Time-sensitive postdoc & PhD opportunities in Canada to work on Open-source legal AI (deadline Feb 9) External

[Sarah Sutherland]

I'm forwarding this message on behalf of Samuel Dahan, Conflict Analytics Lab, Queen's University.

Thank you,

Sarah A. Sutherland

Founder and principal consultant
Parallax Information Consulting
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Post graduate researcher
University of Edinburgh

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From: Samuel Dahan <samuel...@queensu.ca>

Hi everyone,

I hope you’re doing well.

I wanted to flag a time-sensitive postdoc and PhD opportunity in Canada, particularly for colleagues or students currently based outside Canada. As you may have seen, Canada has recently committed $1.7B to attract international research talent, with a strong emphasis on AI and interdisciplinary research. One advantage of the Canadian ecosystem is the ability to work closely with leading researchers and institutes such as MILA, Vector, and AMII, while remaining embedded in universities.

In that context, Canada has launched the Canada Impact Research Training Awards. A key eligibility criterion is that candidates must not have previously studied in Canada.
Deadline: February 9.

We’re looking for candidates across:

• Computer Science / AI (human–AI collaboration, evaluation and reliability, applied ML, systems, infrastructure)
• Law / Social Science (legal AI, access to justice, institutions, HCI, governance)

The CAL is looking for candidate to work on frontier methods to improve reliability and adaptability in AI systems — including LLMs, but also newer forms of AI infrastructure — alongside building an open-source research community around these questions.

If you know anyone who might be a strong fit, I’d be very grateful if you could forward this note (or the LinkedIn post below) and suggest that they reach out directly to me and David Liang (david...@queensu.ca).

LinkedIn post:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/smithengineeringqueens_fully-funded-masters-phd-and-postdoc-positions-activity-7400177916497649664-lhCZ

Thanks very much — and apologies for the short timeline.

Best,
Samuel