Postdoc Jobs in Chicago, IL

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Postdoc) -Dermatology

Hiring Department: Dermatology

Location: Chicago, IL USA

Requisition ID: 1037035

Posting Close Date:

Salary: The salary for this position is $62,232

About the University of Illinois Chicago

UIC is among the nation’s preeminent urban public research universities, a Carnegie RU/VH research institution, and the largest university in Chicago. UIC serves over 34,000 students, comprising one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation and is designated as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPSI) and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Through its 16 colleges, UIC produces nationally and internationally recognized multidisciplinary academic programs in concert with civic, corporate and community partners worldwide, including a full complement of health sciences colleges. By emphasizing cutting-edge and transformational research along with a commitment to the success of all students, UIC embodies the dynamic, vibrant and engaged urban university. Recent “Best Colleges” rankings published by News & World Report, found UIC climbed up in its rankings among top public schools in the nation and among all national universities. UIC has over 300,000 alumni, and is one of the largest employers in the city of Chicago.

The University of Illinois Chicago offers a very competitive benefits portfolio. .

The Postdoctoral Research Associate will lead AI model development for data analysis. The role centers on advanced transformers and multimodal models that integrate skin images with accompanying data. The postdoc will both curate/collect new datasets and leverage existing datasets to build robust, generalizable models.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design and implement cutting-edge transformer and multimodal architectures for skin image and data analysis.
• Build end-to-end ML pipelines (data ingestion, preprocessing, training, validation, deployment/packaging).
• Curate datasets: collect new data (as appropriate) and/or use existing data; ensure data quality, documentation, and governance.
• Rigorously evaluate model performance, bias, and generalizability; conduct ablations and error analysis.
• Prepare manuscripts, conference papers, and grant materials; present results internally and externally.
• Maintain reproducible codebases (version control, testing, MLOps best practices).
• Ensure compliance with institutional policies and applicable regulations/ethics for data use.
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• PhD in CS, ECE, BME, Biomedical Data Science, or related field.
• Strong background in deep learning with demonstrated experience in transformers and/or multimodal learning.
• Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks (, PyTorch, TensorFlow).
• Experience with computer vision or medical imaging model development and evaluation.
• Excellent communication skills and a strong publication record commensurate with career stage.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with clinical collaborations and handling regulated or sensitive health data.
• Familiarity with MLOps, experiment tracking, and reproducibility at scale.
• Prior work in dermatologic or biomedical imaging.