Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships University of Wisconsin

March 5, 2008

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The BioNLP research group headed by Dr. Hong Yu at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is looking for a number of talented and motivated PhD students, postdoctoral candidates, consultants, and a programmer to join the team.

The group’s activities include building information systems for biologists
and physicians that allow them to efficiently access information from heterogeneous databases (e.g., literature, electronic medical records, images, web, and other types of databases), and developing natural language processing, information retrieval and extraction, image processing and question answering techniques.

About University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee:
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is a major urban university, committed to academic excellence, located in the commercial and industrial hub of Wisconsin. The campus is in a pleasant residential neighborhood on Milwaukee’s northeast side, only a few blocks from Lake Michigan.
UW-Milwaukee is one of the two “doctoral cluster” campuses in the 13-campus
University of Wisconsin System, with a student enrollment of approximately
25,000.

About the PhD Position:
Candidates selected for doctoral position will be enrolled under the Computer Science PhD program, or the Medical Informatics PhD program. The Computer Science PhD program is offered by the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, while the Medical Informatics PhD program
is a multidisciplinary program offered by the College of Health Science,
College of Nursing, School of Business Administration, School of Information Studies and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and The Medical College of Wisconsin.
More information can be found at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/medinf/ .

How to apply:
Applications should include a curriculum vitae, cover letter, publication
list, and contact details of 3 referees. To apply, or for more information,
send an email to BioNLP-job@uwm.edu.

Candidates for the postdoctoral position should hold a MD, PhD or MD/PhD in
Bioinformatics, Applied Mathematics, Medical Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering, Computational Linguistics, or a related field; whereas candidates for the PhD position should hold a MS in any of these fields. Salary/stipend will be competitive and will depend on the candidate’s research experience. A minimum of a MS degree in Computational Linguistics is required for a consultant.

Job Information
Position Type: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships
Reference (Job ID number):
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: Full Time
Status: open
Contact Information
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Hong Yu
BioNLP@uwm.edu

http://www4.uwm.edu/chs/faculty/109~faculty.html

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