PhD position in statistical data science with medical applications

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Context and supervision: The recruited student will be jointly supervized by Prof.

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Ben Spycher (Epidemiology) and closely collaborate with the teams of Prof.

PhD position in statistical data science with medical applications May 10, 2022 PhD position in statistical data science with medical applications In the framework of a collaboration between the University of Bern and Inselspital (Bern University Hospital), we are seeking highly qualified, motivated and creative candidates wishing to develop innovative statistical & machine learning methods in the area of personalized health.

David Ginsbourger (Statistics) and PD Dr. Petra Stute (Endocrinological gynecology, Inselspital) and Dr. Rowan Iskandar (Health economics, SITEM Insel) within their joint project funded by the newly created Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID).

There will also be interactions with a related project in the framework of the Center of Artificial Intelligence for Medecine (CAIM). Project: The overarching goal is to help developing a digital medical device App for women in or after menopause.

The App will work with data from a smart tracker to drive statistical machine learning models to produce personalized risk assessments of chronic disease development and will issue early warnings (red flags) of potential respiratory tract infections (e.g. common colds, flu, COVID-19), ideally before symptoms begin.

Beyond preliminary data handling, analysis and modelling tasks involved in