Jobs
Postdoctoral Opening at Rutgers University-Newark in Data Science/Machine Learning as applied to Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Posted 02 Feb 2024
Location
Newark, New Jersey
Principal Investigator
Contact
Applicants should apply in parallel through both of two mechanisms:
(1) Email gluck@rutgers.edu with a complete CV, a cover letter addressing the degree to which you fit all of the desiderata noted below, clarification on your current location and citizenship/visa status, along with a summary of relevant skills, background, future career goals, prior experience, and why you think you are a good fit to our research and lab (please review the website posting before applying). Please also include a PDF sample of a submitted or published (or in-press)
(2) Apply formally online through Rutgers Human Resources webpage to upload all your documents there, as well: https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/151891.
Description
The Aging & Brain Health Alliance at Rutgers University-Newark seeks a postdoctoral fellow with strong prior training and experience in data science/machine learning with an interest in applying those techniques to the study of aging and Alzheimer’s disease prevention.
Fellows who work in the Gluck lab would participate in our NIH-funded study of Pathways to Healthy Aging in African Americans. Lab scientists have an extensive program of community engagement in the Greater Newark area through which they recruit older African Americans into both longitudinal cohort studies and non-pharmacological intervention clinical trials. The lab has a large (more than 50 people) interdisciplinary team, with multiple faculty, postdoctoral fellows, staff and students from neuroscience, neurology, psychology, public health, immunology, kinesiology, and other fields. For additional details, lecture videos, an overview of current lab members and faculty affiliates, as well as downloadable publications, press coverage, and research summaries, see https://brainhealth.rutgers.edu/.
Salary will be commensurate with experience and comparable to other postdoctoral positions at Rutgers University in neuroscience and related fields.
Requirements
Applicants Must Have:
1. Strong coding skills, training, and prior hands-on experience in data science and/or machine learning such as Python and R/RStudio, including PyTorch or Tensorflow, for data engineering. Robust computer programming skills are key, as is a deep understanding of statistical modeling, probability, and biostatistics for the analysis of experimental data.
2. A Ph.D. in any related field.
3. Prior experience writing and submitting first-authored English-language academic papers and research grants.
Foreign candidates are welcome as long as they meet all three criteria listed above.