Key Responsibilities
Dalhousie University invites applications for a Donald Hill Family Postdoctoral Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence in Health & Medicine. This is an exceptional opportunity for a talented and ambitious researcher to build an independent, high-impact research program at the intersection of machine learning and healthcare.
The fellowship is anchored in the Faculty of Computer Science, under the supervision of Dr. Frank Rudzicz, Dalhousie’s Killam Memorial Chair in AI and Canada CIFAR Chair in AI. The co-supervision team will be assembled around the candidate’s own research vision, drawing from partners across Engineering, Medicine, Health, and Science.
Research Scope
The fellowship is open-ended in research direction, within the area of machine learning applied to health and medicine. We are interested in candidates with expertise and ambition in one or more of the following areas — though we welcome compelling proposals that go beyond them:
The Donald Hill Family Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Donald Hill, a Dalhousie alumnus with a distinguished career in medicine and research, has created three prestigious postdoctoral fellowships for interdisciplinary research in three key areas:
Medicine, Computer Science, and Arts and Social Sciences. The intent of these fellowships is to promote discoveries and advancements through integration with leading-edge research and scholarship across disciplines — enhancing the university’s ability to attract and retain the best and brightest scholars, and contributing to innovative multidisciplinary research that solves technological challenges, develops cures, and improves lives.
A defining feature of the Donald Hill Fellowship is the community of fellows it creates. Collaboration and dialogue among the three concurrent fellows — across Computer Science, Medicine, and the Arts and Social Sciences — is a core expectation and a desired outcome of the program. Past fellows have co-hosted public presentations, participated together in a writing course, and shared regular dinners.
Potential synergy among the research of the three fellows will also be considered in the final selection.
This is a named, competitive fellowship awarded to outstanding individuals. You will be recognized and supported as an emerging research leader. Annual renewal is based on demonstrated progress and engagement.
Why Dalhousie — Why Now
Dalhousie is in a period of rapid growth in AI and health research. The Faculty of Computer Science has made major strategic investments in machine learning, and the university’s close ties with Nova Scotia Health — one of Canada’s most integrated provincial health systems — provide exceptional opportunities for applied, translational work. The candidate will be a member of the Atlantic AI Institute and will be expected to play an active role in its activities and development.
Halifax is an increasingly competitive research city, home to a cluster of hospitals, universities, and growing health-tech companies. The Atlantic region’s scale makes it uniquely suited to AI-driven health innovation: close relationships between researchers and health systems mean that ideas can move from lab to clinic faster than almost anywhere in Canada.
Qualifications/Requirements of Position
What We Are Looking For
We are seeking the most talented, productive, and intellectually ambitious postdoctoral researchers in the field. The ideal candidate will have:
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