PhD Scholarship: AI-Augmented Digital Health Research

DTU Sundhedsteknologi (Kgs. Lyngby); Kongens Lyngby; On-site; DKK 357,000 - 424,000; Full time

Job summary

DTU Sundhedsteknologi invites applications for a PhD scholarship in AI-Augmented Sense-Making in Digital Phenotyping at DTU Health Tech. The PhD project SCALE will explore LLMs and interactive AI to help researchers analyze multimodal health data from smartphones and wearables, with collaboration across DTU and TU/e.

Starting Jan 2027, 3-year full-time position. We value strong programming and data science skills, and proficiency in English; enrolment in a DTU degree program is required.

Qualifications

• A two-year master's degree or equivalent.
• Strong programming and data science skills.
• Experience with LLMs and AI-enabled data analysis.
• Experience in data visualization and human-AI interaction.
• Interest in large heterogeneous smartphone/wearable datasets.
• Ability to design research prototypes and conduct empirical evaluations.
• Good English communication and ability to work in an international team.

Responsibilities

• Study how health researchers explore complex multimodal datasets and identify analytical needs.
• 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 while researchers stay in control.
• Work with CARP datasets containing smartphone, wearable, behavioral, physiological, and self-reported data.
• Evaluate the developed methods focusing on usability, efficiency, explainability and trust.
• Collaborate with TU/e sister PhD project including research stays, joint development and publications.

Skills

Programming skills

Data science experience

LLMs / Generative AI

English communication

Education

Two-year master's degree or equivalent

Master's degree in CS / data science / AI / health tech / bioengineering / HCI

Tools

Python

PyTorch

Data visualization tools

Job description

DTU Sundhedsteknologi invites applications for a PhD scholarship in AI-Augmented Sense-Making in Digital Phenotyping at DTU Health Tech. The PhD project SCALE will explore LLMs and interactive AI to help researchers analyze multimodal health data from smartphones and wearables, with collaboration across DTU and TU/e.

Starting Jan 2027, 3-year full-time position. We value strong programming and data science skills, and proficiency in English; enrolment in a DTU degree program is required.