Research Scientist position at Siemens Medical Solutions

[Wakefield-Perna Pat]

RESEARCH SCIENTIST
Computer-Aided Diagnosis & Therapy Solutions (CAD) Group
Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA

The Computer-Aided Diagnosis & Therapy Solutions Group, Siemens Medical
Solutions, USA, Inc. is building a world-class R&D team with researchers in
machine learning and/or probabilistic inference.  We have hired several
scientists and continue to grow with multiple, immediate and ongoing,
positions for Research Scientists (senior and entry level).

Outstanding candidates with the ability to solve challenging medical
problems, while continuing to publish in leading journals and conferences
will find a stimulating and rewarding career in the CAD Group.  In this
position, you will conduct leading-edge research in reasoning from
incomplete and structured medical patient data, classification of
patients/diseases, as well as machine learning fo automatically extracting
patterns from large amounts of numeric, imaging, text, and symbolic data,
combine imaging, clinical, and textual information, and other related areas.

Candidates must have significant research background in machine learning
(classification) and/or probabilistic inference, with publications in
leading conferences/journals.

Ideal candidates will have a Ph.D. in CS/EE/Statistics/Applied Math or an
engineering discipline with an inter-disciplinary background in machine
learning, probabilistic reasoning, and/or statistics, with a proven record
in research, innovative thinking, real world problem solving, and fast
prototyping.  Database and/or medical experience is a plus, but not
required.

Primary areas of interest include:
a)  All areas of probabilistic inference, Bayesian methods, temporal
reasoning & inference, probabilistic graphical models (e.g., Bayes Nets),
decision-making under uncertainty, and statistical learning.

b)  Classification methods from machine learning and statistics, and/or
neural networks.  Additional areas of interest include feature extraction,
mining large databases, predictive modeling, pattern recognition, text
mining, databases, natural language processing, information retrieval, time
series analysis and forecasting.

(Note:  To be considered for this position, you must have a Ph.D., or be
graduating fairly soon with a Ph.D. - latest by summer/fall 2004.)

Siemens Medical Solutions is located in Malvern, PA.  Malvern lies within
the Main Line area of the Philadelphia suburbs (with Philly being less than
a one hour drive away).  We offer a competitive salary and benefits package
that reflects our leadership status.

For consideration, please click on the link below and apply online.

http://careers.peopleclick.com/jobposts/Client40_Siemens/BU1/External/221-10071.htm

Please also include a list of publications; recent Ph.D.'s or Ph.D.
candidates should also include their thesis abstract.

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