CIFellows Postdoc Job Opportunities

Posted on: Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Job Details:

Our interdisciplinary team designs computational methods to draw medically relevant conclusions from genomic data sets. This particular project is focused on applying such techniques to developing novel prenatal diagnostics and suggesting therapeutic interventions. Our goals include designing methods to mine new functional annotation specific to the early stages of human development and applying this annotation in clinical data analysis. This work heavily incorporates data mining and machine learning methods. We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to be a substantial contributor to this project.

The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in computer science, bioinformatics, or a closely related field, and experience working with high throughput gene expression, genotyping, next-generation sequencing, or other large-scale genomic data sets. Ability to design algorithms and rapidly implement and evaluate them is essential. Machine learning expertise a significant plus. Familiarity with genomic functional annotation databases such as the Gene Ontology is desirable. Applicants should have a demonstrated ability to perform research both independently and as part of a team, excellent communication skills including the ability to read and understand the relevant biomedical literature, and an interest in the potential clinical applications of our work.

Application Deadline:

Contact Information:

Send questions about this position to: Donna Cirelli

E-Mail: EMAIL OBFUSCATED

Phone: 617-627-2225

Application Deadline: Sept. 15, 2009

Categories Posted To:

AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision, Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining, Other