Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Fathi Kazerooni

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia • Philadelphia, PA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join a multidisciplinary research team focused on developing and translating artificial intelligence (AI) methods for pediatric neuro-oncology. The fellow will contribute to cutting-edge research integrating imaging, clinical, and molecular data to improve diagnosis, risk stratification, and treatment monitoring of brain tumors. This position offers the opportunity to work on large-scale, multi-institutional datasets and contribute to high-impact publications, open science initiatives, and collaborative consortia.

Requirements

• Doctorate - Required
• PhD in Biomedical or Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• Strong background in machine learning and/or deep learning
• Experience with Python and relevant libraries (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn)
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to publish in peer-reviewed journals
• Ability to wear a respirator device

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with medical imaging data (preferred: MRI)
• Experience with multimodal data integration (imaging + clinical + omics)
• Familiarity with neuro-oncology or medical imaging workflows
• Experience with survival analysis (e.g., Cox models, DeepSurv)
• Knowledge of radiomics and/or segmentation methods (e.g., nnU-Net)
• Experience working with large, multi-institutional datasets

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement machine learning and deep learning models for medical imaging and multimodal data analysis
• Design and conduct research studies involving MRI, clinical variables, and multi-omic datasets
• Lead and contribute to manuscripts, abstracts, and grant proposals
• Perform data preprocessing, quality control, and curation of large-scale imaging and clinical datasets
• Collaborate with clinicians, radiologists, and data scientists across institutions
• Contribute to development of reproducible pipelines and benchmarking frameworks
• Present research findings at internal meetings and national/international conferences
• Conduct independent scholarly research and develop new methods and protocols
• Participate in project planning, recording and evaluation of data
• Acquire technical, lab management and grant writing skills
• Participate in seminars, lectures, poster sessions and presentation at national meetings
• Supervise junior lab members
• Assist with other research projects

Benefits

• Annual influenza vaccine

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree