UTHealth
Assistant Professor, non-tenure track for Center for Secure Artificial Intelligence for hEalthcare (SAFE) - School of Biomedical Informatics (Finance)
The Center for Secure Artificial Intelligence for hEalthcare (SAFE) at the School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI), the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) seeks an exceptional candidate for a non-tenure track position at the assistant professor level in the areas of machine learning and drug discovery.
UTHealth is in the world-renowned Texas Medical Center (TMC), located in cosmopolitan Houston, Texas, the fourth largest city in the United States. SBMI currently offers PhD and Master's degrees; it also features certificate programs in biomedical and health informatics.
RESPONSIBILITIES: The successful candidate will focus on applications of machine learning to address important and emerging clinical informatics problems, as well as related areas. The candidate will provide technical expertise to lead in the development of study design, sample or data collection, pipeline development, data analysis, and results interpretation. Collaborative research with other faculty in the SAFE, at SBMI, and across UTHealth, Rice University, and the Texas Medical Center (e.g., MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine, etc.) is strongly encouraged.
QUALIFICATIONS: The candidate should possess a doctoral degree in computer science, biomedical informatics, mathematics, statistics, or a related discipline. He/she is expected to have experience in both machine learning and data mining, with the capacity to apply that expertise to the medical informatics domain. Strong algorithmic development and programming skills are required for this position, as are excellent teamwork and communication skills. Representative tasks for this position may include developing computational phenotypes, drug repurposing research, and optimizing clinical workflows, among others.
APPOINTMENTS/BENEFITS: This position is a full time, 12-month appointment on the non-tenure track, renewable on a yearly basis.
SALARY: Competitive and dependent upon qualifications and experience.
This is a security sensitive position and thereby subject to Texas Education Code ยง 51.215. A background check will be required for the final candidate.