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CANSSI Ontario – Benchmarking AI Capability in Statistics and Data Science

Research Admin Offices:

  • ROADS

Funding Type:

Grant

Opportunity Type:

  • Grant

Value:

$10,000-$50,000 for one year

Disciplines:

  • DeGroote School of Business
  • Faculty of Engineering
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Faculty of Science
  • Faculty of Social Sciences

Sponsors:

  • Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI)

Deadlines:

Internal Deadline:

September 23, 2026

Sponsor Deadline:

September 30, 2026

Description:

The aim of this competition is to support projects that create high-quality benchmarks based on representative dataset slices to enable the evaluation of new AI models, while also developing AI-ready annotated and curated datasets.

Eligibility:

The project lead must be a faculty member at CANSSI Ontario partner university and they are eligible to apply if they meet the following criteria: a) they hold a faculty appointment in a statistics or biostatistics unit (department, division, or school), or b) they are a statistician or biostatistician faculty member appointed to a different unit with a PhD in statistics or biostatistics.

Resources:

Additional details. 

Contact:

For more information on how to apply, contact Christine Cluney, Senior Advisor, ROADS.