Analysis Skills, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Best Practices, Biomedicine, Clinical Data, Computer Systems, Data Management, Data Modeling Language, Data Processing, Data Quality, Data Science, Decision Support, Deep Learning, Documentation, Drug Development, Experiment Design, Grant Writing, Healthcare, Machine Learning, Mentoring, Modeling Languages, People Management, Scientific Research, Software Development, Software Engineering, Team Player, Technical Leadership, Technical Research, Training Data Sets, Translational Research
Position Summary
The Data Scientist will lead and contribute to the design, development, and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions that advance healthcare delivery, clinical decision-making, and population health research. This role integrates data science, software engineering, and translational research, with a focus on reproducibility, fairness, and real-world clinical impact. The data scientist will serve as a technical and scientific lead, collaborating with faculty, clinicians, and data engineers to deliver impactful applied research projects. The position also includes mentorship of junior researchers and fostering a high standard of technical and scientific excellence across the program.
Duties & Responsibilities
Research and Technical Leadership-Lead applied AI and ML research projects in healthcare and biomedical domains.
- Develop, fine-tune, and evaluate advanced machine learning models, including deep learning, large language models and -multimodal modeling for large scale clinical and biomedical data. large language models and multimodal architectures.
- Translate research findings into deployable systems, decision-support tools, or analytical frameworks.
- Conduct external validation and real-world evaluation of machine learning models using diverse clinical datasets.
- Ensure all research outputs adhere to best practices in reproducibility, documentation, and data integrity.
Collaboration and Grant Development
- Collaborate with clinical investigators and interdisciplinary teams to identify opportunities for AI-driven solutions.
- Contribute to manuscripts, technical reports, and grant proposals, and institutional pilot mechanisms.
- Present project outcomes in academic and professional settings.
- Mentorship and Supervision
- Supervise and mentor junior data scientists, research associates, and students.
- Provide guidance on experimental design, software development, and machine learning methodology.
- Promote a collaborative and transparent research environment.
Infrastructure and Innovation
- Develop and maintain data processing pipelines, model repositories, and evaluation tools.
- Implement scalable and secure computing environments that comply with institutional data-governance and privacy policies.
- Develop reproducible data pipelines and collaborative model development environments.
- Support the integration of AI tools into ongoing clinical and translational research workflows.
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University of Illinois at Chicago