The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), the University of Alberta (UAlberta), and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) are pleased to announce $30M in funding to recruit 20 new AI Research Chairs at UAlberta.
These are tenure-track positions across multiple Faculties at the Assistant Professor level or higher. Each recruit will be nominated for a valuable and prestigious CIFAR AI Chair. Several of these positions will form a cluster hire in AI for Precision Health.
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), the University of Alberta (UAlberta), and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) are pleased to announce $30M in funding to recruit 20 new AI Research Chairs at UAlberta.
These are tenure-track positions across multiple Faculties at the Assistant Professor level or higher. Each recruit will be nominated for a valuable and prestigious CIFAR AI Chair. Several of these positions will form a cluster hire in AI for Precision Health.
UAlberta has more than 40,000 students from 156 countries. It is ranked #4 in Canada and #77 worldwide. It is ranked in the top three globally in AI and machine learning research over the last 30 years. Its Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry is dedicated to providing learner-centered educational programs that meet the health-care needs of its communities. The Faculty’s goal is to graduate qualified, compassionate and inquisitive practitioners and researchers accomplished in health-care delivery and scholarship.
UAlberta is located in Edmonton, the Capital of Alberta, and Canada’s 5th largest city with a metro-area population over 1.4M. Edmonton is a cultural, governmental and educational centre. It hosts a year-round slate of festivals, reflected in the nickname “Canada’s Festival City”. It is ethnically diverse with nearly 50% of the population of non-European ethnicity. The Edmonton region has been occupied for at least 5,000 years with the first European settlement, Fort Edmonton, a Hudson Bay Company trading post, established in 1795. Today it is a major centre for petrochemical industries, financial institutions, distribution and logistics, and research and educational organizations.
Amii, formed in 2002, became a stand-alone research institution and one of Canada’s three national AI hubs in the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy. The 2021 federal budget added an investment of up to $443.8 million over 10 years in the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, further building capacity in this area.
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is Canada’s first and largest province-wide, fully integrated health system, responsible for delivering health services to more than 4.4 million people. AHS operates 106 acute care hospitals, 459 community care facilities, 159 ambulatory care facilities, 70 addiction and mental health facilities, and 17 cancer centers. Together these facilities contain over 40,000 beds.
AHS is deploying a common EPIC-based clinical information system (CIS) that will allow healthcare providers a central access point to patient information, common clinical standards and best healthcare practices. The new system will collect, organize, and protect information everywhere AHS provides healthcare services.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for AHS and its partners to transform how they provide care to patients.
AI is a central pillar of these plans.
For more information about joining the AI in Precision Health team at UAlberta and Amii, contact Ross Mitchell at joseph.ross.mitchell@gmail.com for more information.