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Harvard Medical School Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Deadline: I am reviewing applications as they arrive, as we may have immediate openings for very promising candidates, but please submit your materials no later than April 1, 2020.

 

NLP Postdoctoral Research Fellow Position at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School

The Health Natural Language Processing Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital is seeking post-doctoral research fellows to contribute to cutting edge research in the field of health natural language processing. We are looking for creative and diligent candidates to lead the development of deep neural network models for representing patients over time, in order to categorize by disease status, predict outcomes, and find clusters representing new diagnoses. We are especially interested in the areas of adult congenital heart disease and behavioral health.

The Research Fellow will be expected to lead publications, and will receive enthusiastic mentorship with the goal of preparing and submitting a career development award proposal, as well as other research proposals as appropriate.

This position provides an excellent opportunity for the Research Fellow to work within a multidisciplinary research team to explore advanced areas in health information technology. The Computational Health Informatics Program – CHIP – is home to 20 faculty working at the forefront of research areas extending beyond clinical NLP to digital epidemiology, clinical genomics, and app ecosystems for health records. CHIP and the Health NLP Lab value diversity and believe that it is essential to achieving excellence. We therefore strongly encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply.

The fellowship includes an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School, as well as a hospital appointment at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Qualifications

  • Our ideal candidate has PhD degree in computer science with experience in machine learning, with interest in biomedical applications. We encourage candidates from a variety of backgrounds to apply, if your experience and interests match the project goals.

  • Experience in research; ability to plan and carry out research experiments and projects.

  • Candidates with experience in the areas of machine learning, natural language processing/computational linguistics, and medical terminologies/ontologies are strongly encouraged to apply.

  • Programming experience in computer programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, etc).

  • Strong written and oral communication skills required.

  • Ability to work both independently and as a team player.

 

Application materials

  • Cover letter/summary statement of personal objective and research interests

  • CV

  • Three letters of reference (will be requested of finalists)

  • Sample publication with clearly stated individual contributions

 

Terms
The position is available immediately and is renewable annually.

How to apply
Interested candidates should email their application materials to:
Prof. Timothy Miller, PI Natural Language Processing Lab
tim.miller@gmail.com