Recruiting Postdocs: Healthcare Foundation Models (Stanford University)

[fries...@gmail.com]

My lab at Stanford University is recruiting multiple postdoctoral scholars! Complete details are available at https://web.stanford.edu/~jfries/join-us/

The Fries Lab develops and evaluates healthcare foundation models that learn from longitudinal EHRs, clinical text, and multimodal data. Our work emphasizes temporal reasoning, principled benchmarking, and data-centric model design.

🔬 Research themes
• Multimodal & longitudinal foundation models
• Benchmarking and evaluation for healthcare AI
• Multimodal medical reasoning & patient representation learning
• Data-centric AI and synthetic data generation
• Human-AI teaming
• Application areas: oncology and precision medicine, pediatrics

🎯 Who should apply
• PhD in ML-related field (computer science, data science, informatics)
• Strong ML research background with publications in top ML or medical AI venues
• Interest in real-world clinical data and collaboration
• Enthusiasm for mentorship and collaboration with students and clinicians

🚀 What we offer
• Competitive salary + benefits (visa sponsorship available)
• Large-scale GPU access (B200, H100, A100, L40S)
• Massive longitudinal datasets (~4M patients, notes + imaging)

📄 How to apply
• Email your application materials to: jfr...@stanford.edu
• Subject line: `Postdoc Application 2026 – Fries Lab`
• Include: research statement (≤3 pages), CV, and 3 references
• Start date: Summer–Fall 2026
• Location: Palo Alto, CA
• Review process: Applications reviewed on a rolling basis