Data Scientist - Research Administration
Data Scientist - Research Administration
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$ 83000 - 131000
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Department:
Research Informatics-----
Research InformaticsPosition Title:
Data Scientist - Research AdministrationJob Family Group:
Professional StaffJob Description Summary:
This position will be in Research Informatics (The Office of the Chief Research Informatics Officer) at the University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City KS USA. Research Informatics creates maintains and facilitates the use of technology to enable research helping researchers to manage process and analyze their data. We use advanced data science methodologies on large-scale health data to push forward precision medicine. The University of Kansas Medical Center is inviting applications for a Data Scientist position to support the Department of Pathology. This will be a hybrid position requiring both data science and data engineering skills. The successful candidate will play a critical role in advancing research for the Department of Pathology by managing and optimizing the digitization process for pathology data leveraging technologies like OpenSlide facilitating the transition from the pathology information system CoPath by ensuring continued access to legacy data for research. Additionally the Data Scientist will support analysis and modeling for the Department of Pathology using a combination of statistics and machine learning. The Data Scientist will join a dynamic team of pathologists data scientists informaticians and clinicians and participate in unique opportunities to apply their skills to contribute to important scientific breakthroughs and to directly impact patients lives in a clinical setting.Job Description:
Key Roles and Responsibilities
Design implement and maintain infrastructure to create a data warehouse for legacy CoPath data.
Support the creation of a system for efficiently identifying relevant slides for research.
Use appropriate technologies to facilitate the digitization and retrieval of slides for research.
Develop robust data pipelines for ingesting processing and managing data for the Department of Pathology ensuring scalability reliability and efficiency.
Implement quality assurance processes to validate the accuracy completeness and integrity of pathology data identifying and resolving issues as needed.
Develop tools and APIs for accessing and retrieving pathology data in response to user requests ensuring timely and efficient delivery of data to analysts researchers and clinicians.
Develop statistical or machine learning models to categorize disease predict patient outcomes identify biomarkers and other applications.
Evaluate model behavior and robustness and maximize model performance and generalizability.
Optimize data processing and retrieval workflows to minimize latency and maximize throughput leveraging parallel processing caching and other optimization techniques.
Collaborate closely with pathologists data scientists software engineers and other stakeholders to understand requirements prioritize tasks and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
Document workflows procedures and best practices.
Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements (e.g. HIPAA).
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. It is only a summary of the typical functions of the job not an exhaustive list of all possible job responsibilities tasks duties and assignments. Furthermore job duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Work Environment
Work is normally performed in a typical interior work environment which does not usually subject the employee to any unpleasant elements.
Required Qualifications
Education:BS and/or MS in a quantitative science-related field (e.g. data science biomedical informatics clinical informatics machine learning biostatistics etc.)
Work Experience:
Proven experience in data engineering with a focus on managing and processing large-scale imaging data preferably in the healthcare or life sciences domain.
Experience in machine learning techniques ideally with published work and/or code available. Experience with deep learning frameworks is preferred (e.g. Tensorflow or PyTorch).
Experience with programming and statistical software experience in Python and/or R
Preferred Qualifications
Work Experience:
Experience with computational pathology large vision models (CNNs vision transformers) multi-GPU multi-node training and federated learning strongly encouraged.
Experience working with cloud platforms.
Experience with high performance computing.
Publication track record including conference papers and preprints.
Skills:
Strong communication and presentation skills
Required Documents:
Resume/CV
Cover Letter
Comprehensive Benefits Package:
Coverage begins on day one for health dental and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan. Employer-paid life insurance long-term disability insurance and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off including vacation and sick begins accruing upon hire plus ten paid holidays. One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment and paid time off for bereavement jury duty military service and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment. A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available. Type: Regular Compensation Statement: The pay range listed for this position is determined by our compensation program using market data and salary benchmarking. A combination of factors is considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to education experience and training qualifications relative to the requirements of the position and funding. At the University of Kansas Medical Center a reasonable estimate for the starting pay range will be the minimum to midpoint of the posted range taking into account the combination of factors listed above. Minimum Midpoint MaximumTime Type:
Full timeRate Type:
SalaryPay Range:
$83000.00 - $131000.00
Employment Type
Full-Time
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