Student Research Assistant - Clinical NLP - Germany - Heidelberg

[Ali Reza Ebadat]

Student Research Assistant - Clinical NLP (m/f/d)

40h/months - JobID: P0035V295

searched for the division of Bioinformatics and Systems Cardiology at the Klaus Tschira Institute for Integrative Computational Cardiology / Department of Internal Medicine III as soon as possible.

The position is initially limited to 6 months with option of further extension.

The division of Bioinformatics and Systems Cardiology at the Klaus Tschira Institute for Integrative Computational Cardiology develops software to study the causes of cardiac disorders ( https://github.com/dieterich-lab ). To accomplish this, we use methods from bioinformatics as well as from clinical data science and natural language processing (NLP).

Tasks

The successful applicant will enter a collaborative research environment and contribute to the group's NLP portfolio. The successful applicant will work on noisy unstructured clinical data in German language, applying state-of-the-art NLP methods to extract clinical information.

Main tasks:

• Preparation and curation of data sets for clinical information extraction tasks
• Data cleaning and data preprocessing
• Designing and performing NLP experiments using rule based and machine/deep learning based methods

Required Qualifications

• BA/MA student of computational linguistics, computer science or comparable relevant background and level of expertise
• Good Python programming skills
• Experience using the command line on Linux systems (Bash)
• Experience using the Python data science and NLP stack.
• Experience in handling large-scale scientific data sets
• Experience in agile development is a plus
• Good spoken and written English is expected

Your technical expertise is complemented by essential soft skills, the ability to communicate and work in teams, flexibility and targeted action.

What we offer

The Dieterich Lab (www. dieterichlab.org) offers a stimulating, diverse and international research environment. We are embedded in a vibrant community of cardiovascular research labs and collaborate with many experimentally or theoretically oriented labs in the Heidelberg area.

Contact & Application

Please upload a covering letter and a CV direct online.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions.

Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg Zentrum für Innere Medizin Klinik für Kardiologie, Angiologie, Pneumologie (Innere Medizin III) Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Dieterich Im Neuenheimer Feld 669 69120 Heidelberg sekretaria...@med.uni-heidelberg.de