PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Machine Learning in Canada

The National Research Council Canada is offering the Luise and Gerhard Herzberg Postdoctoral Fellowship for a two-year term at one of 12 NRC research centres located across Canada. The fellowship is open to women who identify as members of the designated employment equity group. Candidates from any science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) discipline may submit an original research project aligned with the research focus of an NRC research centre. Applicants should have completed a...

Simon Fraser University in Canada is offering fully funded MSc and PhD positions in remote sensing through the Synthetic Aperture Radar Laboratory in the Faculty of Applied Sciences. The research focuses on synthetic aperture radar, remote sensing, satellite data, programming, and radar-sensor research. Successful students may contribute to publishable research involving radar observations, satellite-data processing, and computational methods. Applicants should have a background in remote sensin...

The National Research Council Canada is offering a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Ottawa through its Digital Technologies organizational unit. The project focuses on uncertainty quantification and calibration for large language models (LLMs) , with applications to trustworthy artificial intelligence and human-AI interaction. The research will develop methods for measuring uncertainty in both LLM-generated outputs and intermediate model representations. Potential applications include halluci...

The National Research Council Canada (NRC) is seeking a postdoctoral fellow in Ottawa to develop low-cost, high-efficiency propulsion for attritable uncrewed aerial system (UAS) swarms. The project, “Enabling Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Propulsion for Attritable UAS Swarm,” will investigate a novel inlet architecture for detonation engines. The research combines computational fluid dynamics with experimental validation to assess detonation-engine inlets and their potential for affordable, efficien...

The National Research Council Canada is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow in Halifax, Canada, through its Metrology Research Centre. The two-year project, Innovating Algal Biotoxin Surveillance Through Digital Immuno-Polymerase Chain Reaction , will develop molecular and analytical tools for detecting harmful algal blooms and cyanobacterial toxins. The fellow will establish droplet digital PCR assays targeting toxin-biosynthesis genes, then develop immuno-ddPCR methods that combine antibody-based...

The Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity at the University of New Brunswick is hiring a full-time, in-person Postdoctoral Fellow in Agentic AI for Cybersecurity in Fredericton, Canada. The research project is conducted under the supervision of Dr. Sajjad Dadkhah in collaboration with NRC Canada. The project focuses on agentic artificial intelligence for cybersecurity, including LLM-based agents and multi-agent orchestration, knowledge graphs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG/Graph-RAG), neuro...

HaoTian Harvey Shi is recruiting motivated PhD students to join the Data-to-Manufacturing (D2M) Group at Western University in Canada. The openings are fully funded and are intended for admission in May or September 2027. The group’s research spans functional materials, advanced manufacturing, wearable sensors, and energy storage technologies. These opportunities are particularly relevant to students interested in materials science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, manufacturing, ...

The National Research Council Canada is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow in Composite Structure Virtual Testing in Ottawa, within its Aerospace organizational unit. This two-year fellowship will develop a Certification-by-Analysis framework for composite airframe structures. The project will create a Physics-Informed Mesh Graph Network solver that combines deep learning with governing physics to model complex composite failure mechanisms. The intended outcome is a fast, reliable and data-efficie...

The National Research Council Canada is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow in Ottawa for a two-year project on next-generation battery management systems for electrified transportation and energy storage. The project will develop an NRC-built battery management system integrating a flexible cloud-connected architecture, fiber Bragg grating optical sensor arrays for real-time thermal mapping, and an active cell-balancing prototype that transfers energy between cells rather than dissipating it as he...