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�鶹����’s has secured 14 awards – eight doctoral students and six postdoctoral researchers – from the Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards to support priority research areas in artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, clean energy, and cancer therapeutics. These awards represent $1.8 million in funding for �鶹����’s.  

Across the country, a total of 659 training awards, of which 14 have gone to �鶹����'s, have been offered to nominees from 72 countries, representing a commitment of $84.3 million over three years, the first phase of a $133.6 million total investment. Research areas identified as national priorities under the initiative include advanced digital technologies, health and biotechnology, clean technology, environment and climate resilience, and defence and dual-use technologies. Doctoral scholarships are valued at $40,000 per year for three years, and postdoctoral research awards at $70,000 per year for two years.

“�鶹����’s champions the recruitment of outstanding talent through the Canada Impact+ Research program,” says Nancy Ross, Vice-Principal (Research). “We look forward to welcoming these ambitious early-career researchers into our community and supporting their research pursuits. Congratulations to the Impact+ doctoral and postdoctoral recipients.”

�鶹����’s recipients of the Research Talent Awards

Negin Rahimiyazdi (Supervisor: Bahman Gharesifard): NSERC Doctoral – Model collapse in generative AI

Sabbir Ahmed (Supervisor: Salimur Choudhury): NSERC Doctoral – Quantum machine learning for decision making

Quynh Ho (Supervisor: Cao Thang Dinh): NSERC Doctoral – Selective and stable catalysts for carbon dioxide conversion

Baoyan Liu (Supervisor: Graeme Howe): NSERC Doctoral – Designer biocatalysts for nylon recycling: AI-driven enzyme engineering to transform plastic waste

Zelalem Demeke (Supervisor: Heather Aldersey): CIHR Doctoral – Improving early powered mobility services in childhood disability

Seyedeh Sepideh Javadi (Supervisor: Saeed Gazor): NSERC Doctoral – AI-driven signal processing for sustainable and intelligent wireless networks

Kamaraja Siddartha Chaganti (Supervisor: Bhavin Shastri): NSERC Doctoral – Development and scaling up of photonic ising machines

Abdul Rauf Alhassan (Supervisor: Elijah Bisung): SSHRC Doctoral – Climate shocks, household resource securities, and social protection

Abhinav Sharma (Supervisor: Mark Daymond): NSERC Postdoctoral – Effects of irradiation on fatigue

Mohammad Amin Dabbagh Ohadi (Supervisor: Douglas Cook): CIHR Postdoctoral – Optimizing self-amplifying RNA therapeutics for glioblastoma

Eun Ju Son (Supervisor: Sari van Anders): SSHRC Postdoctoral – Ensuring democratic resilience amidst racialized anti-feminist backlash

Andre Guerra (Supervisor: Kevin Stamplecoskie): NSERC Postdoctoral – Machine-learning cancer drug design: force field development for N-heterocyclic carbene functionalized gold nanoclusters

Zeeshan Manzoor Bhat (Supervisor: Amir Fam): NSERC Postdoctoral – Next generation climate-resilient and energy-efficient housing

Paramesh Jangili (Supervisor: P. Andrew Evans): NSERC Postdoctoral – High-payload antibody–dendrimer conjugates for targeted inhibition of cancer metastasis

The Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards are one stream of the , a $1.7 billion strategy announced in Budget 2025 that aims to attract more than 1,000 international researchers, including Francophone researchers, to Canada. The initiative also includes the , the , and the . The awards are administered by Canada's three federal research funding agencies: the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). �鶹����’s has been actively recruiting for these opportunities since late-2025.  

To learn more about �鶹����'s University's involvement in the Canada Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative and the university's strategic research priority areas, visit the Vice-Principal Research Portfolio website.