"Associate Research Scientist"

Position Overview

An Associate Research Scientist position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Chunhua Weng in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City. This opening is enabled by several NIH funded research projects.

Duties and Responsibilities

The ideal candidate is expected to work closely with a highly collaborative interdisciplinary team including experts in clinical phenotyping, natural language processing, and clinical informatics to (1) conduct innovative and reproducible AI and NLP research guided by the specific aims in the funded project and (2) disseminate results through quality publications and open-source algorithms and software.

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Computer Science/Engineering, Biomedical or Electronic Engineering, Data Science, Biostatistics, Biomedical or Health Informatics, Information Science, or other quantitatively oriented population health fields; or an M.D. with a strong computational background.

Additional Qualifications

• Experienced with modern data mining and machine learning methods.
• Proficient with computer programming in popular languages such as Python or Java.
• Experienced with large language models for text or unstructured data processing.
• Excellent communication and writing skills, including record of peer-reviewed manuscript writing and scientific presentations in related research areas.
• Has published 2-3 first-authored, peer-reviewed publications.

Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

Pay Transparency Disclosure

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.