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INTRODUCTION
The BioNLP research group headed by Dr. Hong Yu at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is looking for a number of talented and motivated PhD students and postdoctoral candidates to join the team.
The group’s activities include building information systems for biologists and physicians that allow them to efficiently access information from heterogeneous databases (e.g., literature, electronic medical records, images, web, and other types of databases), and developing natural language processing, information retrieval and extraction, image processing and question answering techniques.
ABOUT UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is a major urban university, committed to academic excellence, located in the commercial and industrial hub of Wisconsin. The campus is in a pleasant residential neighborhood on Milwaukee’s northeast side, only a few blocks from Lake Michigan. UW-Milwaukee is one of the two “doctoral cluster” campuses in the 13-campus University of Wisconsin System, with a student enrollment of approximately 25,000.
ABOUT THE PhD POSITION
Candidates selected for doctoral position will be enrolled under the Computer Science PhD program, or the Medical Informatics PhD program. The Computer Science PhD program is offered by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, while the Medical Informatics PhD program is a multidisciplinary program offered by the College of Health Science, College of Nursing, School of Business Administration, School of Information Studies and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and The Medical College of Wisconsin. More information can be found at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/medinf/ .
REQUIREMENTS
Candidates for the postdoctoral position should hold a MD, PhD or MD/PhD in Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics with a biology background, or a related field; whereas candidates for the PhD position should hold a MS in any of these fields. Salary/stipend will be competitive and will depend on the candidate’s research experience.
HOW TO APPLY
Applications should include a curriculum vitae, cover letter, publication list, and contact details of 3 referees. To apply, or for more information, send an email to BioNLP-job[at]uwm.edu.
LOCATION
Milwaukee WI, USA
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