Research Associate Data Scientist - Ajami Lab - Department of Neurology
Cedars-Sinai
Research Associate Data Scientist - Ajami Lab - Department of Neurology
Cedars-Sinai
Posted 2 months ago
Full Time
West Hollywood, California
In Person
Smart Summary
Responsibilities
The role involves developing and applying computational and statistical methods, including AI and machine learning, to analyze biomedical data. Responsibilities include creating data pipelines, performing data cleaning, and communicating scientific findings through publications and conferences.
Qualifications
You have experience with programming, data mining, statistics, and machine learning techniques to analyze biomedical data. You are proficient in writing clean, reusable code in R, Python, and SQL, and have experience with version control systems like GitHub.
Must Have Skills for ATS
Python
R
SQL
neo4j
GitHub
machine learning
data mining
statistics
Job Description
Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai!
Data is vital to advance clinical knowledge across a spectrum of medical and surgical fields. Are you ready to transform data discoveries into valuable information, which will empower tomorrow's medicine?
Dr. Bahareh Ajami invites you to consider this Research Associate Data Scientist opportunity to join her dynamic team!
About the Team
The Ajami Lab is establishing a new research program at Cedars-Sinai focused on immune mechanisms driving neuro-degeneration, with a particular emphasis on ALS and microglial biology.
About the Role
The Research Associate Data Scientist participates in biomedical research projects using programming, data -mining, statistics, machine learning, and visualization techniques to assist with the development, evaluation, and/or applications of algorithms, methods, and software for data analysis. Responsibilities include querying databases, data cleaning and quality control, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, parametric and nonparametric statistical methods, deploying production models, and assisting with the communication of scientific findings via peer-reviewed publications and scientific conferences. Writes clean, performant, reusable code managed on GitHub to perform repeatable analyses and to train and deploy models to multiple environments.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
- Assists with the development, evaluation, and/or application of computational and statistical methods including artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms and software for the analysis of biomedical data.
- Assists with the presentation and communication of scientific results through laboratory meetings, scientific conferences, and peer-reviewed publications.
- Creates database-to-deployment pipelines for models using the necessary programming languages (primarily R, Python, SQL, neo4j).
- Creates sustainable data science infrastructure and adheres to data analysis/machine learning standards.
- Performs data cleaning, quality control, and exploratory data analysis to gauge the need for or appropriateness of advanced analytical methods
- Assists research, senior research, and/or lead research data scientists and principal investigators to identify areas where data science can best be applied to answer biomedical research questions.
- Tests and validates code to ensure adaptability of data applications with version control through GitHub.
Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow's health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.
Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the U.S., with 886 licensed beds, 2,100 physicians, 2,800 nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. Choose this if you want to work in a fast-paced environment that offers the highest level of care to people in the Los Angeles that need our care the most.
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