VINCI spearheads innovations in visual, interactive, and intelligent computing. If you would like to support VINCI, please consider making a donation. Your support can enable a number of initiatives underaken by VINCI:

  • Meet & greet events: mini-workshops with discussions and posters on topics within scope of VINCI, promoting socialization between institute membership, other SFU community members, industry, and government stakeholders.
  • Seminar talk series: regularly organized research seminars with invited speakers from SFU and other institutions. Open to institute membership, SFU VINCI students, and affiliates.
  • Public outreach events: outreach to high schools & other local educational institutions, as well as local communities, and government organizations.
  • Student scholarships: research bursaries and scholarships for VINCI students.
  • Student travel grants: support for student travel to conferences and workshops, to present research within the scope of VINCI.
  • Conference presence: support for branding and booth presence at conferences and related events to promote recruitment & visibility for institute activities.
  • Student visit day: support for organizing “visit day” where incoming VINCI graduate students can travel to SFU and interact with faculty members and other students.
  • Seed project grants: support new collaborative projects between VINCI membership.
  • Equipment grants: support purchase of specialized equipment enabling research in scope of VINCI.
  • Research coordinator support: salary support for research coordinators to administer and coordinate institute events and other activities.
  • Faculty protected research time: teaching replacement costs enabling increased protected research time for VINCI faculty members.
  • Space renovations & additions: VINCI-affiliated lab space renovations and development of new spaces in existing or new buildings.

Please email vinci-directors@sfu.ca for more information or to discuss other ways to engage with VINCI.