[Turing-Southampton] Turing Call for a Co-investigator for Postdoctoral Research Associate – Statistical machine learning for randomized clinical trials

[Susan Davies]

Dear All

Call for a Co-investigator for Postdoctoral Research Associate – Statistical machine learning for randomized clinical trials

Please find attached the role description for a co-investigator role to work alongside the Turing Programme Director for Health and Medical Sciences, Professor Chris Holmes, on an exciting new collaboration between The Alan Turing Institute and the MRC Clinical Trials Unit (MRC CTU) at UCL, exploring the potential impact of statistical machine learning on the design, conduct and analysis of randomised clinical trials.

The co-investigator will work with Professor Holmes and a postdoctoral researcher to explore novel statistical machine learning methods for the identification of treatment effect heterogeneity in RCTs, and predictive models of personalised treatment effects. Particular attention will be paid to issues around interpretability, reproducible research, validation of AI methods and the assessment of false discovery rates.

Successful candidates should have a strong quantitative background and preferably a strong statistical machine learning background and be eager to do research at the interface of AI and clinical trials with a strong societal impact.

If you are available from November 2019 up until 2022 (exact dates tbc), The Alan Turing Institute will buy-out your time (0.2 FTE) from your home institution.

Please express your interest for the role by applying via the online portal Flexi-Grant at https://ati.flexigrant.com<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fati.flexigrant.com&data=01%7C01%7C%7C7f28786c9887406c67a808d71a43f133%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=R7V%2BrsyCqt4SsTGiMioLyCoVdhhhdnIlDR228WelbYg%3D&reserved=0> by Friday 13 September 2019 at 23:59. You will be required to send a short CV, contact details for your referees and a two-page (maximum) cover letter on how you meet the person specification above and your research interests. Along with a CV and covering letter, please also submit a research output to support your application, for the Turing to read before the interview.

Interviews will take place week commencing 7 October 2019.

Please do not hesitate to contact healthprogramme at turing.ac.uk<mailto:healthprogramme at turing.ac.uk> if you have any questions.

Please let me know if you submit an application.

Best wishes

Susan
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Susan Davies
Coordination Manager, Web Science Institute<https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi/index.page?>
University Liaison Manager, The Alan Turing Institute<https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi/alan-turing-institute/alan-turing-institute.page>
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