Research Assistant Student Position

Praxis Spinal Cord Institute (Praxis) is a Canadianbased notforprofit organization that leads global collaboration in spinal cord injury research innovation and care. We advance groundbreaking ideas that can be put into practice making lives better. We actively engage people living with spinal cord injuries and other worldclass experts to work together to identify and solve the most urgent challenges to make exceptional improvements in the health of people with spinal cord injuries. Praxis Spinal Cord Institute is proudly accredited by Imagine Canada and was named one of Canadas Top 100 Charities by Macleans and Money Sense magazines achieving an A rating.

Through a diverse workforce Praxis is committed to excellence in research innovation and care for people living with spinal cord injury. Praxis recognizes that a diverse workforce comprised of individuals with an array of identities abilities backgrounds cultures skills perspectives and experiences is vital to creativity growth and innovation and our success in making an impact on quality of life. We support our commitment by fostering an inclusive workplace which is fair equitable supportive welcoming and respectful allowing us to continue to transform health outcomes.

JOB SUMMARY

We are seeking a highly motivated Masters or PhD student with expertise in computational modeling machine learning and causal inference to contribute to cuttingedge research by applying causal models in large language models (LLMs) for spinal cord injury (SCI). This position will focus on leveraging advanced AI techniques to analyze disease progression and identify actionable insights for early diagnosis and personalized treatments. This is a 1year term parttime student role.

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Develop and implement causal modeling frameworks integrated with LLMs for SCI.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to refine models and validate results.
• Provide support in manuscript preparation and submission including proofreading and formatting manuscripts.
• Regularly monitor projects along with the Project Team including the planning through implementation to ensure timely milestones and deliverables.
  
• Perform researchrelated activities including literature search and synthesis and preparing research documents (protocols scientific abstracts conference presentations).
• Analyze multimodal datasets (e.g. clinical imaging and biomarker data) using machine learning and statistical methods.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Education:
  • Enrolled in a Masters or PhD program in Computer Science Data Science or Biomedical Engineering or a related field.
  • Strong background in machine learning causal inference and computational modeling.
  • Experience with programming languages such as Python or R; and familiarity with AI frameworks for LLMs.
• Experience:Any experience with the job duties described above and/or SCI would be an asset
• Skills & Behaviours:
  • Welldeveloped project coordination skills
  • Effective interpersonal and communication skills both oral and written
  • Ability to compose clear concise correspondence and presentations
  • Ability to set priorities and organize workload achieving results within acceptable timeframes taking into consideration changing priorities
  • Ability to work both independently and within a team environment
  • Familiarity with research in SCI or other health conditions an asset

HOW TO APPLY

Interested and qualified candidates can apply by May 15 2025. While we thank all applicants for their interest only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. For more information on Praxis please visit.

Praxis Spinal Cord Institute would like to acknowledge that the land on which we are located is on the unceded traditional territory of the Coast Salish Peoples specifically the shared traditional territories of the Swxw7mesh (Squamish) slililwta (TsleilWaututh) and xmkym (Musqueam) First Nation