Would you be interested in spending 1 – 2 years as a postdoc on a research project (of your choice) in a small but ambitious research environment in southwest Sweden? The School of Information Technology (ITE) at Halmstad University invites one or several candidates* holding doctoral degrees to develop a collaborative MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowship application.

You can find more about the scheme, eligibility and application here.

The selected candidate(s) will together with mentors from the School of Information Technology at Halmstad University develop a joint project proposal with the School of Information Technology as the host organization.

The availability of data related to the patient journey is changing rapidly in healthcare. Information-driven care will make use of all this data, together with data analytics and machine learning, to improve the healthcare system. There are still challenges to address, from pure machine learning challenges to the transformation into an information-driven healthcare system. We are looking for a topic that falls under Information Driven Care, as follows (but not limited to):

• representation learning
• eXplainable AI (XAI) and other topics related to Trustworthy AI
• large scale data analytics (eg. federated learning)
• machine learning using multi-modal longitudinal data (e.g. patient trajectories)
• privacy preserving data mining and machine learning
• graph-based techniques and graph neural networks (GNN)
• NLP and large language models (LLM)

This position will be associated with the Information Driven Care research program  and the CAISR Health research profile and the candidate(s) will be working with Prof. Mattias Ohlsson and Dr. Farzaneh Etminani. If you are interested in developing such a proposal with us, email your CV and a one-page outline of your research idea as early as possible and latest by Farzaneh Etminani (mattias.ohlsson@hh.se, farzaneh.etminani@hh.se).

Halmstad University prepares people for the future by creating values, driving innovation and developing society. Since the beginning in 1983, the University has been characterised as forward-thinking and cross-border. Halmstad University is known for its popular and reality-based programmes and small student groups. The research at Halmstad University is internationally renowned and is pursued in interdisciplinary innovation and research environments, with its overarching profiles “Health innovation” and “Smart cities and communities”. The University takes an active part in the development of society through extensive and recognised collaboration with both the private and public sector e.g. via our collaboration and innovation arenas, such as the Digital Laboratory Centre (DLC). Halmstad University has about 12,000 registered students and a staff of 700.

The School of Information Technology (ITE) is the most research-intensive part of Halmstad University (HH). The School of ITE is a “complete academic environment”, which means that research, education, and collaboration with external partners are closely linked. The school is organized into two departments: The Department of Intelligent Systems and Digital Design (ISDD) and the Department for Computing and Electronics for Real-time and Embedded Systems (CERES). The research is organized into four technology areas: Aware Intelligent Systems, Digital Service Innovation, Systems of Cyber Physical Systems, and Smart Electronic Systems. The first two are core areas within the ISDD department, the latter two are core areas within the CERES department.

It is the ISDD department that will be the host of the proposed project, and has currently 85 staff members, wherein approximately 59 are active in the AI area. The focus of AI has been lately focused on two main application areas: healthcare and mobility, aka information-driven care (IDC) and predictive maintenance. Information Driven Care (IDC) is now a research program funded by HH and hosts several research projects within this area of research.

You can find more info about the opportunity of becoming a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at Halmstad University here.

(* who on the date of the call deadline 11 September 2024 are in possession of a doctoral degree or have successfully defended a doctoral thesis, and maximum of 8 years fulltime equivalent experience in research, measured from the date of award of the doctoral degree.)