Job Category: Computer & Electrical Engineering

Working with Dr. Jaigris Hodson, Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Digital Communication for the Public Interest, a postdoctoral scholar will focus on digital information disorder in the public sphere, especially connected to climate justice and social inequality. Combining traditional social science and humanities methodologies with innovative approaches to knowledge production and mobilization, the objective of the postdoctoral fellowship will be to make sense of the colonial and humanist legacies of enlightenment thought on the problem of information disorder in terms of its origins, changes, and solutions.

The Fields Institute Center for Quantitative Analysis and Modeling (CQAM) is seeking highly motivated individuals to work on modeling and data analysis projects associated with the Lab for Health Analytics and Multidisciplinary Modeling. You will work in a highly dynamic environment with exposure to world-leading academic experts as well as practitioners in the field of healthcare and related areas. You will build mathematical models and devise state-of-the-art computational tools to investigate health and biomedical phenomena using various simulation and modelling techniques.

data science in the broad sense, encompassing methodological research in data science (machine learning, operations research, statistics) and its applications in multiple sectors, including our priority sectors (health, transportation and logistics, energy, business, and finance) and any other sector of application (e.g., sociology, physics, linguistics, engineering)