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Openings

We have openings for research programmers, postdoctoral associates, and RA positions for graduate students in data science, computer science and/or health informatics. Feel free to send your CV, top 3 publications if any, and cover letter to Dr. Rui Zhang ([email protected]) for considerations. 

Prospective PhD applications can apply directly through Health Informatics and/or BICB programs and mention Prof. Zhang as their potential advisor on their application documents.

Principal Investigator

Rui Zhang, PhD, FAMIA

Dr. Zhang is Professor and Founding Chief of Division of Computational Health Sciences in the Department of Surgery. He is named as McKnight Presidential Fellow and the Director of NLP/IE research program. He is Scientific Co-Director of Innovative Methods & Data Science program in the Center for Learning Health Systems Science. Dr. Zhang is a graduate faculty in  Data Science, BICB and SAPh graduate programs. His research interests are clinical NLP and LLM, text mining, knowledge graph and discovery, complementary and integrative health informatics, machine learning. His research has been supported by NCCIH, NIA, NCI, NIMDH, NIKDD, ODS, AHRQ and Medtronic. Dr. Zhang serves on multiple NIH study sections and JAMIA Editorial Board, and Chair-elect of AMIA NLP Working group. Recently, he was elected as Fellow of American College of Medical Informatics (FACMI). 

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