Postdoctoral Fellowship

Investigative Journalism Foundation

18h•$85,000•Remote

About The Position

The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship as part of Professor Rohan Alexander’s NSERC Alliance project, Novel Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms for Analysis of Canadian Political Donations and Lobbying Data [ALLRP 599949-24]. The fellowship focuses on research in entity resolution, record linkage, data validation, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, and data cleaning. The Fellow will conduct research that advances the goal of the grant project, which is to develop new methods for working with messy, real-world public interest datasets. The Fellow will collaborate with the grant’s industry partner, the Investigative Journalism Foundation, on applied research. This fellowship does not involve teaching duties.

Requirements

PhD with strong quantitative training and research experience in statistics, computer science, data science or a closely related field.
Understanding of the history, development, and current state of their field(s) of research.
Willingness to work with a range of scholars both inside and outside of their own field.
Willingness to work closely with the industry partner.
Desire to learn and pursue research in an interdisciplinary, collaborative environment.
Ability to demonstrate excellence in research.
Established track record in their field(s) of study.
Completed doctorate within five years of the fellowship’s start date of September 1, 2026.
Academic CV.
Three best published research papers.
Undergraduate and graduate transcripts.
Link to GitHub profile.
Names and contact information for three academic referees.

Responsibilities

Conduct research related to entity resolution, record linkage, data validation, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, and data cleaning.
Advance the goal of the grant project by developing new methods for working with messy, real-world public interest datasets.
Collaborate with the grant’s industry partner, the Investigative Journalism Foundation, on applied research.