Postdoctoral Fellow-MSH-12909-042

Salary: The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City    

Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $72500 - $80000 Annually.

Department: Medicine

Physical work location: 420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 656, New York, NY - 10170 

Name PI or Supervisor: Ankit Parekh; Email: ankit.parekh@mssm.edu; Phone: (212) 870-9803

Web link to Lab: https://icahn.mssm.edu/about/departments/medicine/pulmonary/research/sleep-analysis-group  

Web link to Department: https://icahn.mssm.edu/about/departments/medicine

Administrative Contact: Daniel Bunger (212-241-6500)

Details of Research Project: 

The postdoctoral fellow with the sleep and circadian analysis (SCAN) group led by Dr. Parekh will work at the intersection of AI/ML and Sleep. They will work with large-scale, multimodal sleep datasets,  including polysomnography, actigraphy, wearable signals, and clinical EHR data, to build and validate state-of-the-art machine learning models. The work is both technically ambitious and clinically meaningful, with direct implications for diagnosing and treating sleep disorders such as insomnia, sleep apnea, and circadian rhythm disorders. Fellow will also be responsible for developing pipelines for integration of the built models into clinical pipelines at Mount Sinai. 

Technical Duties: (include any protocols)

• Designs and executes scientific experiments.

• Regular presentation of data in lab meetings, seminars, and national/international meetings

• Provides data for grant submissions and progress reports for NIH and foundations.

• Analyzes and interprets research results and the scientific literature in connection with writing or editing high-quality grant fellowship applications, manuscripts, etc.

• Helps other researchers translate data results into a manuscript format and propel them to publication.

Educational and other Requirements for the position:

• PhD degree in a computational field (e.g., AI, Computer Science, Math)

• Advance knowledge of sleep medicine is a plus

Experience Required:

• Experience in sleep research

• Experience in clinical studies

• Experience in data cleansing, statistical analysis, manuscript writing.

Goals/Outcomes of the Research Project: 

The goal of this research is to deepen our understanding of how sleep disorders interact with various clinical comorbidities, including cardiovascular disorders, mortality, dementia, and others. The outcomes of this research will include the dissemination of findings to the scientific community, which may pave the way for novel approaches to disease intervention and therapy.

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