Clinical Research Project Assistant, IMICS Lab

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Research Assistant Position

At Intelligent Medical Informatics Computing Systems (IMICS) Lab at the Hospital for Sick Children (fully affiliated with The University of Toronto), we conduct high-throughput research in design and development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions for Medicine. The Clinical Research Project Assistant will work in close collaboration with the PI, graduate students and other researchers on a research project focused on Multimodal Deep Learning for Medicine: Utilizing imaging, text, and clinical data for disease diagnosis and prognosis.

Here's What You'll Get to Do:

• Medical data collection, curation, and management.
• Algorithm design and development for medical image analysis, machine (deep) learning, and statistical modeling solutions for different tasks (e.g. segmentation and classification)
• Design and development of multi-modal deep learning for medicine: Utilizing imaging, text, and clinical data for disease diagnosis and prognosis.
• Perform quality control procedures to ensure accuracy of algorithms and completeness of collected data.
• Oversee the deployment and integration of AI models into radiology workflows, optimizing efficiency, supporting clinicians, and ensuring compliance with clinical and operational standards.
• Preparing scientific manuscripts and reports.

Here's What You'll Need:

• BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Strong background in multimodal deep learning, including experience with medical imaging, large language models (LLMs), and foundation models, with demonstrated ability to design, implement, and evaluate advanced architectures.
• Linux/Bash Administration: Strong proficiency in command-line tools, shell scripting, and system administration, including provisioning GPU resources, configuring compute environments, managing containerized services, and troubleshooting on-premises production infrastructure.
• Prior related publications are a plus
• Strong scientific programming skills with Python (PyTorch)
• Excellent technical writing for scientific publications
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work well with a team and to use initiative in achieving goals
• Experience in research coordination, data collection and management
• A commitment to understanding and aiding in the pursuit of equity, diversity and inclusion

Type of Employment:

• Full-time
• 1 year contract (renewable based on funding)

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