PhD: AI-Enhanced Digital Health Data Exploration

DTU - Technical University of Denmark; Kongens Lyngby; On-site; DKK 360,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

DTU – Technical University of Denmark invites an ambitious PhD student to work at the intersection of digital health, AI, LLMs, and human–computer interaction. The SCALE project investigates how interactive AI can help researchers explore and visualize multimodal health data from smartphones and wearables, using natural language to formulate queries and hypotheses.

You will collaborate with DTU and TU/e researchers and undertake a three-year full-time scholarship starting 1 January 2027, with a

Qualifications

• Master's degree in CS, data science, AI, health tech, or HCI.
• Strong programming skills and experience with data science and machine learning.
• Experience with LLMs, generative AI, and AI-supported data analysis.
• Experience in data visualization, human-AI interaction, and explainable AI.
• Interest in working with large, heterogeneous datasets from smartphones and wearables.
• Ability to design and implement research prototypes and conduct empirical evaluations.
• Good communication and scientific writing skills in English; ability to work in an interdisciplinary, international team.

Responsibilities

• Study how health researchers explore complex multimodal datasets and identify their analytical needs and workflows.
• Design and implement an LLM-based environment translating natural-language questions into data queries, analyses, and visualizations.
• Investigate human‑AI interaction where AI assists in identifying patterns, anomalies, and hypotheses while keeping researchers in control.
• Work with large-scale CARP datasets containing smartphone, wearable, behavioral, physiological, and self‑reported data.
• Evaluate the developed methods with researchers, focusing on usability, efficiency, explainability, and trust.
• Collaborate with the sister PhD project at TU/e, including a research stay, joint development, and scientific publications.

Skills

MSc Computer Science

Data Science

Artificial Intelligence

HCI

Biomedical Engineering

Health Technology

Programming

Data Visualization

English Communication

Education

Two-year Master’s degree

Tools

Python

ML Frameworks

Data Analysis

LLMs / Generative AI

Job description

DTU – Technical University of Denmark invites an ambitious PhD student to work at the intersection of digital health, AI, LLMs, and human–computer interaction. The SCALE project investigates how interactive AI can help researchers explore and visualize multimodal health data from smartphones and wearables, using natural language to formulate queries and hypotheses.

You will collaborate with DTU and TU/e researchers and undertake a three-year full-time scholarship starting 1 January 2027, with a