Postdoctoral researcher in Responsible NLP and ML for healthcare

• Leadership Opportunities: You are an ambitious early-career researcher who will help steer the CaRe-NLP project and co-lead its research lines.
• Clinical Collaboration: You will liaise with a network of clinical partners to tackle significant healthcare challenges using rich real-world clinical data.
• Excellent Resources: You will enjoy access to excellent HPC facilities and robust support to publish your work in leading NLP, ML, AI, and healthcare conferences and journals.
• Mentorship Roles: You will contribute to the mentoring of master's and PhD students and participate in relevant teaching activities within the department.
• Growth and Development: You will have ample opportunities for personal and professional growth, fostering both your academic and career aspirations.

Prerequisites:

• PhD in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or related disciplines;
• Strong technical background and ample experience with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning methods, toolkits, and best practices;
• Experience with one or more of the main (methodological) research lines in CaRe-NLP: privacy and fairness in NLP, bias in NLP, low-resource NLP, interpretable and explainable NLP;
• Strong programming skills in Python and ML libraries (PyTorch);
• Responsible, independent and resilient mindset and fluent in English.

Not required but helpful:

• Experience with the management and administration of scientific research projects and writing grant proposals;
• Experience with clinical data and related application areas (e.g., cancer, primary/intensive care);
• Contribution to open-source projects.

• A flying start to your career in scientific research.
• Plenty of room for personal development with a wide range of training & development of academic skills
• Working on large-scale and own research, with motivated colleagues
• A contract for 6 months with the prospect of extension for the duration.
• Salary scale: 11: € 4.678 tot € 6.402 bruto (based on a fulltime workweek), depending on qualifications and experience.
• Additional benefits including an 8.3% end-of-year bonus and 8% holiday pay. Calculate your net salary here.
• Your pension is accrued at BeFrank. A modern, understandeble en fair pension
• Excellent accessibility with public transportation and reimbursement of a large portion of your travel expenses. Additionally, we have plenty of parking spaces at the AMC location and a good bicycle scheme.