[Corpora-List] Post-Doctoral Position in Health Informatics - University of Minnesota

[Ted Pedersen]

The University of Minnesota Department of Pharmaceutical Care and
Health Systems (Twin Cities) and the Computer Science Department
(Duluth) invite applicants for a post-doctoral position in health
informatics. This position will support a project that will focus on
developing measures of semantic relatedness among biomedical concepts
and applying these measures for medication safety surveillance. The
University of Minnesota has a strong emphasis on Biomedical and Health
Informatics. The successful applicant for this position will join a
dynamic and rapidly growing group of investigators with a broad
spectrum of expertise including informatics, computer science,
pharmacy, medicine, public health, linguistics and cognitive science.

The successful candidate will have a doctorate degree in computer
science, computational linguistics, information science, health
informatics or a closely related discipline. The candidate will also
have a strong programming background (Java, C++ and/or Perl) as the
work will involve software development and evaluation including
database management and web-based technologies.

Preference will be given to candidates with strong backgrounds in
natural language processing and machine learning and those that have
demonstrated experience in working with measuring semantic similarity
and ontological and terminological resources such as WordNet, UMLS,
SNOMED-CT. Familiarity with building software applications for
distributed multi-processor platforms is also a plus.

Interested individuals should submit a letter of intent, a curriculum
vitae, and contact information for three references to : Dr. Serguei
Pakhomov (pakh0002 at umn.edu) and Dr. Ted Pedersen (tpederse at d.umn.edu)

Application review process will begin on February 1, 2009. This is a
one year appointment, which can be renewed for up to three years.

-- 
Ted Pedersen
http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse

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