PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Media Studies in Canada

Multiple postdoctoral opportunities are available in Canada through industry-partnered cybersecurity projects at Concordia University and the University of Ottawa. The projects address the security of telecommunications, connected devices, and security operations, with opportunities to work on applied problems in collaboration with industry partners. Project 1: Securing Telecommunication Networks This project focuses on network security and cloud security, including agentic security solutions. K...

Killam Research Fellowships provide support to scholars of exceptional ability for major research projects with broad significance and widespread interest. The scheme is designed to give recipients time to pursue advanced research across a wide disciplinary range. The fellowship is open to work in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences, engineering, and interdisciplinary studies that link these fields. It is therefore suited to researchers developing ambitious project...

Postdoctoral positions in Probability or the Mathematics of Data Science are available at the University of Waterloo’s Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. The successful scholar will work with Professor Aukosh Jagannath on research at the intersection of probability, statistics, and data science. The position centers on mathematically grounded questions in modern data science, with potential topics including the mathematics of deep learning, statistical-to-computational trade-offs in...

PhD opportunity in Montréal: Human-Guided Evaluation of Generative AI Systems. This project asks how AI systems can be evaluated in realistic settings, and how to decide which tests or expert judgments provide the most valuable evidence about system risks. The doctoral work will explore probabilistic modelling , adaptive testing , simulated users , and targeted human feedback to build better ways of assessing generative AI. The research connects mathematical foundations with experimentation on l...

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...

PhD opportunity at the Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre (MBMC) for a prospective doctoral student contributing to the MOTIVATOR Program, a pan-Canadian study of behaviour change communication training for physicians, nurses, and allied healthcare providers involved in chronic disease management. The PhD research may include behavioural intervention development and design; delivery and assessment of behaviour change communication skills and training programs; behavioural trial methods and rep...

The University of Alberta Department of Computing Science is inviting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Computer Systems , with emphasis on AI and high-performance computing . Research areas of interest include computer architecture for heterogeneous computing (CPUs, GPUs, and linear-algebra accelerators), memory and storage hierarchy, operating systems, runtimes and resource management, compilers and programming systems, distributed systems, parallel computing arch...

PhD position available in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. The research group is recruiting a highly motivated PhD student to work on Artificial Intelligence in Wireless Communications , with possible directions including AI/ML for next-generation wireless systems (5G/6G and beyond), agentic AI and intelligent wireless networks, AI-driven resource allocation and network optimization, reinforcement learning and deep learni...

Zhijing Jin at the University of Toronto says that Jinesis Lab is always hiring and is looking for strong PhD and pre-doctoral students. The lab focuses on Responsible AI , Large Language Models , and Causality , with openness to research collaboration in both remote and in-person formats. The post also notes that UofT CS hires all ranks of professors across all computer science areas, especially AI, and that the formal call will be released soon. For PhD applicants, the post highlights that Uof...