PhD “Biomedical data sciences – machine learning” in beautiful Austria

PhD position in “Biomedical data sciences and machine learning” + 2 open MSc positions
in the context of the new competence center for biomarker discovery cbmed.org located at the Medical University Graz.


http://hci-kdd.org/2015/03/26/phd-position-in-biomedical-data-sciences-and-machine-learning/


You …
… have a MSc related to Information & Computer Science (e.g. Informatics, Software Engineering, Telematics, Mathematics, …)

… are eligible to enroll in the Doctoral School Computer Science at Graz University of Technology
… are interested to work within the hci-kdd.org group embedded in the international research community
… have experiences and interest in scientific work in the international context
… have a high interest in the topics data science and machine learning
… like undertaking theoretical, algorithmical, and experimental machine learning studies
… want to understand the problem of knowledge discovery from complex high-dimensional data sets


We …

… are offering a PhD position (30 hours per week, 2100 Euro gross per month, 14 x, FWF salary) available immediately
(no closing date, the position will be filled when the ideal candidate has been found)
… a contract for four years, with opportunities to further develop into a PostDoc position with another four years
… do research in information integration in the life sciences, particularly in the integration of multiple heterogeneous data sources (e.g., -omics data, text data, image data, etc.) constituting the foundation for further machine learning based data analytics for biomarker discovery. Selected topics you have to deal with at the beginning include the research of how to integrate and analyse available data sources in the biomedical domain, a common representation and information fusion model of heterogeneous data sets and to develop and test model-based infrastructures for information integration and fusion
… are offering a workplace within the vibrant, beautiful and student friendly city of Graz in charming Austria


If …
you are interested and motivated, please send
… a) your scientific résumé,
… b) a sample paper, and
… c) a research statement about your targeted scientific work within the four years (a PhD proposal)


in one single pdf file directly to a.holzinger@hci-kdd.org


We are looking forward to welcome you in our group!