Taxacom: TUBRI is searching for a Postdoctoral Research Associate

[Yasin Bakış]

The Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute (TUBRI) is searching
for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to be involved in exciting new
biology-guided, machine-learning research for two-years. TUBRI is a
research center of Tulane’s School of Science and Engineering, located on
the grounds of the F. Edward Hebert Research Center in Belle Chasse,
Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. TUBRI houses the Royal D. Suttkus Fish
Collection and specializes in biodiversity discovery (primarily involving
fishes) and biodiversity informatics research.

The postdoctoral research position is supported by a NSF Harnessing the
Data Revolution Institute grant project entitled, *Imageomics: A New
Frontier of Biological Information Powered by Knowledge-Guided Machine
Learning <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nsf.gov%2Fawardsearch%2FshowAward%3FAWD_ID%3D2118240&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C630198b833d14a6da71508db9e8b027e%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638278092231792817%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=7BvMv6Se140jTJrIYpRIEIJIy99h%2FXCCfH2VD0iXwLM%3D&reserved=0>*. This
collaborative, multi-investigator project involves biologists and computer
scientists who are applying machine-learning methods to extract phenotypic
trait data from images of a variety of types of biological specimens. The
learning is aided by structured biological knowledge such as, annotated
traits, anatomy, ontology and phylogenetic trees. The postdoctoral
researcher will contribute to ongoing efforts to extract trait data from
images of fish specimens under the mentorship of Henry L. Bart Jr.,
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and TUBRI Director, and Dr.
Yasin Bakış, TUBRI’s Senior Manager of Biodiversity Informatics and Data
Engineering.  The TUBRI postdoc will have opportunities to interact with
other biologists, computer scientists, postdocs, and students from the ten
other universities and research centers involved in the Imageomics
Institute.

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Successful candidate is expected to have a PhD in the Biological Sciences,
Biodiversity Informatics, Computer Science, Information Sciences,
Computational Biology/Bioinformatics, or a related field.

We encourage international candidates from all over the world. For
additional information about the position, including application
instructions, please contact Henry Bart (hbartjr at tulane.edu) or Yasin Bakış
(ybakis at tulane.edu).