The Greiner Lab,
in the University of Alberta (Edmonton) and Amii (the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute),
is looking for a talented, knowledgeable and ambitious candidate for a 2-year post-doctoral fellow (PDF) position in machine learning, to work with our team to address a number of very interesting, and important, medical-informatics tasks – related to
- epidemiology (population disease forecasting),
- bio-chemical analysis,
- …
as well as foundational topics, especially
- survival prediction
- counterfactual reasoning … effectively learning personalized treatment effects
- ...
You will be expected to:
- Participate in relevant research… and direct several projects
- Work with (and perhaps co-supervise) various students
- Collaborate with many colleagues, in both machine learning and medicine/healthcare
- (Co)write high-impact scientific publications
- Present your work at leading conferences
- Develop tools that can be used by researchers, and practitioners
What do we require?
- PhD in computing science or a related area, with a focus on machine learning and statistics
- Experience in Medical Informatics is a plus!
- Evidence of high-quality research… eg, publications in relevant top-tier venues (ML, medicine, …)
- Effective communicator (in English), both written and spoken
Job application:
We expect to fill this position by February 2023 but the start date is negotiable. Please send the following information (preferably in a single PDF file) to
[email protected], with subject PDF Medical Informatics 2023 :
- A letter summarizing your past work and insights on this topic,
and perhaps specific future directions - Your curriculum vitae, including a list of publications
- Contact information for (at least) two references
For more information, see https://tinyurl.com/PDF-MedInfo-Amii .