Project Title: In silico evaluation of the impact of selection bias in Canada’s nationwide Host Genome Sequencing Initiative (HostSeq) with application to a thromboembolism-informed HD-GWAS of COVID-19 severe outcomes
Supervisors: France Gagnon, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Shelley Bull, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Project Title: Transforming Patient Experience Data Into Actionable Insights for Equitable Health Systems
Supervisors: Zahra Shakeri, Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Ishtiaque Ahmed, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto; Ebrahim Bagheri, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Project Title: An Algorithmic Audit of Digital Philanthropy on GoFundMe
Supervisors: Daniel Silver, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Scarborough, University of Toronto; Mark Fox, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto
Project Title: Artificial Intelligence-driven Ensemble Learning Models to Predict Childhood Cardiometabolic Risk and Simulate Personalized Nutrition Interventions
Supervisors: Elena Comelli, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Charles Keown-Stoneman, Unity Health Toronto; Catherine Birken, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children
This Postdoctoral Fellow is co-sponsored with the Joannah & Brian Lawson Centre for Child Nutrition, University of Toronto.
Project Title: Populations at the Forefront of Climate Vulnerability: Leveraging Data Science to Measure Climate Implications for Unhoused Populations
Supervisors: Monica Alexander, Department of Statistical Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto; Lindsey Smith, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
This Postdoctoral Fellow is co-sponsored with the School of Cities, University of Toronto.
Project Title: Modeling Large-scale Human Word Association to Understand Cultural Variation in Moral Reasoning
Supervisors: Yang Xu, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto; Jennifer Stellar, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, University of Toronto
Project Title: Preterm birth, parental socioeconomic status, and long-term educational and economic outcomes: A novel application of multi-state modeling and causal inference methods on a national longitudinal cohort over 34 years
Supervisors: Petros Pechlivanoglou, The Hospital for Sick Children, Child Health Evaluative Sciences Labs; Eleanor Pullenayegum, The Hospital for Sick Children, Child Health Evaluative Sciences Labs
Project Title: Equitable prioritization of active transportation infrastructure in Canadian cities
Supervisors: Shoshanna Saxe, University of Toronto, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering; Timothy Chan, University of Toronto, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Project Title: Hypothesis Generation for Biochemistry Foundation Models
Supervisors: Florian Shkurti, University of Toronto Mississauga, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences; Chris Maddison, University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Computer Science; Alán Aspuru-Guzik, University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Chemistry
Project Title: How do stereotypes shape personality reputations and affect academic and professional success?
Supervisors: Brian Connelly, Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough, University of Toronto; Sonia Kang, Department of Management, University of Toronto Mississauga, University of Toronto
Project Title: Can we discover conserved developmental pathways from single-cell transcriptomics data?
Supervisors: Sidhartha Goyal, University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts & Science, Department of Physics; Gary Bader, University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomedical Research
This Postdoctoral Fellow is co-sponsored with the McLaughlin Centre, University of Toronto.
Project Title: Towards foundation models for gait analysis
Supervisors: Babak Taati, KITE Research Institute, University Health Network; Andrea Iaboni, KITE Research Institute, University Health Network
Project Title: Building publicly available data science tools for the assessment of naturalistic cognition in healthy aging
Supervisors: Rosanna Olsen, University of Toronto, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Department of Psychology; Mark Chignell, University of Toronto, Faculty of Applied Sciences and Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering; Jennifer Ryan, University of Toronto, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Departments of Psychology & Psychiatry; Jed Meltzer, University of Toronto, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Departments of Psychology & Speech Language Pathology
Project Title: Decoding Happiness: A Language-Based Analysis of Historical and Cultural Trends
Supervisors: Felix Cheung, University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Psychology; Sam Maglio, University of Toronto Scarborough, Department of Management
Project Title: Machine Learning Accelerated High Throughput Synthesis of Novel Energy Storage Materials for Li-ion Batteries
Supervisors: Oleksandr Voznyy, University of Toronto Scarborough, Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences; Gisele Azimi, University of Toronto, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Project Title: Using computational linguistics to understand how we imagine the future
Supervisors: Donna Rose Addis, Baycrest; Yang Xu, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
Project Title: A generalized model of predicting outcomes of electrical neuromodulation studies
Supervisors: Paul Yoo, University of Toronto, Institute of Biomedical Engineering; José Zariffa, University of Toronto, KITE Research Institute, University Health Network & Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Integrating Machine Learning into Cardiac Psychophysiology Analysis Methods
Supervisors: Elizabeth Page-Gould, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto; Nicole Anderson, Baycrest
Project Title: Optimizing Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs Via Reinforcement Learning
Supervisors: Anna Heath, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children; Joseph Williams, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
Project Title: Integrative multi-omics study of pulmonary nodule malignancy based on molecular, clinical, and imaging data
Supervisors: Rayjean Hung, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute; Michael Brudno, University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts & Science, Department of Computer Science
Project Title: Advancing Equity in Special Education: Assessing Educator Impact and Inclusion Trends in North American K-12 Schools
Supervisors: Elizabeth Dhuey, University of Toronto Scarborough, Department of Management; Michal Perlman, University of Toronto, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
Project Title: Public Health-Informed ML: High-Risk Diabetic Identification via Multidimensional Data Integration
Supervisors: Karim Keshavjee, University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Zahra Shakeri, University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
Project Title: River flow generation at small temporal scale to better assess the potential costs of floods in infrastructure damage
Supervisors: Silvana Pesenti, Department of Statistical Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto; Nancy Reid, Department of Statistical Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
Project Title: Development of quantum machine learning methods for predicting covalent drug reactivity
Supervisors: Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto; Ulrich Fekl, Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga, University of Toronto
Project Title: Deep Generative Models for World-scale Environmental Models
Supervisors: David Duvenaud, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto; W. Richard Peltier, Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
Project Title: New Technologies and Evaluations for Novel Accented Speech Recognition
Supervisors: Ewan Dunbar, University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts & Science, Department of French; Gerald Penn, University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts & Science, Department of Computer Science
Project Title: Multimodal speech analytics in the remote detection and tracking of neurological diseases
Supervisors: Yana Yunusova, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Speech-Language Pathology; Ervin Sejdic, University of Toronto, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project Title: Log Gaussian Cox process to construct spatially continuous maps of disease risk
Supervisors: Patrick Brown, University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts & Science, Department of Statistical Sciences; Prabhat Jha, University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Project Title: Determining the patterns of emergency room admissions in the urban Indigenous population in Toronto: A longitudinal analysis of respondent-driven sampling data
Supervisors: Aya Mitani, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Janet Smylie, Unity Health Toronto
Project Title: Using Data Science and Causal Inference Methods to Evaluate Equity-Focused Impacts of School Closures on Childhood and Youth Mental Health in Canada During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Supervisors: Kuan Liu, Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Geoffrey Anderson, Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Jennifer Jenkins, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
