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PhD vacancy: Responsible Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning for Healthcare.

June 8, 2022

We have a fully-funded PhD position in the exciting area of Responsible
Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning for Healthcare in the
Amsterdam
UMC <https://www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research.htm> at the University of
Amsterdam <https://www.uva.nl/en>!

Do you have a strong background in NLP and AI, and a keen interest in
applications in healthcare, multilingual language models and model
interpretability? Please consider applying, we are accepting applications
until June 12, 2022!

A few of the exciting projects you can contribute to include developing
technology to predict risk of cancer from patients’ medical notes, and risk
of developing mental disorders from electronic patient records and other
non-clinical data (e.g., social media).

The PhD will be jointly supervised by myself
<https://iacercalixto.github.io/> and prof. Ameen Abu-Hanna
<https://kik.amc.nl/home/aabuhanna/>! Apply here:
https://werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures/research/phd-natural-language-processing-and-machine-learning-for-healthcare


*Iacer Calixto* | Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
| Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam
i.coimbra@amsterdamumc.nl | iacer.calixto@uva.nl | iacercalixto.github.io.
<http://iacercalixto.github.io/>
Member of the ACL <https://www.aclweb.org/portal/> and the ELLIS Society
<https://ellis.eu/>.

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