AI Pathogen Genomics & Outbreak Analytics Lead

Duke-NUS Medical School; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Duke-NUS Medical School invites applications for a senior role at the Duke-NUS Centre for Outbreak Preparedness and Centre for Biomedical Data Science. The appointee will lead AI-enabled pathogen genomics research and translate insights into public health action.

The position requires deep expertise in AI, ML, data science, and genomics, with a track record of leadership and collaboration across institutions and funding bodies.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent in AI, ML, computational biology, bioinformatics, genomics, infectious disease modelling, biomedical data science, statistics, CS or related field.
• Senior/Principal/Assistant Professor level requires several years of postdoc or leadership experience with research independence.
• Demonstrated expertise in AI/data science applied to genomics, omics, infectious diseases or public health surveillance.
• Strong technical skills in ML, scalable pipelines, cloud/HPC, privacy-preserving analytics, and multi-modal data integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop applied research at the interface of AI, pathogen genomics and outbreak preparedness.
• Design and evaluate AI-enabled methods for pathogen genomic analysis and outbreak clustering.
• Build collaborations with national and international partners and funding bodies.
• Contribute to grant proposals, research strategy and donor engagement.
• Publish high-quality scientific outputs and policy-relevant reports.
• Support robust and ethically governed analytical workflows including data quality, privacy and transparency.
• Provide scientific leadership to researchers, data scientists and students, including mentorship.
• Contribute to education and training in AI and computational genomics for learners and partners.
• Translate analytical outputs into practical insights for surveillance and policy decisions.

Skills

AI

Machine learning

Computational biology

Public health surveillance

Leadership

Grant writing

Data science

Genomics

Education

PhD

Tools

Cloud computing

Knowledge graphs

LLMs

High-performance computing

Job description

Duke-NUS Medical School invites applications for a senior role at the Duke-NUS Centre for Outbreak Preparedness and Centre for Biomedical Data Science. The appointee will lead AI-enabled pathogen genomics research and translate insights into public health action.

The position requires deep expertise in AI, ML, data science, and genomics, with a track record of leadership and collaboration across institutions and funding bodies.