Postdoctoral Fellow - Machine Learning in Medicine

This position has an appointment of 1 year, and offers a benefits package found at Postdoctoral Fellows Benefits.

Location - This role is in-person at North Campus Edmonton.

Founded in 1964, the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta is the oldest and one of the largest computing science departments in Canada. We have an international reputation for contributions in the many fields of computing, both in foundations and applications. The Department currently consists of 51 faculty members, approximately 326 graduate students, 20 post-doctoral fellows and research associates, 1,352 undergraduate students and 12 administrative staff. Our research partners come from a wide variety of industries and other academic disciplines.

We are looking for a talented, knowledgeable and ambitious candidate to research several interesting medical-informatics tasks related to epidemiology (population disease forecasting) and bio-chemical analysis, as well as foundational topics, especially survival prediction and counterfactual reasoning, towards effectively learning personalized treatment effects. You will be working with the Greiner Lab at the University of Alberta & the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii).

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