Overview
About your role
• You are an ambitious early-career researcher who will help steer the CaRe-NLP project and who will co-lead one or more of its research lines;
• You will liaise with a network of clinical partners of the CaRe-NLP project and will tackle relevant healthcare problems using rich real-world clinical data;
• You will have access to excellent HPC facilities and strong support to publish the results of your work in the best scientific conferences and journals in NLP, ML, AI, and healthcare in general;
• You will have the opportunity to contribute to mentoring of master’s and PhD students and to contribute to relevant teaching activities in the department;
• Moreover, you will have ample room for personal and professional development.
About you
Prerequisites:
• PhD in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or related disciplines;
• Strong technical background and ample experience with Natural Language Processing… and Machine Learning methods, toolkits, and best practices;
• Experience with one or more of the main (methodological) research lines in CaRe-NLP: privacy and fairness in NLP, bias in NLP, low-resource NLP, interpretable and explainable NLP;
• Strong programming skills in Python and ML libraries (PyTorch);
• Responsible, independent and resilient mindset and fluent in English.
Not required but helpful:
• Experience with clinical data and related application areas (e.g., cancer, primary/intensive care);
• Experience with the management and administration of scientific research projects and writing grant proposals;
• Contribution to open-source projects.
Our offer
• Fully-funded position: we offer an appointment for two years (24 months) with the intention to extend for another 36 months upon good performance.
• Salary scale 11: € 4.498 – € 6.156 with a 36 hour week (depending on qualifications and experience).
• Besides a good basic salary, you will also receive an 8.3% year-end bonus and 8% holiday allowance.
• Free and unlimited access to our online learning environment GoodHabitz.
• Pension accrual with BeFrank, a modern, understandable, and well-priced pension.
• Excellent accessibility by public transport and reimbursement of a large part of your transport costs. We also have a good bicycle scheme if you cycle, and sufficient parking spaces in case you drive.
• An active personnel association and the Young Amsterdam UMC association, both of which organize fun (sports) activities and events
Company:
Amsterdam UMC
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Level of experience (years):
Senior (5+ years of experience)
About Amsterdam UMC
Amsterdam UMC specializes in health care, patient care, scientific research, and medical education.
