Assistant Professor
Meharry Medical College
Nashville, Tennessee
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JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Nashville, Tennessee
POSTED
4 days ago
Mission Statement: Meharry Medical College is a global academic health sciences center advancing health equity through innovative research, transformative education, exceptional and compassionate health services and policy-influencing thought leadership. True to its legacy, Meharry empowers diverse populations to improve the well-being of humankind.
Position Summary:
The Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science/Computer Science/Data Science will spend 62.5% of their time (i) effectively teaching computer science, data science, and biomedical data science courses, (ii) advising and mentoring School of Applied Computational Sciences (SACS) students, and (iii) developing instructional methods that will reflect best practices in pedagogy. The successful candidate will also spend 27.5% of their time demonstrating evidence of or potential for health disparities research utilizing data science techniques, and 10% of their time on institutional service, demonstrating the ability to work collaboratively with on-campus and off-campus colleagues and constituencies. The successful candidate will contribute to the School's mission by excelling in teaching, research, and service, with a primary focus on precision medicine or population health informatics to improve health outcomes.
Essential Functions (Principal Duties and Job Responsibilities):
- Teach graduate-level courses in biomedical data science, AI/ML, bioinformatics, or computational health sciences.
- Integrate technology appropriately and effectively into teaching and learning activities.
- Engage with students, colleagues, institutional partners, and the public professionally and collaboratively.
- Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, instructional materials, and teaching methods for courses within SACS.
- Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and support students.
- Collaborate with faculty colleagues to advance teaching, research, and program development.
- Support graduate students in securing and completing internships
- Lead and sustain an independently funded research program in biomedical data science.
- Mentor and support junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, and master's students.
- Collaborate across Meharry Medical College and with external institutions (e.g., Vanderbilt University, AIM-AHEAD, RCMI, NIH, NSF)..
- Advance Meharry's mission to reduce health disparities through data-driven research..
- Actively participate in departmental, school, and institutional committees.
- Contribute to the advancement of the department and college through collaborative engagement with on-campus and off-campus constituencies.
- Contribute to academic leadership, including program development, curriculum innovation, and departmental service
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
- Mainstream programming languages for data science, including Python, Java, and C++.
- Use of "other" potential programming languages including R, Scala, Julia, TensorFlow, Go, Spark.
- AI/ML Experience: AI/ML Techniques, Supervision and mentorship in academic AI/ML research; use of AI/ML in socially impactful, real-world problems.
- Agent AI Systems (LangChain, AutoGPT, Weaviate, Pinecone)
- Excellent written, verbal communication, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Sound judgment and maturity, exemplified by consistent professionalism in working with individuals at all levels, both internally and externally.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities Preferred:
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning for biomedical and health applications
- Genomics, multi-omics, or computational precision medicine
- Computational neuro
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