Columbia Department of Biomedical Informatics · 6 months ago
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
New York, NY
Internship
Onsite
InternColumbia University Irving Medical Center's Department of Biomedical Informatics is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Scientist with expertise in computer science and machine learning. The role involves collaborating on a National Science Foundation funded project focused on human-centered reinforcement learning for personalized nutritional coaching.
Higher Education
Responsibilities
Investigate human-centered and scalable reinforcement learning (RL) solutions to learn conversational structures that align with human expectations
Work with a multidisciplinary team to develop a corpus of dialogs to identify human preferences and expectations for optimal dialog structures
Develop novel RL architectures
Work with a team to develop a chatbot that incorporates this novel RL architecture
Prepare scientific manuscripts and present them at conferences and other scientific venues
Participate in grant proposal preparation
Teach and mentor PhD and master’s students
Prepare new courses
Qualification
Required
Requires a PhD in Computer Science or related fields
Must have excellent organization, oral communication, and scientific writing skills
Background and expertise in machine learning and reinforcement learning
Experience implementing ML&RL algorithms in Python
Preferred
Experience with inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) and learning from human preferences through reinforcement learning (RLHF)
Background with natural language processing techniques
Previous experience with applications of ML in healthcare
Previous experience in Human-computer interaction
Company
Columbia Department of Biomedical Informatics
Located on the Columbia University Medical Center (CUIMC) campus, the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) is both an academic department and an information services partner to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, a major healthcare provider in greater New York.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase