Research Associate in Data Science and Machine Learning

Campus: Hammersmith

Contract type: Fixed-term until August 2025

Job Summary 

Applications are invited for up to 3-year postdoctoral research position within the Computational Cardiac Imaging Group, led by Prof Declan O’Regan. We are looking for a data scientist with experience in developing new methods for analysing high-dimensional clinical data. 

This post is part of a 5-year BHF program using machine learning and innovative data science to understand the causes and outcomes of heart disease through analysis of cardiac motion combined with genetics and other clinical data. We are designing systems that analyze large scale imaging data, including cardiac MRIs in UK Biobank, and convert this to machine readable form for classification and prediction tasks. This includes recent work on outcome prediction (Bello et al, Nature Machine Intelligence, 2019), discovering mechanisms of cardiac development (Meyer et al, Nature 2020), and finding potential new therapies for heart failure (Thanaj et al, Nature Cardiovascular Research, 2022). 

Duties and Responsibilities

You will have an opportunity to work in a diverse team that brings together clinicians, mathematicians and geneticists to work on problems that are key to human health. There are excellent opportunities for development and training – including working part-time at the new Imperial-X centre for transformational innovation in AI. We offer excellent mentoring and support to reach your career goals. The post holder will have the opportunity to liaise with an extensive network of collaborators, attend scientific conferences, and publish the results of their work in leading journals.   

For more information, please visit  https://oreganlab.org/. 

Essential requirements: 

• A PhD in Mathematics, Data Science, or a closely related discipline
• Background in statistics, mathematics and machine learning
• Excellent programming skills in one relevant language (e.g. R, C++ or Python)

Further Information:

This is a full time and a fixed term role until August 2025 based at the Imperial Hammersmith Campus.

*Candidates who have not yet been officially awarded their PhD will be appointed as a Research Assistant within the salary range £40,694 - £43,888 per annum.

Should you have any further details on the role please contact: Hanifa Rahman: h.rahman@lms.mrc.ac.uk.

Closing date: 16/05/2024

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