Announcing CANSSI Ontario’s 2025 Cohort of Mdoc Trainees: Benjamin Smith

Benjamin Smith is a PhD student in the Department of Statistical Sciences (DoSS), working under the joint supervision of Professors Jesse Gronsbell (DoSS) and Karen Tu (Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, U of T).

Together, they will work on the Mdoc project “Positive-unlabeled learning methods to advance electronic health records research.” They are dedicated to developing scalable statistical methodologies and contributing to computational innovations in data science.

Currently, Benjamin is working on faster estimation of machine learning models and evaluation of fairness of machine learning models. He has authored and co-authored several software packages which have been released on CRAN, GitHub and other open source outlets.

CANSSI Ontario launched the Multidisciplinary Doctoral (Mdoc) Training Program in the DoSS in 2019. Students admitted to the Mdoc Program can be domestic or international and will receive the same funding package as the other doctoral students entering the DoSS including Teaching Assistant assignments. Learn more.