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Title: RESEARCH FELLOW

Employee Type: Fellows

Department: Center of excellence-Cancer 

Campus Location: CANCER CENTER/SETON BLDG./2025

Job Summary/Basic Functions

The LSU Cancer Center is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with strong quantitative training to lead and support computational and methodological development across several active projects in systems immunology, virology, and cancer biology. The Postdoctoral Fellow must be comfortable operating across big data (sequencing and imaging) to develop novel analytical pipelines rather than applying off-the-shelf tools. The Postdoctoral Fellow will work closely with the PI, other faculty, and collaborators on alternative and exploratory projects that require deep analytical thinking, algorithmic development, and integration of biological insight with computational rigor. Specifically, the Postdoctoral Fellow will play a central role in advancing PhIP-seq analysis pipelines, and image analysis & deep learning development.

Other Information About the Position

The Postdoctoral Fellow will work in a highly collaborative, interdisciplinary environment.

The position offers opportunities to:
• Lead first-author methodological manuscripts
• Contribute to large NIH-funded, multi-omics projects
• Develop skills applicable to academia, industry, or data science leadership roles
• Help shape the computational infrastructure of a growing research program

Minimum Qualifications

Required Education: PhD or equivalent

Required Field of Study: Biomedical/Electrical Engineering, Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Computer Science, or related field OR Basic or health science, or related field 

Substitution: MD can substitute for a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Experience: 

• Strong proficiency in MATLAB, Python, and R
• Experience with NGS data analysis and statistical modeling
• Solid foundation in probability, statistics, and linear algebra
• Ability to reason critically about bias, artifacts, and assumptions in high-throughput data
• Comfortable working across biology, math, and computation
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX)
• Experience with HPC environments, GPUs, or large-scale data storage.

Additional Information About Our School/Department

Comprehensive benefits are available to eligible employees and their dependents including health, life, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plans; generous annual and sick leave; 14 paid holidays per year; and an employee health primary care clinic. See following link for more details on our benefits offerings: LSUHSC, New Orleans - Benefits

Other employee benefits include a full-service credit union, wellness benefits featuring complimentary fitness center membership for employees and their spouses, employee assistance program, campus assistance program, and pet insurance option. More information about these benefits can be found on this webpage:  Additional Benefits