Good morning,
Please see the Postdoc ad below for a Postdoctoral Researcher opportunity
at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) and the Computing
Science Department at the University of Alberta.
For more information, and details of how to apply, see
https://www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/A113942732/
*Post-doctoral Researcher*
*Using Machine Learning and Probabilistic Graphical Models for Modeling and
Forecasting Population-level Covid-19 Infections*
The Department of Computing Science, and Amii, at the University of Alberta
has an immediate opening for one or two postdoctoral fellows to work with
Professors Russ Greiner and Nidhi Hegde, to use machine learning techniques
to produce models that can accurately forecast the rate of Covid-19
infection, at a population (“city”) level. The appointment will be for one
year and may be renewable for an additional year subject to funding
availability and satisfactory performance.
The postdoctoral fellow will work in a multi-disciplinary group composed of
computer scientists, public health researchers, clinicians, and
epidemiologists. Research work will include:
- Designing and building predictive tools for predicting infection and
hospitalization rates due to Covid-19 several days and weeks into the
future;
- Curation of datasets for use in the models;
- Building and using various types of models, including temporal
probabilistic graphical modelling (e.g., extensions to HMMs) deep learning
/ LSTM models, as well as more standard learning models.
As the project work will involve interacting with researchers of many
diverse disciplines, the candidate must be able to understand various
systems and extract essential elements for modelling. The candidate must
have demonstrated expertise in design and implementation of Machine
Learning (including Deep Learning or Probabilistic Graphical Models),
dataset management and visualisation. Familiarity with machine learning for
time-varying dynamical systems will be an asset, as will knowledge of
epidemiology.
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Sabina Pietrosanu
Administrative Assistant
Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
University of Alberta
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