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Indiana University · 2 months ago

Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics and Health Data Science

Indianapolis, IN

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

Indiana University is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to advance research in artificial intelligence for healthcare and multimodal data analysis. The role involves leading original research, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, and developing methods to improve patient outcomes and health system operations.

Higher Education

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead original research in multimodal and causal AI for health; design, implement, and rigorously evaluate algorithms and full pipelines

Build reproducible research pipelines and maintain reliable experiment codebases (prefer Python)

Apply causal inference and discovery frameworks to clinical questions

Translate proposed methods and frameworks into real-world clinical workflows

Contribute to grant proposals and research reports

Qualification

Machine LearningDeep LearningMultimodal LearningCausal InferencePythonHealthcare Data ExperienceML ToolingData EngineeringCommunicationCollaboration Skills

Required

Ph.D. (by start date) in Computer Science, Biomedical Informatics, Health Data Science, Biostatistics, or a closely related area

Strong ML/deep learning foundation plus expertise in at least one of: multimodal learning, time-series modeling, or NLP

Demonstrated working experience with healthcare data (e.g., EHR, clinical text, imaging, omics)

Proficiency in Python and ML tooling (e.g., PyTorch, scikit-learn), version control (Git), and experiment tracking (e.g., Weights & Biases)

Excellent written and oral communication skills, and ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams

Preferred

Experience with LLMs/foundation models (e.g., clinical NLP, retrieval-augmented generation, instruction tuning) and multimodal transformers

Solid understanding of causal methods (e.g., propensity scores, IPW, matching) and/or causal discovery

Familiarity with data engineering and MLOps (e.g., SQL, Spark, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes)

Knowledge of responsible/ethical AI for health: fairness/equity, interpretability, robustness, privacy (e.g., differential privacy, federated learning)

Track record of first-author publications in relevant venues and collaborative open-source contributions

Company

Indiana University

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Indiana University looked for ways to promote innovation while assisting students in building better futures.

Founded in 1820

Bloomington, Indiana, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.iu.edu

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