies student and five PhD students. Congratulations to all 112 of our Fall 2024 grads. Photos from the ceremony and reception are now available to browse and download.