Postdoctoral Positions – Statistical Bioinformatics

Job ID: 881876
Job date: 2016-12-28
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Company : UCLA 

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Role : Postdoc 


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Job Description:
The research group “Junction of Statistics and Biology” led by Professor Jingyi Jessica Li (http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~jingyi.li/) in the Department of Statistics at UCLA invites applications for a postdoctoral position, available from November 2016. The research in the group focuses on developing statistical methods to address important biological and biomedical questions from high-throughput genetic and genomic data. Our current projects include: modeling bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing data for identifying and quantifying full-length mRNA transcripts, systematic identification of gene-gene and protein-DNA relationships using diverse genomic data, large-scale comparison of biological samples from different species using epigenomic and transcriptomic data, and statistical methodology development motivated by genomic applications (e.g., asymmetric error control in binary classification, high-dimensional variable selection, and measures of dependence). We will strongly support highly motivated postdocs to initiate independent lines of research.

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Requirements:

To be considered for this position, an applicant should have:

-A PhD degree in a related field (statistics, biostatistics, computer science, machine learning, mathematics, bioinformatics, computational biology, etc.)

-Strong programming skills: (Python | C | C++ | Java) & (R | Matlab).

-Strong quantitative background (statistical modeling, machine learning, etc.) or extensive computational genomics experiences (high-throughput sequencing data analysis, bioinformatic applications, etc.)

-First author paper(s) written in English in previous area of research, with status as submitted, accepted or published in journals or conference proceedings.

-Strong oral and written communication skills in English.

-The availability to visit UCLA for an onsite interview.


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Interested applicants should submit (1) a letter of interest, (2) a one-page proposal for a project to be conducted in Professor Li's group, (3) CV, and (4) three references (including name and contact information) with subject line “Postdoc application”.

Contact : Jingyi Jessica Li, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

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