Postdoc multimodal cardiovascular AI research

Amsterdam UMC; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

12-month contract

Salary scale 10 (€3,724–€5,867) gross

8.3% end-of-year bonus

Public transport reimbursement

Bike scheme

BeFrank pension

Job summary

Amsterdam UMC Research BV invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher to design and implement multimodal AI architectures for cardiovascular applications. You will develop synthetic data to augment sparse modalities and create joint optimization frameworks for cross-modal representations.

You will validate models with clinical datasets in collaboration with cardiologists and mentor PhD/MSc students, presenting findings at international conferences and potentially starting your own

Qualifications

• PhD in a relevant field (CS/AI/biomedical engineering).
• Strong programming in Python; experience with PyTorch; HPC experience a plus.
• Experience in medical image analysis; multimodal learning is a plus.
• Publication record in top AI/ML or medical informatics venues (NeurIPS, MICCAI, SPIE, Nature portfolio).
• Experience with clinical healthcare data systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement novel multimodal AI architectures for cardiovascular applications.
• Develop synthetic data generation methods to augment sparse modalities.
• Create frameworks for joint optimization of cross-modal representations.
• Validate models using clinical datasets in collaboration with cardiologists.
• Mentor PhD and MSc students and present findings at international conferences.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Medical imaging

Multimodal learning

Publication track record

Education

PhD in CS/AI/Biomedical Eng

Job description

About your role

As a postdoctoral researcher, you will:

• Design and implement novel multimodal AI architectures for cardiovascular applications;
• Develop synthetic data generation methods to augment sparse modalities;
• Create frameworks for joint optimization of cross-modal representations;
• Validate models using clinical datasets in collaboration with cardiologists;
• Mentor PhD and MSc students and present findings at international conferences;
• Intention to apply for grants to expand our group, and potentially start your own research group.

About you

• You have a PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, Biomedical Engineering, or related field;
• You demonstrate strong programming skills in Python and have experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch (experience with high performance computing infrastructures is a plus);
• You have experience in medical image analysis (multimodal learning experience is a plus);
• You have a publication track record in top AI/ML or medical informatics venues such as NeurIPS, MICCAI, or SPIE Medical Imaging and/or in translational venues such as Nature portfolio journals (Nature Medicine, Nature Cardiovascular Medicine, npj Digital Medicine) ;
• Experience with clinical healthcare data systems is a plus.

Our offer

• You will be employed by Amsterdam UMC Research BV.
• A contract for 12 months with the option to extend by mutual agreement
• Classification in salary scale 10, €3.724 to €5.867 gross for full-time employment (depending on experience). In addition to a good basic salary, we offer 8.3% end-of-year bonus. Calculate your net salary here.
• Holiday hours: 194.4 per year for full time and a possibility to save additional hours.
• 100% reimbursement for public transport travel costs. If you travel by foot, bicycle, or car, a mileage allowance of €0.21 per km applies (up to a maximum of 40 km one way by car).
• Do you prefer cycling? Take advantage of our good bike scheme.
• Pension accrual with BeFrank, a modern, comprehensible and fairly priced pension.

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