Postdoctoral Research Scientist - GenomeWeb : Job Details

Columbia University in the City of New York 622 W. 168th St, PH-20, New York, NY 10032, United States

Salary: $71,050 - $75,000

Position Overview: A Postdoctoral Research Scientist position in foundation models for health AI is available in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Scientist to join the lab of Dr. Matthew McDermott in the Department of Biomedical Informatics to help to build state-of-the-art frontier models to better understand medical data.

This is an in-person position in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at the Columbia University Medical Center campus in New York City. Some hybrid options will be considered, but a regular, strong in-person presence is required without significant exigent circumstances.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build Foundation Models for Health AI: Build models capable of zero-shot reasoning and nuanced data understanding over medical record data (e.g., EHR or multi-modal data). This role will not focus on using or evaluating LLMs or CV Diffusion models on medical text or imaging, respectively.
• Deliver Generalizable Methodological Contributions: Produce generalizable insights into how to build effective models on general health data for health problems; deployment into individual health systems is not the primary focus, though indirect relevance may arise for specific projects.
• Collaborate and Publish in an Interdisciplinary Manner: Collaborate with and lead teams spanning methodological and clinical contributors, working with thought leaders at Columbia DBMI and beyond. Publish in top-tier CS and Health Informatics venues.
• Independently Lead Projects with Students and Collaborators: Independently lead projects with students and collaborators with minimal oversight. Opportunity to publish last-author papers in this role.
• Help Write Grants: Contribute to grant-writing in this research space, providing valuable experience for an academic career.
• Contribute to a Reproducible, Open-source Health AI Ecosystem: Develop code and research contributions in a manner conducive to communal use, through the MEDS framework and ecosystem. Some degree of effective software development is important in this role.

• Ph.D. in computer science, health informatics, or equivalent.

If you are interested in applying for this position, please use the link provided and submit your application for the position of Postdoctoral Research Scientist.