Postdoctoral researcher in Responsible NLP and ML for healthcare

12 Mar 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

Amsterdam UMC

Research Field

Medical sciences

Researcher Profile

Recognised Researcher (R2)

Country

Netherlands

Application Deadline

16 Mar 2024 - 22:59 (UTC)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Not Applicable

Hours Per Week

36.0

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

You will join the "CaRe-NLP: Human-Centric and Responsible NLP methods for Dutch healthcare" project. CaRe-NLP's main goal is to develop human-centric and responsible NLP and ML methods for healthcare in the Netherlands, Europe, and worldwide. CaRe-NLP's focus is methodological, meaning you will focus on developing, building, and testing state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) that ensure privacy and fairness, prevent bias, cope with data scarcity, and are interpretable and explainable.

You tackle relevant clinical problems and will develop methods for non-English (including Dutch) healthcare data that include (combinations of) free-text clinical notes collected in primary/secondary/intensive care settings, medical images, time series measurements, medical knowledge graphs, and multi-modal electronic heath records (EHRs).

• You are an ambitious early-career researcher who will help steer the CaRe-NLP project and who will co-lead one or more of its research lines;
• You will liaise with a network of clinical partners of the CaRe-NLP project and will tackle relevant healthcare problems using rich real-world clinical data;
• You will have access to excellent HPC facilities and strong support to publish the results of your work in the best scientific conferences and journals in NLP, ML, AI, and healthcare in general;
• You will have the opportunity to contribute to mentoring of master's and PhD students and to contribute to relevant teaching activities in the department;
• Moreover, you will have ample room for personal and professional development.

Requirements
Specific Requirements

Prerequisites:

• PhD in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or related disciplines;
• Strong technical background and ample experience with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning methods, toolkits, and best practices;
• Experience with one or more of the main (methodological) research lines in CaRe-NLP: privacy and fairness in NLP, bias in NLP, low-resource NLP, interpretable and explainable NLP;
• Strong programming skills in Python and ML libraries (PyTorch);
• Responsible, independent and resilient mindset and fluent in English.

Not required but helpful:

• Experience with clinical data and related application areas (e.g., cancer, primary/intensive care);
• Experience with the management and administration of scientific research projects and writing grant proposals;
• Contribution to open-source projects.

Additional Information
Benefits

• Fully-funded position: we offer an appointment for two years (24 months) with the intention to extend for another 36 months upon good performance.
• Salary scale 11: € 4.498 - € 6.156 with a 36 hour week (depending on qualifications and experience).
• Besides a good basic salary, you will also receive an 8.3% year-end bonus and 8% holiday allowance.
• Free and unlimited access to our online learning environment GoodHabitz.
• Pension accrual with BeFrank, a modern, understandable, and well-priced pension.
• Excellent accessibility by public transport and reimbursement of a large part of your transport costs. We also have a good bicycle scheme if you cycle, and sufficient parking spaces in case you drive.
• An active personnel association and the Young Amsterdam UMC association, both of which organize fun (sports) activities and events.

Additional comments

Applications will be considered until March 15. Intended start date: April 15 or as soon as possible thereafter.

During the publication period, applications will be handled continuously. If the vacancies are filled, they will be closed prematurely.
If you have any questions about this position, please feel free to contact Iacer Calixto, via [email protected] .

For more information about the application procedure, please contact Chey Edwards, Recruitment Advisor, via [email protected] or via +31 6 214 87 245.

A reference check, screening and hiring test may be part of the procedure. Read here whether that applies to you. If you join us, we ask you for a VOG (Certificate of Good Conduct).

Internal candidates will be given priority over external candidates in case of equal suitability.

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.

Website for additional job details

https://www.academictransfer.com/338329/

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Amsterdam UMC

Country

Netherlands

City

Amsterdam

Postal Code

1105AZ

Street

Meibergdreef 9

Geofield

Where to apply

Website

https://www.academictransfer.com/en/338329/postdoctoral-researcher-in-responsib…

Contact

City

Amsterdam Zuidoost

Website

https://www.amsterdamumc.org/

Street

Meibergdreef 9

Postal Code

1105 AZ

STATUS: EXPIRED