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As the first College in Ontario with an AI credential, Centennial College has been a leader in the AI sector for many years. In fiscal year 25–26 Centennial’s applied research, innovation and entrepreneurship department “Centennial Innovates” had a total of 30 AI research partnerships with various stakeholders.
AI projects are being completed across our innovation priority areas of engagement:
- Digital Healthcare
- Data Analytics
- Transportation
- Aerospace
- Advanced Manufacturing
Applications vary from manufacturing scheduling to product design to systems efficiencies enablement using AI tools. Centennial Innovates first started tracking AI projects in 2022 – when we completed 10 AI projects with partners. We continue to see increased industry interest in AI applications, and provide our students with valuable experience in AI enablement as student research interns while they are at Centennial College. Last year we provided over 600 research internship roles for student researchers.
Centennial College ranked #1 in 2025 for AI projects, having completed 35 projects involving AI – more AI projects than any other college in Canada – over the past 3 years (FY2022-24). In FY2025-26 alone, we worked on 31 projects (completed + ongoing) involving AI.
Company: EffectiveAI
Project title and Engagement: Applied Research Project:Design, Development, Training, and Production Deployment of a Reinforcement Learning–Based AI Model for EMS Dispatch Optimization with a Secure AWS Cloud Architec
Source: 2025-26 Annual Report p.45
Innovation Area: WIMTACH
Company: Griffith Foods
Project title and Engagement: Designed, developed, validated, and deployed predictive AI models that integrate microbial growth, shelf-life, and sensory-quality data to estimate product deterioration and support data-driven shelf-life decisions in a production environment.
Source: 2025-26 Annual Report Centennial Innovates: Innovating Through Uncertainty
Innovation Area: WIMTACH
Company: Workforce Wellness
Project title and Engagement: The empirical research on the Workforce Wellness platform for integrating the third-party LLM models (Open AI, Google, and Facebook) with the work for wellness customized queries in the Healthcare domain
Source: Workforce Wellness Report
Innovation Area: WIMTACH
Company: Optimum Retailing
Project title and Engagement: Research and Development of AI algorithms for Level of Effort Estimations for Retail Store marketing Displays
Source: Optimum Retailing Report
Innovation Area: WIMTACH-CEDA