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Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Fellow position in "ophthalmic data mining and machine learning" areas in the Department of Ophthalmology and Department of Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in Memphis. The candidate will work on multicenter projects collaborating with Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Mount Sinai Medical Schools. There is a possibility for short visit of the mentioned schools and receiving support letters from respected collaborators.

The highly motivated postdoctoral fellow will develop classical supervised machine learning, unsupervised clustering, and deep learning models to mine retinal and corneal data including visual fields, fundus photographs, optical coherence tomography (OCT) images and genetic data for automated screening, diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of major eye diseases such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, and keratoconus. We have access to one of the largest multi-modal ophthalmic datasets in the US through our multi-center efforts as well as large single retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) dataset generated using 1 Ox Genomics and Fluidigm technologies at UTHSC.

The department expects a candidate with a PhD degree in computer science, data science, software engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, bioinformatics, or closely related areas. The department anticipates a highly motivated candidate with a solid research track record, excellent writing skills with a strong verbal and communication skills in English, and the ability to work independently and lead large projects. .

The prospective candidate should be highly experienced in Python and R programming languages with knowledge of Google Tensorflow, scikit-learn, and Keras or other related deep learning libraries. One of the positions is more towards single cell RNA-Sequencing data
analysis with required skills in manifold learning (tSNE and UMAP), unsupervised clustering, Seurat single cell data analysis package, and 10x Genomics data analysis pipeline (e.g. cell ranger).

For more information please see:
Lab webpage: https://syousefy.wixsite.com/yousefilab
University profile: https://uthsc.edu/faculty/profile/?netid=syousef1
If you are a good match and interested in these positions, please send
your CV to siamak.yousefi@uthsc.edu and indicate "Postdoc positions" in the subject of the email.