CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship - Machine Learning, Health Research
Shehroz
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Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)'s Health Research Training Strategy aims to equip research trainees so that they emerge from their training as scientific, professional, or organizational leaders within and beyond the health research enterprise. Generating Research Leaders of tomorrow is a key objective for CIHR. Fellowships provide support for highly qualified applicants in all areas of health research at the post-PhD degree or post-health professional degree stages to add to their experience by engaging in health research either in Canada or abroad.
Stipend - Trainees with a PhD degree is $40,000 per annum.
Research Allowance - $5,000 per annum
Duration of Support:
The maximum duration of support, taking into account all federal funding held, will depend on the degree(s) held by the applicant. For holders of a PhD degree, or PhD and health professional degrees, the maximum period of support is three (3) years.
More information about the postdoctoral fellowship call is available here - https://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOpprtntyDtls.do?prog=2911
Institution
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Toronto Rehabilitation Institution (TRI) is the largest rehabilitation hospital in Canada and number one rehabilitation research center in the world. Owned and operated by the University Health Network, TRI provides patients with rehabilitation care, helping people rebuild their lives and achieve individualized goals.
The Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Team (AIRR) at TRI is developing advanced technologies that can deliver safe and effective patient care - in the hospital, clinic or home - and also support caregivers and clinicians in their work. These new technologies use advanced techniques from the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision and pervasive computing.
Dr. Shehroz Khan, a Scientist at the AIRR team works exclusively in the development of machine learning and deep learning algorithms within the realms of ARIAL - Aging, Rehabilitation, and Intelligent Assisstive Living. (http://individual.utoronto.ca/shehroz/index.html). Dr. Khan may be able to support one post-doctoral position as a primary supervisor for the above CIHR fellowship call. A brief summary of his research projects can be see on the above website.
Application
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The interested candidates should send their application to shehro...@uhn.ca with the following information:
- The subject of the email should be "Postdoc CIHR"
- Two page CV
- Publication List
- One page Research Summary OR Project Proposal.
All the files should be send as one PDF. The candidates must 'first' check their eligibility using the CIHR webpage before applying. The deadline to submit final CIHR application is 1st Nov'2019. Therefore, the internal deadline to send applications to Dr. Khan is 15th October'2019. Late submissions may not be considered. Only the short-listed applicants will be further communicated.
regards
Dr. Shehroz Khan
Scientist,
Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Team,
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute - UHN
Canada.