Postdoctoral Associate
About The Position
The Postdoctoral Researcher will play a key role in developing and applying cutting-edge AI methods to analyze large-scale clinical datasets, including electronic health records (EHR), unstructured clinical text and multi-omics data. The candidate is required to have a Ph.D. in biomedical informatics, computer science, information science, data science, (bio)-statistics, (applied) mathematics, or a related STEM field. In particular, the Postdoctoral Researcher will lead and assist with data modeling, AI/ML methods, software package development, scientific paper writing, and grant proposal writing. This position will work under the guidance of Dr. Rui Yin, in collaboration with a team of data scientists, clinicians, bioinformaticians and computer scientists to fulfill the research and service missions of the BMI program.
Requirements
- Ph.D. degree in biomedical informatics/bioinformatics, computer science, data science, electronic/biomedical engineering, mathematics or related majors
Nice To Haves
- Prior working experience with EHR data
- Prior working experience with machine learning
- Prior working experience with NLP
- Prior working experience with bioinformatics
- Prior working experience with large language models (LLM)
- Strong passion and motivation for research with a desire to solve practical biomedical problems.
- Research experience and expertise in data mining, machine learning and LLM/NLP/PLM in biomedical domains.
- Domain knowledge in one of the diseases, including AD/ADRD, cancer, diabetes, liver disease and infectious diseases (e.g., autoimmune or other immune-related diseases).
- Demonstration of publications, teamwork and communication in English.
- Experience in grant writing (optional but advantageous).
Responsibilities
- Lead and assist with data modeling
- Lead and assist with AI/ML methods
- Lead and assist with software package development
- Lead and assist with scientific paper writing
- Lead and assist with grant proposal writing
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
