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Dr. Feng Ji, assistant professor at the ¥������ (OISE), has been appointed a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Psychometrics and Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CRC).

Ji was named as one of 259 chairholders nationwide and 41 University of Toronto recipients as part of the Representing fields like natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences, a CRC leads research questions that seek to improve our depth of knowledge and quality of life.

CRC Tier 2 Chairs, who are tenable for five years and renewable once, are exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field.

“Being named a Canada Research Chair in Psychometrics and Responsible Artificial Intelligence is both an honour and a humbling recognition from my peers,” says Ji, who is based in OISE’s department of Applied Psychology and Human Development. “It underscores the growing need to ensure that advances in AI benefit the behavioural and social sciences in responsible and methodologically rigorous ways.”

Ji’s lab is seeking to develop responsible AI methods and applications tailored for educational and psychological research. “We integrate multimodal data to enhance measurement and assessment, improve the robustness and scalability of quantitative methods, and promote the ethical and transparent use of AI in research,” he says.

“Ultimately, we aim to make AI-driven approaches more interpretable, trustworthy, and useful for understanding how humans learn and behave.”

OISE is the top ranked educational research institution in Canada, according to recent lists by three official ranking bodies – Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), Times Higher Education (THE), and Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. At present, OISE houses seven Canada Research Chairs, of which Ji is the seventh.

"Professor Ji's research in psychometrics and machine learning is innovative and unique, and this Canada Research Chair appointment is richly deserved," said Professor Becky Chen, Associate Dean for the Office of Research, Partnership and Innovation. "His interdisciplinary approach is demonstrative of the depth and breadth of OISE's research prowess, and this Canada Research Chair appointment continues to advance OISE's academic mission.

"On behalf of the OISE community, I congratulate Professor Ji on this prestigious appointment."

For each Tier 2 Chair, the institution receives $100,000 annually for five years, with an additional $20,000 annual research stipend for first-term Tier 2 Chairs.