Assistant Professor - Public AI and Cultural Institutions
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Application Deadline: September 10, 2025 11:59PM ET
The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto St. George campus invites applications for a full-time tenure stream faculty position in Public AI and Cultural Institutions. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor and will commence July 1, 2026.
The successful candidate will be nominated for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair. In order to address systemic barriers and increase diversity in the Canada Research Chairs Program and meet government-mandated requirements, selection will be limited to candidates who identify as women and gender minorities, racialized persons/visible minorities, Indigenous Peoples, and/or persons with disabilities. This recruitment process follows the provisions for special programs as described by the Ontario Human Rights Commission. This strategic recruitment is an essential component of the University’s efforts to fulfill the commitments in our institutional Canada Research Chairs Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Action Plan and to address the persistent under-representation of women and gender minorities, racialized persons/visible minorities, Indigenous Peoples, and/or persons with disabilities among our cohort of Chairs. All applicants are required to self-identify as women and gender minorities, racialized persons/visible minorities, Indigenous Peoples, and/or persons with disabilities in their cover letter.
We seek applicants who bring an interdisciplinary and critical lens to intervene in global discussions of AI and whose research engages with the design, development, use, and/or evaluation of artificial intelligence within cultural institutions. Research areas can include, but are not limited to: the use of decentralized AI infrastructures within cultural memory activities; federated learning and edge AI for localized knowledge preservation; AI governance and data sovereignty in digital heritage institutions and collections; study and design of recommendation systems and ranking algorithms used in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) platforms; machine translation and cross-lingual information retrieval for globally distributed cultural artifacts and documents; integration of technologies to preserve and revitalize endangered languages, oral traditions and intangible heritage; use of AI to facilitate storytelling, annotation, or crowdsourced co-curation of public history. Scholars whose work is framed by decolonial, post-colonial, and anti-colonial approaches, social justice values, Indigeneity, accessibility and/or community-first methodologies are particularly encouraged to apply.
Applicants must have a Ph.D. or terminal degree in Information Science, Informatics, Data Science, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Urban Studies, Engineering, Museum or Heritage Studies, or a related discipline at the time of appointment or shortly thereafter.