22 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Alberta, Canada

The Research Associate will apply extensive knowledge in their field to lead high-level, complex research activities under the direction of the Principal Investigator and provide managerial leadership to a research project or program. They may independently design a portion of the research plan or an experimental approach/technique under the supervision and approval of the Principal Investigator.

This includes supporting Prof. Amina Hussein’s Canada Research Chairs program on the development of smart table-top particle accelerators (designing and executing experiments, mentoring graduate students, laser maintenance and scheduling, data analysis and manuscript preparation), while also designing experimental approaches and techniques for high-order harmonic generation using high-power laser systems at the UofA.

The Behavioural Epidemiology Lab within the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta will be the new coordinating centre for the International Study of Movement Beahviours in the Early Years (SUNRISE) The SUNRISE study brings together researchers from low-, middle-, and high-income countries across the globe, to examine the associations of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep with health and development in children 3-4 years of age, and to examine potential correlates. To date, 66 countries (44 from low and middle income countries) have been involved in the SUNRISE study.

The candidate will work with Dr. Valerie Carson, incoming Primary Investigator of the SUNRISE study, and the SUNRISE Leadership Group on the data management, analysis, and knowledge translation of the SUNRISE study. The candidate will also provide support for the coordination of the study and have the opportunity to mentor undergraduate and graduate students.

A postdoctoral position is available in Professor Robert Wolkow’s group at the University of Alberta, Department of Physics. Extensive ultra-high vacuum scanning tunnelling or scanning force microscopy is an essential requirement of candidates.

Our work is focused on the fabrication and characterization of atom-defined silicon entities. Recently, we have demonstrated Binary Atomic Silicon Logic (BASiL) devices, which consume about 1000x less energy than CMOS while also enabling faster operation. Our same toolkit of knowledge and techniques allows us to make a variety of silicon-based quantum devices. A newly established RF-capable, 5T magnet-equipped SPM enables atom-scale spin studies. This work is enabled by grants we recently received totalling ~$4M.

Our spin-off company, Quantum Silicon Inc., is commercializing devices based upon our research group’s work. This includes the first purpose-built atom-precise manufacturing tool.

Multiple graduate students and postdoctoral fellows have transitioned directly from our research group to full-time employment at Quantum Silicon (in Edmonton, Canada and at our new subsidiary in Palo Alto).

The MacDonald Lab (www.bcell.org) at the Alberta Diabetes Institute would like to hear from postdoctoral candidates with a keen interest in advancing understanding of insulin and other hormones, as well as the function of pancreatic islets. Diverse backgrounds, skill sets and experiences are welcome, and we are particularly interested in hearing from candidates keen to lead in one of the following projects:

• The molecular regulation of insulin secretion. In particular, the characterization of new (unpublished) transgenic models to study SENP1 (e.g. PMID: 38184650)
• The development of novel approaches to assessing the human pancreas, including live pancreas slice methodologies that may include cellular imaging or labelling approaches
• Leveraging complex multi-modal phenotyping data to develop new benchmarking tools (e.g. via www.humanislets.com; PMID: 39357523)

Our team combines senior scientists, technical staff, fellows, and trainees who investigate islet cell physiology. In addition to Institute and Faculty resources, we have developed a number of key programs to support our researchers. These include a world-leading human pancreas and islet biobanking program (www.isletcore.ca), internal bioinformatics support, and training and networking supports through our leading role in the Canadian Islet Research and Training Network (www.islets.ca).

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a collaborative project jointly led by Prof Nidhi Hegde (University of Alberta, Amii) and Prof Dhanya Sridhar (Université de Montréal, MILA) and funded through the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).

The focus of the project is on strategic classification and causal models. In particular, we aim to study long-term fairness and develop robust learning algorithms in a strategic classification framework.

The selected candidate will benefit from the motivating environments at both the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) and Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. Both institutes and affiliated universities offer numerous opportunities for professional development for postdocs to carve their paths, whether in academia or industry.

The Foundations of Robust and Trustworthy Machine Learning (FORT) lab led by Prof Nidhi Hegde has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral researcher. The FORT lab focuses on a fundamental approach to developing robust and trustworthy algorithms for machine learning. This largely applies to notions of privacy and fairness, but also to more general concepts of robustness and stability. Applications range from supervised learning to bandits to language models to image segmentation. The current open position is for a project on Distributionally Robust Optimization as applied to these themes. 

The selected candidate will be hosted in the FORT lab, in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii). Both Amii and the University of Alberta offer numerous opportunities of professional development for postdoctoral researchers to carve their paths, whether in academia or industry.

This position offers the opportunity to contribute to innovative research in child development and participation through brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. We seek candidates passionate about the clinical implementation of non-invasive (BCIs) for neurodiverse children and youth. This interdisciplinary patient and family-centered research involves medicine, rehabilitation, and engineering faculties, aiming to enhance participation and development through play, mobility, and communication for people with neurological impairments.

A background in rehabilitation sciences, neuroscience, or developmental psychology is preferred. Successful candidates will have strong communication, collaboration, and coordination skills to work effectively with patients, families, researchers, clinicians, and industry partners and contribute successfully to this intersectoral research.

The successful applicants will participate and lead research that applies advanced statistical, AI and ML techniques to large populational health data of patients with mental and substance use disorders. Current and potential projects include two main directions: 1) Individualized prediction of mental and substance use disorders and overdoses and associated health and economical outcomes in the population using health, survey and biological data; 2) Implementation of ML models through interactions with multiple stakeholders and people with living and lived experiences.

The successful applicants will have the opportunity of supervised access to several public and government/institution owned datasets, including large (over 4 million people) de-identified health data from Alberta. In this context, there are excellent opportunities for shared mentorship and collaboration with several PIs in psychiatry and computing science, including the Alberta machine intelligence institute (Amii).

The successful applicants will play a leadership role for several research projects in computational psychiatry, develop and participate in preparation of research grant proposals, assist in the supervision and training of other personnel including technologists, graduate students, other lab members and scientific collaborators. The successful applicant will also have the opportunity to work directly with our partners in Ministries of Alberta Government, Alberta Health Services (AHS) and Canadian Mental Health Association Edmonton, as well as international partners. The ideal applicant will exhibit a high level of motivation to pursue data-driven research in mental disorders, to publish in excellent peer-reviewed journals, and to seek prestigious fellowships and research awards, as appropriate.

The Clemente research group invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow to perform high-level complex research activities for projects in cardioimmunology. Our main research topics include immune responses in cardioncology, viral and autoimmune myocarditis. We use genetically modified mouse models to uncover the role of immune cells in these settings. The projects will expose the PDF to a wide variety of scientific questions and approaches, including exploring changes in immunological responses and understanding mechanistic relationships between the immune system and heart function 

The PDF will help establish project goals and experiments, and guide technicians and students in the lab. Specifically, for animal experiments, the candidate will be responsible for managing the ordering and maintenance of animals, records, and animal experiments. Independent decision-making and collaboration with lab trainees, animal care staff, the principal investigator, and veterinarians will be needed.

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Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Postdoctoral Fellow – Machine Learning in Medicine

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Canada urgently needs to increase its stock of social and affordable housing in order to address housing needs and prevent homelessness. As such, an initial focus for the position will be identifying and analyzing opportunities and barriers to increasing supply, as well as mechanisms to ensure that this supply meets adequacy standards.  It is expected that this research will engage with wider debates around supply and demand factors, housing affordability, and related public policy settings.

Subsequent research may focus on issues such as the measurement of housing vulnerability, the assessment of tenant outcomes, and/or the development and implementation of sustainable energy systems in community housing.