<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578page" title="Page 1"><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578layoutArea"><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578column"><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700">The Neuroimage Analytics Laboratory (NAL) and the Biggs Institute Neuroimaging Core (BINC) are recruiting a postdoctoral fellow in deep learning and neuroimaging</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700">-University of Texas Health San Antonio- </span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Are you excited about deep learning and transfer learning? Do you want to apply and develop deep learning methods to high dimensional neuroimaging data and make new discoveries which could advance our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease? We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow who is willing to research more deep and transfer learning methods in large cohort based studies.<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></span></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias are heterogeneous conditions, which makes differentiating between them and their subtypes very challenging. Our goal is to use neuroimaging data and deep learning to help uncover and detect specific pathologies and patterns emerging in early Alzheimer’s disease. In this position your challenge will be to develop new deep learning architectures and algorithms that allow current pathology detection and prediction of possible future disease trajectories.</span></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Your work environment will be the Neuroimage Analytics Laboratory (NAL) and the Biggs Institute Neuroimaging Core (BINC). We build advanced neuroimage analytical techniques to derive discovery. Data-driven approaches are of special interest in our lab, as machine learning and machine intelligence will guide the scientist towards the finding. On broader goal, our tools help delivering precise diagnostics on an individual’s level and ultimately could guide treatment progress.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:13.3333px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">We are part of the Biggs Institute (<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://biggsinstitute.org/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline">https://biggsinstitute.org</a>), which is being established as a flagship, free-standing institute within University of Texas Health San Antonio (UTHSA), with the mission of establishing an interdisciplinary, integrated program to provide comprehensive clinical care and undertake innovative and important research into the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease and other neurodegenerative conditions, including vascular contributions to dementia, Parkinson’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. It has strong institutional and community support and will benefit from existing resources within UTHSA such as the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, the Center for Biomedical Neuroscience, the School of Nursing, the Cancer Center, and the Research Imaging Institute along with the San Antonio campus of the UT Health Houston School of Public Health.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:13.3333px;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Responsibilities</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0in 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Develop, test and validate novel architectures and algorithms for deep (transfer) learning with neuroimaging data</span></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0in 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Apply your validated methods to large scale research and real life everyday clinical routine neuroimaging data</span></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0in 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Willingness to work in teams, within NAL, BINC and Biggs and with national and international collaborators</span></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0in 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Communicate your research results to the larger communities through publications in international conferences and journals</span></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0in 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Work with great deal of independence in achieving research goals </span></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Requirements</span></strong><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0in 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">A PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision or Medical Image Analytics with solid experience in deep learning; Experience in Neuroimaging and Dementia Research is a plus.</span></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0in 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Great eagerness to solve scientific problems</span></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0in 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Strong programming skills, e.g. in Python, R, C++ and Java. Experience with Python deep learning toolboxes and high-performance computational facilities could be a plus;</span></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0in 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Excellent record of publishing in relevant high-quality journals in the above fields</span></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in 0in 0in 47.25pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,34,34)">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:New"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Excellent communication abilities in English; spoken and written.</span></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></div><div class="gmail-yiv7658251578MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">If interested, please send a copy of your CV to Dr. Habes (</span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:habes@uthscsa.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">habes@uthscsa.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">)</span></div></div>