Postdoctoral Scholar-Fixed Term

Position Summary

The postdoctoral researcher will join Professor Ghassemi’s group and collaborate with Dr. Kundan Thind and colleagues at Henry Ford Health. Responsibilities include developing structured representations of 3D anatomy; integrating these representations with AI reasoning models; evaluating performance on radiation therapy planning tasks against text-only and vision-only baselines; analyzing uncertainty and failure modes; and preparing research code, documentation, and manuscripts.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

Required Degree

Doctorate -Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Physics, or a related field, completed by the appointment start date.

Minimum Requirements

Research experience in machine learning or AI; proficiency in Python and a deep learning framework; experience designing and evaluating computational models; and demonstrated scientific writing and collaboration skills.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with medical imaging, graph representations, or language models; familiarity with uncertainty estimation and model reliability; and experience collaborating with clinical researchers.

Required Application Materials

CV; cover letter describing relevant research experience and interests.

Special Instructions

Applicants should submit materials through the formal MSU posting and indicate their anticipated availability and doctoral degree completion date.

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