Tulane University
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Job Description
Description
The Postdoctoral Fellow applicant will work in conjunction with the Principal Investigator to develop databases, machine learning models, predictive tools and web-based data/model sharing toolkits for drug side effects, efficacy predictions and designing new medicines for various human related diseases. Hao Zhu lab at Tulane focuses on investigating the use of public big data and informatics tools to study new drugs and drug candidates for their potential impact on human health.
Qualifications
1. PhD in Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related science and engineering field.
2. Experience with cheminformatics modeling and associated machine learning tools.
Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
1. Computer programming experience in a statistical programming language such as R and a scripting language such as Python or Perl.
2. Experience with analysis of chemical data (such as high throughput screening data) in toxicology studies and/or drug discovery.
3. Expertise in statistics and machine learning.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
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