Research Fellow – Medical Informatics

Job Summary

The Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine at Mass General Brigham/Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS), invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical informatics and artificial intelligence (AI) in health care.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborating with a multidisciplinary team of researchers, clinicians, and data scientists to achieve project goals.
• Participating in the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of proposed system and methods.
• Leading or contributing to the design and development of novel AI/informatics methods and applications.
• Conducting data analysis and system evaluation.
• Leading or contributing to manuscript preparation, writing, and submission to peer-reviewed journals.
• Presenting research findings at national and international conferences, seminars, and workshops.

Qualifications

• A PhD in biomedical informatics, computer science, information science, computational linguistics, statistics, data science, or a closely related field; or an MD/PharmD with demonstrated strength in biomedical informatics research.
• Experience in biomedical informatics research; ability to plan and carry out research experiments and projects.
• Candidates with experience in the areas of medical terminologies/ontologies, natural language processing/large language models, and machine/deep learning are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Programming experience in computer programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, C#, SQL, R, etc).
• Familiar with machine learning and statistical informatics methods.
• Experience of analyzing healthcare data (e.g., EHR, claims) are desirable, but not required.