The Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone" belonging to the National Research Council of Italy seeks expressions of interest for two post-doc positions of three years starting in September 2021.
The post-docs will be involved full time in the interdisciplinary EU research project "WARIFA". The WARIFA primary goal is to define a general personalised early risk assessment tool that will be used to support individual preventive measures for noncommunicable diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, the leading causes of death in the world. This system will be accessible for individual citizens and patients on their smartphone via the WARIFA app. The WARIFA project represents expertise within AI technology, applied mathematics, statistics, medicine, sociology.
We are looking for candidates with strong research expertise in applied probability and statistics, especially in mathematical foundations of machine learning, causal inference and bayesian belief networks, and advanced stochastic simulation techniques.
There are no teaching duties.
The positions will be formally advertised during the next months. In the meantime, those interested can send a mail to g.sebastiani@iac.cnr.it