Computational Postdoc, Artificial Intelligence Diagnostics – Heme AI Lab

Company Overview

The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue our mission at MSK and around the globe. One of the world’s most respected comprehensive centers devoted exclusively to cancer, we have been recognized as one of the top two cancer hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report for more than 30 years.

 

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Job Description

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is seeking a highly motivated and successful individual with a background in image analysis and artificial intelligence to work in the Heme AI Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Gregory M. Goldgof, MD, PhD. This laboratory is developing AI-based diagnostics to assist with the diagnosis and management of patients with leukemias and other diseases of the blood and bone marrow.  A successful applicant will have a BS, MS, or PhD, with previous experience in training deep learning methods for image detection, classification, or segmentation, as well as previous experience working with High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. Comfort basic methods in data science are also a requirement. Additional experience with software development, cloud computing, or web application development is a plus, but not a requirement. A track record of successful publications and scientific writing skills are also highly desirable. A background in statistical methods is also highly desirable. An interest in entrepreneurship is also desirable. Knowledge of healthcare and biology are not requirements.

 

The ideal candidate should have:

• Requirements: 

• Experience with deep learning methods for image analysis such as YOLO, ResNet, Inception, U-Net, VGG, DinoV2, MAE, GANs. Experience training and evaluating one or more of these in past research published projects is a requirement.  
• Python programming and experience with machine learning and data science libraries such as PyTorch, OpenCV, and Pandas.  
• Experience working UNIX, git, github. 

• Desirable: 

• An advanced degree in CS, Statistics, or a related field. 
• Experience with deep learning algorithm development 
• Experience with multimodal data-integration methods 

• Experience with Django web framework, Docker, AWS, software development 

If you have any questions about this job opportunity, please contact:

Contact Person: Gregory Goldgof 

Contact Email: goldgofg@mskcc.org 

 

Salary: $55,439-$76,480

 

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