Postdoc Position in Machine Learning in Biomedicine University of Zurich Department of Quantitative Biomedicine

Department of Quantitative Biomedicine Postdoc Opening in Machine Learning in Biomedicine 100 % The University of Zurich together with the University Hospital of Zurich are embarking on a concerted effort to develop informatics programs to advance biomedical research and healthcare using cutting edge computational approaches. As part of these efforts, the newly created Chair of Medical Informatics will establish a research group that will investigate topics in clinical data science and translational bioinformatics, such as knowledge discovery from Big Data sources (Electronic Medical Record), development of Natural Language processing, information retrieval and extraction routines, as well as the analysis of human Omics data. The group is headed by Prof. Michael Krauthammer who is joining the University of Zurich after having led a research group in biomedical informatics at Yale University. Your responsibilities For this position, we are looking for motivated PostDoc candidates who are interested in applying their computational skills to medical as well as biological problems. One key goal is the building of predictive algorithms for guiding patient therapy across all disease stages. We offer an interdisciplinary research environment, the possibility to direct your own research and access to state-of-the-art computational resources infrastructure (further details are listed below). Your profile PhD degree in computer science (focused on machine learning), optimization, statistics, applied math or closely related discipline Strong publication record with at least one first-author paper in top-tier conferences (such as NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, CVPR, AISTATS, AAAI, ICLR, etc.) Proficient in Python and the scientific computing stack (SciPy, Numpy, Scikit-learn, pandas) Proficient in one of the deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, Tensorflow). What we offer Access to state-of-the-art infrastructure (computational resources), clinical datasets and medical expertise domain-knowledge (excellent medical doctors and research scientists) Ability to make a real and tangible impact in healthcare research Solve real-world problems and improve hospital-related process and workflow Stimulating research environment and a place to grow academically and professionally Outstanding working conditions at the University of Zurich (more details here). Place of work Zurich, Switzerland Start of employment Employment start date to be mutally agreed. Further information For further information, please contact Dr. Ahmed Allam. Apply now If you apply for this position please say you saw it on Medicinoxy

Department of Quantitative Biomedicine

Postdoc Opening in Machine Learning in Biomedicine
100 %

The University of Zurich together with the University Hospital of Zurich are embarking on a concerted effort to develop informatics programs to advance biomedical research and healthcare using cutting edge computational approaches. As part of these efforts, the newly created Chair of Medical Informatics will establish a research group that will investigate topics in clinical data science and translational bioinformatics, such as knowledge discovery from Big Data sources (Electronic Medical Record), development of Natural Language processing, information retrieval and extraction routines, as well as the analysis of human Omics data. The group is headed by Prof. Michael Krauthammer who is joining the University of Zurich after having led a research group in biomedical informatics at Yale University.

Your responsibilities

For this position, we are looking for motivated PostDoc candidates who are interested in applying their computational skills to medical as well as biological problems. One key goal is the building of predictive algorithms for guiding patient therapy across all disease stages. We offer an interdisciplinary research environment, the possibility to direct your own research and access to state-of-the-art computational resources infrastructure (further details are listed below).

Your profile

PhD degree in computer science (focused on machine learning), optimization, statistics, applied math or closely related discipline
Strong publication record with at least one first-author paper in top-tier conferences (such as NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, CVPR, AISTATS, AAAI, ICLR, etc.)
Proficient in Python and the scientific computing stack (SciPy, Numpy, Scikit-learn, pandas)
Proficient in one of the deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, Tensorflow).

What we offer

Access to state-of-the-art infrastructure (computational resources), clinical datasets and medical expertise domain-knowledge (excellent medical doctors and research scientists)
Ability to make a real and tangible impact in healthcare research
Solve real-world problems and improve hospital-related process and workflow
Stimulating research environment and a place to grow academically and professionally
Outstanding working conditions at the University of Zurich (more details here).