Postdoctoral Fellow: AI NLP for Cancer Risk

Times Higher Education; Hong Kong; In loco; HKD 420.000 - 540.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Annual leave

Medical benefits

Descrizione del lavoro

The University of Hong Kong invites applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, to commence as soon as possible on a one-year or two-year temporary term contract. The research focuses on developing NLP analytics to convert lengthy, free-text clinical notes into structured formats for AI-driven cancer risk and staging classification.

Applicants should hold a PhD in related fields, demonstrate strong English communication, and

Competenze

• PhD in public health, epidemiology, biostatistics or computer science.
• Proficiency in Python or R required.
• Strong communication skills in English and ability to work independently and in a team.

Mansioni

• Acquire, prepare, and annotate clinical text datasets.
• Develop and evaluate NLP methods with clinicians to ensure clinical relevance and usability.
• Support population-based epidemiological research applying AI-generated structured data.
• Coordinate interdisciplinary collaborations and contribute to manuscripts for international journals.

Conoscenze

Python

R

NLP

English communication

Team collaboration

Formazione

PhD in public health/epidemiology/biostatistics/computer science

Strumenti

NLP libraries (spaCy/NLTK)

Descrizione del lavoro

The University of Hong Kong invites applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, to commence as soon as possible on a one-year or two-year temporary term contract. The research focuses on developing NLP analytics to convert lengthy, free-text clinical notes into structured formats for AI-driven cancer risk and staging classification.

Applicants should hold a PhD in related fields, demonstrate strong English communication, and