20%-40%, Zurich, fixed-term
Join a team of scientists improving the long-term prognosis and treatment of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) through mobile and wearable systems and personalized health monitoring.
Joining the SCAI Lab part of the Sensory-Motor Systems Lab at ETH, you will have the unique opportunity of working at one of the largest and most prestigious health providers in Switzerland: Swiss Paraplegic Center (SPZ) in Nottwil (LU).
Project background
SCAI Lab Student Assistant at ETH Zurich in collaboration with the Swiss Paraplegic Center (SPZ) at Nottwil. Within the framework of lifelong medical and social care, we are working with the SPZ to understand the causes and model the human body conditions resulting from spinal cord injury.
Job description
We are looking for a student assistant to support the data management plan, data engineering and software stack design.
Create algorithms, tools, and HMI for data retrieval and exploration interacting with different projects on motion analysis, rehabilitation & embodied sensing from wearables. Analysing data quantity and quality (40%) visualisation and graphical mapping (20%), validation, testing, and benchmarking ML algorithms (30%) and writing documentation (10%).
Starting Date: June 2023 (or shortly thereafter)
Your profile
- Student of a Swiss university or university of applied sciences (ETH Zurich, EPFL)
- Availability during the semester: 10~15 hours/week (1 day/week in Nottwil) - others in Zurich (to be discussed)
- Further availability during semester break: ~3+ days/week, to be discussed
- Knowledge of bash, python and data management principles
- Computer Systems and Network understanding (linux)
- Experience in databases (strongly preferred) - SQL
- ML and DL experience (preferred)
- Experience with Robotics Operating System (ROS) - (desirable)
Your workplace
Your workplace
We offer
- Learn and investigate Machine Learning methods for healthcare.
- Develop new data-driven models of the body and diseases.
- Build personalized devices and sensor systems.
- Develop algorithms to aid the decision-making process in therapeutic and clinical settings.
- Experience industry-level data processing and management systems.
- Salary: As defined by ETH regulations for student research assistants.
- Flexible working hours, possibility for part-time home office.
- Work within a team of interdisciplinary health professionals at Nottwil Campus (Luzern).
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We look forward to receiving your online application with the following documents:
- CV
- Transcripts
- Short motivation statement (<100 words)
- Example code with documentation or project report (Github link or other repo)
Please note that we exclusively accept applications submitted through our online application portal. Applications via email or postal services will not be considered.
Further information about HEST can be found on our website www.hest.ethz.ch . Questions regarding the position should be directed to Dr. Diego Paez, Email [email protected] (no applications).
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