Data Analyst

The Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Division is made of up approximately 70 clinical staff and over 100 research staff who work in a variety of locations including: Bridgeside Point, Biomedical Science Tower (BST), UPMC Hospitals including Presbyterian, Shadyside, East, Jameson and Mercy. The division provides world class services across 10 inpatient services at five hospitals and over 70,000 outpatient office visits. We have a major research mission that focuses on basic, clinical, and translational research on the lung, microbiome, COVID-19, sleep medicine, and allergy and immunology.

The applicant is expected to work on several aspects of the data lab and project-based tasks. The database custodian, including multimodal, multigranular, continuous ICU data collection databased called MLADI (machine learning for acute disease instability) arrangement and maintenance. He/she is expected to communicate with the HSRDC or CRCD for data import and storage. The database would also need a web-based interface for other researchers to use (in the planning phase), for which we expect the applicant to help building the interface with the PI. In addition, the applicant is expected to polish and maintain pre-processing and featurization of waveforms library. With above activities, we expect the applicant could be able to achieve academic presentation / publication materials, which would be a milestone for him/her to grow in one's professional career as well.

Knowledge on objective-oriented programming language including Python (intermediate level) is required. Knowledge on recent advancement of computer science could be helpful, including foundation model.