York University’s Chairholders are recognized as both established and emerging research leaders in their fields. Fostering their world-leading expertise on 21st century issues supports the University’s mission to be in service of society and the public good.
Featured Research Chairs
Doug Crawford
YRC in Visuomotor NeuroscienceCrawford, Faculty of Health, is a Distinguished Research Professor in Neuroscience and the Scientific Director of the VISTA program. His work has focused on the control of visual gaze in 3D space, eye-hand coordination and spatial memory during eye movements.
Jimmy Huang
YRC in Big Data AnalyticsHuang, School of Information Technology, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, works to develop next-generation information retrieval techniques for a variety of information search applications by extracting knowledge by automatically searching and analyzing big textual, medical and social media data.
Canada Research Chairs
The Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program is a Government of Canada initiative and stands at the centre of a national strategy to make Canada one of the world's top countries in research and development.
The federal government makes significant investments each year to attract and retain some of the world’s most accomplished and promising research talent.
York Research Chairs
York Research Chairs are the University’s internal counterpart to the national CRC program and represent a diverse group of groundbreaking researchers dedicated to the pursuit and dissemination of new knowledge and discovery.
