• Job Type: Short Term Casual
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Temporary
• End Date if Temporary: 6/30/26
• Hours Per Week: 5
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: 22.50 -22.50

Position Summary

The Department of Radiology under the guidance of Dr Sachin Jambawalikar seeks a Short-Term Casual Student Research Worker to support an ongoing AI-driven medical imaging research project focused on detection of intra-abdominal adhesions on CT scans. This role continues work initiated during the student’s graduate training and is expected to span 2-4 months.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the analysis of planned medical images
• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and reproducibility of analysis results.
• Curate, preprocess, and quality-control abdominal CT datasets
• Support radiologist-led annotation workflows
• Develop ML/DL pipelines for adhesion detection
• Perform validation, statistical analysis, and visualization
• Maintain reproducible research documentation
• Contribute to manuscripts, abstracts, and presentations
• Perform other duties as assigned in support of research goals.

Minimum Qualifications

• College graduate or equivalency in education and experience, and some related laboratory experience, usually six months.

Preferred Qualifications

• MS degree in Data Science Institute or related field

Other Requirements

• Intermediate to advanced proficiency with Python and data analysis tools
• Working knowledge of machine learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn)
• Proficient use of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) for documentation and reporting
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously with accuracy
• Excellent attention to detail and proactive follow-through of assigned projects
• Good organizational skills
• Good communication

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