Job Description

The National University of Singapore invites applications for a Research Fellow (Bioinformatics Specialist/Data Scientist) in the Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

Main duties and responsibilities

The Research Fellow (RF) will be responsible to, and work closely with, the Principal Investigator (PI) and study team members to successfully deliver research outcomes pursued in several funded projects.

• Perform data analysis using statistical and computational techniques.
• Project planning, manuscript preparation and grant applications.

Qualifications

The applicant should:

• Have a good PhD degree in computation biology, bioinformatics or equivalent from a well-recognized university, with a minimum of 2 years post PhD experience.
• Experience with data technologies, bioinformatics, algorithm design, microarray data, RNA Sequencing, and RNA Sequencing data pre-processing, will be considered favorably.
• Experience with statistical analysis including machine learning (SVM, random Forests, Regression), significance testing, empirical p-value calculation, regression, clustering and deep learning.
• Able to work independently and in a team, and must have good interpersonal and communication skills
• Possess good organizational skills
• Skilled in the following applications, e.g. SPSS, “R”, Stata, Python etc

Appointments will be made on a yearly contract basis with the possibility of extension.

Remuneration will be commensurate with the candidate’s qualifications and experience.

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Additional Information

At NUS, the health and safety of our staff and students is one of our utmost priorities and COVID-vaccination supports our commitment to ensure the safety of our community and to make NUS as safe and welcoming as possible. Many of our roles require significant amount of physical interactions with student / staff / public members. Even for job roles that can be performed remotely, there will be instances where on-campus presence is required.

With effect from 15 January 2022, based on Singapore’s legal requirements, unvaccinated workers will not be able work at the NUS premises. As such, we regret to inform that job applicants need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 for successful employment with NUS.

More Information

Location: Kent Ridge Campus
Organization: Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Department : Medicine
Employee Referral Eligible: No