Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics and Health Data Science

Position Summary

Postdoctoral Researcher to advance research at the intersection of artificial intelligence for healthcare, multimodal data analysis (EHRs, medical imaging, omics, physiological signals, clinical notes), and causal AI (causal inference, discovery, counterfactual reasoning). The successful candidate will collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, biomedical informaticians, clinicians, and public health researchers to develop deployable, trustworthy methods that improve patient outcomes and health system operations.

Key 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.

Additional Details

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing BHDS Department with 36 faculty members and more than 50 professional staff. We are dedicated to excellence in biostatistical, health data science, and informatics research and education. We have an extensive portfolio of research programs in related areas. Our NIH funding as principal investigators and co-investigators has been ranked among the top in the nation. The Department currently has an ongoing PhD program in Biostatistics, MS program in Biostatistics, and BS program in Health Data Science. We have established strong collaborations with both clinical and basic science research departments and divisions and health systems including IU Health and Eskenazi Hospitals as well as strong partnerships with major research institutes and centers including Regenstrief Institute, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), Indiana University Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, Indiana Institute of Biomedical Research, and Indiana Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

Contact Information

The Department Contact for Questions is Professor Jiang Bian via email at: bianj@regenstrief.org