Postdoctoral Associate-Biostatistics

The candidate will be responsible for developing new methods, benchmarking their performance, and comparing with competing methods, and applying them to large-scale electronic health records data.

Candidates must have or expect to have by the position starting time a Ph.D. degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Computer Science, Mathematics/Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline. Candidates with experience in high-dimensional statistics, machine learning, or causal inference are preferred. A strong computational background is required. The initial term for the appointment is two years with the possibility of extensions. The successful candidate will join a team of faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students collaborating to create new methods for the analysis of high-dimensional biomedical datasets.

Interested candidates should apply using the following link: https://careers.duke.edu/job-invite/210917/
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