‘AI can be a valuable tool if used responsibly’
Mohawk College students are helping to preserve Canadian military history while honing their machine learning skills.
Shahid Salha, Mohawk College graduate and student researcher for Remembering Their Faces
Shahid completed a machine learning course at Mohawk College in 2024, which gave her the foundation and curiosity to take part in the Remembering Their Faces project beginning in 2025. As part of a smaller group of paid student researchers, Shahid helped with facial recognition, a key part of identifying subjects from military squadron archives from the National Air Force Museum of Canada, based in Trenton. She also took part in the Hennessey Letters project, using AI to help transcribe handwritten wartime letters as part of a private collection of the Canadian Heritage Warplane Museum. Thanks to her prior training at Mohawk College, she is now enrolled in a software engineering degree completion program at McMaster University in Hamilton.
Read the full story in The Toronto Star: ‘AI can be a valuable tool if used responsibly’