Do research that matters, with people at the centre.
AIRL recruits every year across undergraduate, graduate, and visiting-researcher pathways — and welcomes industry and community partners.
Pathways into the lab
Undergraduate researchers
UREAP awards ($7,000), Research Accelerate and Sustainability grants, and senior-design projects — with a strong record of co-authored publications in Q1/Q2 journals.
Graduate students
The Director holds Full Graduate Instructor/Supervisor status at TRU and supervises Master's and PhD research in medical AI, security, assistive tech, and applied ML.
Mitacs interns
Globalink Research Internships bring international students to Kamloops each summer for 12-week projects in AI, LLMs, data science, IoT, and computer vision.
Visiting researchers
Collaborative visits with partner institutions across our international co-investigator network.
Industry partners
Mitacs Accelerate co-funding, contract R&D, and prototype sprints — see Industry & Partnerships.
Community collaborators
We welcome dialogue with Indigenous communities and public-sector organizations on language technology, wildfire resilience, and health AI.
Get in touch
- Email a short statement of interest, your CV, and (for research roles) a transcript to the address on this page.
- Mention which pillar and sub-theme interests you — specificity helps us match projects.
- Prospective graduate students: review TRU program requirements and deadlines before writing.
Contact
Dr. Ghazanfar Latif
Founding Director, AIRL — AI Research Lab
Department of Computing Science
Thompson Rivers University
805 TRU Way, Kamloops, BC V2C 0C8, Canada
Email: glatif@tru.ca