Postdoctoral Research Assistant in AI for Healthcare (4x roles)

University of Oxford

Oxford

1 year ago

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four full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistants to join the Computational Health Informatics Lab at the Department of Engineering Science, based at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering in Headington. The posts are fixed-term for 12 months in the first instance, funded by World Health Organization, the Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission, the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The postholders will work on projects with international collaborators and colleagues from within the University to achieve a range of real-world outcomes, including pandemic readiness and response, identifying undiagnosed conditions, and the use of wearable devices for patient monitoring. You will be responsible for developing machine learning and AI algorithms for a range of data and applications (e.g. natural language processing, multivariate time-series data), to develop systems that improve the efficacy of machine learning-based technologies for healthcare applications. You must hold a PhD (or be near completion) in a field such as computer science, signal processing, biomedical engineering, have a strong record of publication in the engineering or computer science literature, and have in interest in the use of AI in healthcare Only online applications received before midday on the 7th January 2025 can be considered.

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