Post Doctoral Fellow - Computational Medicine

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Electrical Engineering Salary
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Commensurate with Experience/Education

Possesses, understands, and applies a comprehensive knowledge in area of specialization. Develops understanding and skills to allow for completion of assignments that cross fields of specialization. Develops leadership and management skills.

Specialized focus on AI, machine learning, and computational biology, particularly on integrating biomedical imaging, single-cell and spatial omics, and clinical data to advance cancer research and precision medicine.

Possesses, understands, and applies a comprehensive knowledge in area of specialization. Develops understanding and skills to allow for completion of assignments that cross fields of specialization. Develops leadership and management skills.

• Receives/Reviews progress and evaluates results of experiments or projects under control or supervisory responsibility.
• Recommends changes in research, testing or experimental procedures.
• May be responsible for a single highly technical and complex piece of research equipment.
• May review and evaluate the effectiveness of personnel.
• May plan for and assign personnel to projects under control.
• Operates with latitude for unreviewed action.
• May receive general supervision conferring with higher levels only in unusual situations.
• Performs other job-related duties as required.

The Spatial Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Houston is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Fellow to join our newly established and growing research team. Our researchdevelops AI and machine-learning methods to advance biological and clinical discovery, with particular interests in single-cell and spatial biology, biomedical imaging, and cancer research.

The successful candidate will have opportunities to lead interdisciplinary research projects, develop independent researchdirections, collaborate with biomedical and clinical investigators,and contribute to high-impact publications and grantproposals.

More information about the laboratory and current research can befound at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./

Our research aims to develop and deploy novel computational frameworks that integrate digital pathology, spatial andsingle-cell omics, genomics, and clinical data to model tissuearchitectures and signaling environments in health and disease,with the overarching goal of uncovering mechanisms underlyingtreatment resistance and advancing precision medicine.

• Develop and apply bioinformatics, machine learning anddeep-learning methods to extract biologically and clinicallyrelevant insights from multimodal biomedical datasets.
• Design, develop and maintain computational pipelines to analyze large-scale biomedical data including digital pathology images,spatial transcriptomics, single-cell data, genomics, and clinical data.
• Conduct research related to tissue characterization, feature extraction, tumor immune microenvironments and precisiononcology.
• Design and execute computational experiments and perform rigorousstatistical analyses.
• Prepare manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals and present…