| Applications are invited for 2/3 PhD or postdoc positions in data and text
mining applied to molecular biology. Successful candidates will join the
Medical Informatics Service, University Hospital of Geneva. They will
mainly pursue researches in the context of the EAGL project, but will work
in close connection with other projects:
-EAGL (Engine for Answering questions in Genomic Litterature)
http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/eagl/index.html
-SemanticMining (Semantic Interoperability and Data Mining in Biomedicine),
http://www.semanticmining.org/
-GenTrack (Genomic Text Tracking)
http://media.epfl.ch/research_GenTrack.html
-BioMinT (Biological Text Mining)
http://www.biomint.org/
Candidates should have the following qualifications:
-an outstanding academic record in computer science as well as strong
mathematical and programming skills;
-a solid background in at least two of the following fields: document engieneering,
information retrieval, information extraction, natural language processing,
machine learning, terminology management;
-good communication skills in English and French (or at least a clear
indication of willingness to learn the latter);
-an experience with biomedical databases and terminologies (UMLS,
Gene Ontology, Swiss-Prot, LocusLink...) would be an asset;
-an experience with MaxEnt, Kernel-based or Genetic algorithms would be also
an asset.
The salary for a PhD student is around 50000 Swiss Francs per annum.
The salary for a postdoc starts at 70000 Swiss Francs per annum.
Please send your curriculum vitae, academic transcript, and contact
information to [email protected] (cc to [email protected])
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