Description:
The Hu lab in the Department of Biochemistry and Department of Computer Science at Western University, Canada is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow in artificial intelligence for health data science/bioinformatics. Western University ranks within the top 10 research-intensive universities in Canada and top 200 in the world (The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023). Dr. Hu is a Canada Research Chair in Computational Approaches to Health Research and has excellent experience in mentoring trainees at different levels. Many of his trainees have received international and national awards, accepted into top graduate schools (like Oxford, Cambridge, UCLA, CMU, Toronto, UBC, McGill), employed in high-tech companies (like Google, Microsoft, Amazon), and landed tenure-track professor position with nomination for Canada Research Chair.
Responsibilities:
The successful candidate is expected to join an interdisciplinary team to develop innovative deep learning algorithms to analyze multimodal data in one or two of the four areas: medical imaging analysis, genomic data integration, single cell RNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics, and drug design and discovery. The candidate will have the opportunities to supervise graduate and undergraduate students and contribute to the grant proposal preparation and writing process.
Qualifications:
The potential candidate should have: (1) PhD degree in quantitative sciences (statistics, mathematics, machine learning, computer engineering, bioinformatics, etc); Proficient in using different deep learning architectures in PyTorch; (3)Demonstrate ability to develop and publish new deep learning algorithms on top AI conferences and/or high-impact journals.
Individuals interested in this position should submit a cover letter clearly indicating their research interest and experience in one or multiple of the research areas, a curriculum vitae, and copies of 2 scientific papers. Applicants should include names and e-mail addresses of two potential referees and indicate the date they will be available to begin. All application materials must be submitted as PDFs in a single email to Dr. Pingzhao Hu (phu49@uwo.ca). Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. We appreciate all who express interests in this position, only those candidates short listed for interview will be contacted.