1 Postdoc in Deep Learning / Reinforcement Learning

• Develop, implement and apply digital twins and RL agents based on multimodal health data for personalized recommendations of dietary and other health behavior to improve health
• Collaborate with causal inference researchers to jointly develop methods for analyzing multimodal digital N-of-1 trials (patient reported outcomes, wearables, images, audio, omics data) linking causal inference and deep learning
• Develop methodology for individual-level inference of large epidemiological studies (e.g., EPIC Potsdam study, German National Cohort study) including omics data
• Implement the developed models for multimodal studies run on the StudyU platform (https://studyu.health/) with collaborators in Germany, Australia, USA, South Korea and Ghana
• Develop clear data visualizations, reports, and written summaries to communicate results - for scientific publications but also for study participants and patients
• Collaborate with clinicians, epidemiologists, software developers and laboratory scientists in the design of new studies and analysis of existing data

• Excellent master and doctoral degree with demonstrated expertise in Deep Learning / Multimodal Learning / Reinforcement Learning
• Publication record at top machine learning conferences
• Expertise in programming languages such as R or Python
• Experience with advanced deep learning frameworks & open-source software development
• Strong communication skills and ability to work in interdisciplinary teams

• Opportunity to develop your own research profile among the exciting research topics described above
• A dynamic, international and interdisciplinary research environment as well as excellent working conditions and outstanding technical equipment
• Employment with remuneration according to TV-L, level 13, plus annual special payment and company pension scheme
• Family-friendly working conditions (certificate “audit berufundfamilie”)
• Supporting of mobility with a jobticket for using the public transport
• Location close to the vibrant city of Berlin, with easy accessibility by public transport or car
• 30 days of vacation
• Participation in the benefits program for employees (“Corporate Benefits”)

The advertised position is available for initially 3 years.

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