Post-bachelor Research Assistant in Theoretical Biology and Artificial Intelligence, Entry Level

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Job Summary:

Los Alamos National Laboratory is a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security. They are seeking a Research Assistant to conduct research in mathematical and theoretical biology and artificial intelligence, focusing on viral dynamics and immune system modeling.

Responsibilities:

• Pursue research in mathematical and theoretical biology and artificial intelligence, with emphasis on problems in influenza virus and immune system modeling

• Develop models in collaboration with experimental scientists that generate new insights into the dynamics of viral infections, the immune response and virus-immune system interactions

• Use the principles from viral infection, transmission and control and immune responses to develop frameworks for other non-biological systems (such as large language models)

Qualifications:

Required:

• Enthusiastic students with mathematical, statistical and machine learning skills.

• Strong interest in viral dynamics, immunology and artificial intelligence.

• Good programming skills.

• Good working knowledge of one or more mathematical or statistical packages (e.g., Python and R).

• Excellent English (both written and oral).

• Bachelor of Science degree in data science, computational biology, mathematics, computer science, physics or a related field.

Preferred:

• Education and demonstrated research experience in one of the following areas: data science, machine learning, large language models, computational biology, or mathematical modeling.

Company:

Los Alamos National Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security, is Founded in 1943, the company is headquartered in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, with a team of 10001 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.