2025 PhD Candidate Job Market Board

The CANSSI Ontario PhD Candidate Job Market Board seeks to highlight PhD students from CANSSI Ontario partner universities who are seeking employment opportunities in 2025.

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Matthew Kreitzer

PhD Candidate, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest: Applied Mathematics, Cellular Automata, Graph theory, Combinatorics, Robot spacial coding, Agent based modelling, Neural Networks, Large Language Models

Publication(s):
Using alternating de Bruijn sequences to construct de Bruijn tori.
Evolving Diverse Cellular Automata Based Level Maps.
The Orthogonality of Sequential Products in Sequential Effect Algebras

PhD Supervisor(s):
Nica Mihai
Rajesh Pereira

Maryam Onifade

PhD Candidate, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest: Biostatistics, Statistical Genetics, Population Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology, Data Science

Publication(s):
Comparison of mixed model based approaches for correcting for population substructure with application to extreme phenotype sampling.

PhD Supervisor(s):
Kelly Burkett

Ali Sadeghkhani

PhD Candidate, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Windsor

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest: Risk Management - Insurance and Reinsurance Sectors.

Publication(s):
Interval-Valued Random Matrices

PhD Supervisor(s):
Abdulkadir Hussein

Grace Tompkins

PhD Candidate, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest: Bayesian Inference, Risk Modeling, Predictive Modeling skills, Quantile Regression Modeling, P&C Actuarial Pricing, Statistical Decision Making

Publication(s):
On Flexible Inverse Probability of Treatment and Intensity Weighting: Informative Censoring, Variable Inclusion, and Weight Trimming.

PhD Supervisor(s):
Michael Wallace
Joel Dubin

Augustine Wigle

PhD Candidate, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo

Chi Zhang

PhD Candidate, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest: Functional data analysis, non-parametric statistics, machine learning, casual inference, biostatistics

Publication(s):
Consistency of binary segmentation for multiple change-point estimation with functional data.
Two-sample inference for sparse functional data.

PhD Supervisor(s):
Peijun Sang
Yingli Qin