AI Research Chair Program

Canadian universities play a critical role in the evolution of our country’s AI ecosystem.

Scale AI is investing up to $10M to fund Research Chairs in the field of AI applied to intelligent supply chains.

One of Scale AI’s strategic objectives is to establish an ecosystem that positions Canada among the world leaders in the field of AI applied to supply chains.

A key component to achieving this objective is the involvement of Canadian universities and their ability to conduct research that expands our understanding of AI and its applications in the field of intelligent supply chains.

To this day, Scale AI has supported 4 AI research chairs.

Chair	Titular	University
The Scale AI Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Urban Mobility and Logistics	Professor Carolina Osorio	HEC Montréal
The Scale AI Research Chair in Data-Driven Supply Chains	Professor Thibaut Vidal	Polytechnique Montréal
The Research Chair in Data-Driven Algorithms for Modern Supply Chains	Professor Elias Khalil	University of Toronto
The Scale AI Chair in Data Science for Retail	Professor Maxime Cohen	McGill University

Chaires

The Scale AI Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Urban Mobility and Logistics
Professor Carolina Osorio
HEC Montréal

The Scale AI Research Chair in Data-Driven Supply Chains
Professor Thibaut Vidal
Polytechnique Montréal

The Research Chair in Data-Driven Algorithms for Modern Supply Chains
Professor Elias Khalil
University of Toronto

The Scale AI Chair in Data Science for Retail
Professor Maxime Cohen
McGill University

Program structure

Each Research Chair must have a minimum value of $2M and must be operational for a total of five calendar years:

Scale AI will reimburse eligible costs of up to $1M associated with each Research Chair incurred before March 31, 2023
The Canadian university that will host the Research Chair will contribute a minimum of $1M over the five-year lifetime of the Research Chair.