Research Assistant: AI & Healthcare Data Analytics

Nanyang Technological University; Singapore; On-site; SGD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Nanyang Technological University’s Division of Information Technology and Operations Management at Nanyang Business School invites applications for a Research Assistant (RA) position. The RA will join healthcare research projects and support data preparation, cleaning, and analysis.

You will coordinate on-site research activities with hospitals and partners, manage multi-source datasets (EHRs, surveys, logs), and build Python/SQL pipelines for structured and unstructured data, applying ML and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field required; master's preferred.
• Experience in data analytics or research support, preferably in healthcare.
• Strong Python and SQL skills to process large datasets.
• Experience with unstructured data (text, image, audio) including NLP/CV/speech processing.
• Familiarity with data preprocessing, feature engineering, and ML workflows for empirical research.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills for data cleaning and statistical modeling.
• Ability to integrate multi-source data from digital systems, surveys, or administrative databases.
• Good written and verbal communication; able to document analytical processes and support reporting.

Responsibilities

• Conduct on-site research coordination and data preparation with hospitals, clinics, and partners.
• Acquire, integrate, and manage multi-source datasets including EHRs, surveys, and logs.
• Perform data cleaning, preprocessing, and QA for large-scale datasets.
• Develop data analysis pipelines using Python and SQL for structured and unstructured data.
• Apply ML and NLP techniques to extract insights from healthcare datasets.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data analysis

Data cleaning

Statistical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Information Systems, Biomedical Informatics, or related quantitative field

Master’s Degree an advantage

Job description

Nanyang Technological University’s Division of Information Technology and Operations Management at Nanyang Business School invites applications for a Research Assistant (RA) position. The RA will join healthcare research projects and support data preparation, cleaning, and analysis.

You will coordinate on-site research activities with hospitals and partners, manage multi-source datasets (EHRs, surveys, logs), and build Python/SQL pipelines for structured and unstructured data, applying ML and