Postdoctoral Associate

School of Medicine

Established in 1930, Duke University School of Medicine is the youngest of the nation's top medical schools. Ranked sixth among medical schools in the nation, the School takes pride in being an inclusive community of outstanding learners, investigators, clinicians, and staff where interdisciplinary collaboration is embraced and great ideas accelerate translation of fundamental scientific discoveries to improve human health locally and around the globe. Composed of more than 2,600 faculty physicians and researchers, nearly 2,000 students, and more than 6,200 staff, the Duke University School of Medicine along with the Duke University School of Nursing, and Duke University Health System comprise Duke Health, a world-class academic medical center. The Health System encompasses Duke University Hospital, Duke Regional Hospital, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Duke Health Integrated Practice, Duke Primary Care, Duke Home Care and Hospice, Duke Health and Wellness, and multiple affiliations.

The Postdoctoral Associate will apply his/her technical skills toward development and implementation of machine learning, computer vision, and other algorithms for analysis of medical images and prognostication as well as to other tasks related to this research program in order to solve important problems. He/she will likely implement different algorithms in Python and potentially other programming languages. The current and prior work of the lab include deep learning algorithms for detection, segmentation, and classification, including anomaly detection, and semi-supervised learning. He/she will work in a thriving research and clinical environment where he/she will be able to interact with researchers as well as clinicians. This appointment will allow for improving the candidate’s engineering skills as well as becoming familiar with current health care problems.

Qualifications:

The candidate for this position will be a highly motivated individual with experience in deep learning and a masters degree in computer science, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, biomedical informatics, biostatistics or a related discipline.

Required qualifications include (1) expertise and experience in machine learning, (2) proficiency in computer programming, (3) good verbal and written communication skills, (4) experience with preparing high quality scientific publications in the fields of machine learning, (5) experience with medical images.

Career development benefits:

Duke University is committed to mentoring and supporting young investigators. It offers multiple professional development seminars on topics including preparation of grant applications, academic promotion, presentation skills, writing, alternative career paths and other topics that will prepare the Research Associate for the future career in academia or industry. Dr. Mazurowski’s laboratory has a strong track record of publications by the trainees and the trainees of the Mazurowski lab have found strong positions after completing their training in the lab including faculty positions at leading institutions.

Min Degree Requirements:  Science related PhD degree or terminal degree

Minimum Qualifications

Education

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Experience

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