PhD in AI for Multimodal Liver Disease & HCC

KU Leuven; Vlaams-Brabant; Presencial; EUR 22.000 - 26.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Doctoral programme training

Descripción de la vacante

KU Leuven in Leuven is offering a full-time PhD position in AI and multimodal digital liver pathology. You will develop AI models that combine digitised histopathology with molecular data to predict biologically and clinically relevant features of liver disease, with potential MRI data integration.

The project spans inflammation to cancer, enabling collaboration with clinicians and researchers while training within the KU Leuven doctoral programme.

Formación

• Master’s degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, computational biology, statistics or closely related field.
• Strong programming skills, preferably in Python; proficiency in R is an additional asset.
• A solid foundation in machine learning, deep learning, statistics or data science.
• Motivation to work at the interface of AI, pathology and translational liver research, and commitment to completing a doctorate within four years.
• Excellent spoken and written English.

Responsabilidades

• Complete a doctoral training programme and conduct original research leading to a PhD in AI and digital pathology.
• Develop, train and evaluate machine-learning and deep-learning models for whole-slide pathology and multimodal biomedical data.
• Work with large, heterogeneous datasets and contribute to data preprocessing, quality control, annotation and documentation.
• Collaborate closely with researchers and specialists in pathology, hepatology, oncology, radiology, molecular biology and biomedical AI.
• Communicate progress and results to the supervisory team and present findings at national and international scientific meetings.
• Prepare scientific manuscripts and contribute to collaborative research outputs and funding applications where appropriate.
• Contribute to the wider academic environment, for example by supporting master’s students or educational activities.

Conocimientos

Python

R programming

Machine learning

Deep learning

Self-supervised learning

Multimodal data integration

Educación

Master's degree in computer science or related

Herramientas

PyTorch

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

Descripción del empleo

KU Leuven in Leuven is offering a full-time PhD position in AI and multimodal digital liver pathology. You will develop AI models that combine digitised histopathology with molecular data to predict biologically and clinically relevant features of liver disease, with potential MRI data integration.

The project spans inflammation to cancer, enabling collaboration with clinicians and researchers while training within the KU Leuven doctoral programme.