Tenure-Track Position in AI for Health
University of Alberta — Edmonton, AB, Canada
Posted 2026-10-20
Location - This role is in-person. Work primarily takes place at North Campus, Edmonton. The Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, starting as early as July 1st, 2027, in the broad area of AI/Health. We are looking for a researcher who advances the foundations of machine learning, through new theory, algorithms, or models, and whose research questions mostly come from clinical and biomedical practice. The successful candidate will work closely with clinician scientists and health researchers in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry and at the University of Alberta Hospital, while maintaining a strong methodological research program within Computing Science. The areas of interest include but are not limited to: Machine Learning Algorithms for Health Reinforcement Learning & Sequential Decision-Making for Treatment Causal Learning Multimodal and Heterogeneous Data Methods NLP for Health Computer Vision for Health Interpretable & Trustworthy AI Privacy-Preserving ML The Department of Computing Science is one of the largest and oldest computing science departments in Canada. The Department has 54