IBI and affiliated faculty are often seeking research fellows and staff. More information about current openings can be found below.
Postdoctoral Fellow, SemAnTICA Lab
The SemAnTICA (Semantic Analysis of Text for Informing Clinical Action) Lab, housed in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Informatics (DBEI), is led by Danielle Mowery PhD, Assistant Professor of Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania and Chief Research Information Officer of Penn Medicine through the Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI). Our mission is to develop natural language processing (NLP) solutions that support clinical and translational research studies for improving patient care by learning actionable knowledge from electronic health records.
We are currently seeking a postdoctoral fellow. An ideal candidate will develop novel natural language processing and computational methods for extracting study variables and inferring actionable knowledge from clinical text-based resources including clinical notes, audio transcripts, chatbots, and more. These methods will address use cases that span a variety of clinical specialties e.g., oncology, neurology, nutrition, dermatology and cardiology. As a member of the SemAnTICA Lab, the candidate will primarily participate in NLP research. The candidate may also collaborate with clinical data scientists from the IBI Clinical Research Informatics Core (CIC) within the Institute for Biomedical Informatics that serve the needs of clinical investigators throughout Perelman School of Medicine.
For this position, we seek a self-motivated candidate with a Ph.D. in computer science, biomedical informatics, computational linguistics, or related field. This position requires proficient skills in Python or Java, machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge representations, and ontologies. Some experience using deep learning is a plus. This position is supported for 1 year with a possible 2nd year upon review.
Qualified applicants should send their cover letter, curriculum vitae, and 3 exemplar manuscripts of their work to dlmowery@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
The University of Pennsylvania was founded by Benjamin Franklin and is centrally located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Perelman School of Medicine is one of the top-ranked medical schools for research and National Institute of Health (NIH) funding. The University of Pennsylvania is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Minorities/Women/Individuals with disabilities/Protected Veterans are encouraged to apply for this position.
Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Fellow
The Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the Institute for Biomedical Informatics seek a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to apply advanced computational and statistical methods to better understand the pathophysiology, genetics, and clinical heterogeneity of various forms of vasculitis. The systemic vasculitides are a group of rare diseases characterized by severe inflammation of blood vessels leading to arterial stenosis or occlusion, and multi-organ damage or death, if untreated. Multimodal data to be studied come from the Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium. A central goal of the proposed research project is to utilize cutting-edge statistical and machine learning methods to develop predictive models of vasculitis and related clinical outcomes that embrace their heterogeneity and complexity. Qualified applicants should have a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Epidemiology, or a related quantitative discipline. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in machine learning with application to genetics and genomics data. The postdoctoral fellow will be co-mentored by senior faculty from the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Epidemiology, the Institute for Biomedical Informatics, and the Penn Vasculitis Center that together provide a rich scientific environment for translational research using computational and statistical methods.
Qualified applicants should send their cover letter, curriculum vitae, and 3 exemplar manuscripts of their work to ibi@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
The University of Pennsylvania was founded by Benjamin Franklin and is centrally located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Perelman School of Medicine is one of the top-ranked medical schools for research and National Institute of Health (NIH) funding. The University of Pennsylvania is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Minorities/Women/Individuals with disabilities/Protected Veterans are encouraged to apply for this position.
Informatics openings at CHOP:
Postdoctoral research position in the Shen Lab
The University of Pennsylvania was founded by Benjamin Franklin and is centrally located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Perelman School of Medicine is one of the top-ranked medical schools for research and National Institute of Health (NIH) funding. The University of Pennsylvania is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Minorities/Women/Individuals with disabilities/Protected Veterans are encouraged to apply for this position.
