Job Description
Introduction
The Outreach and Research Programme of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health has ten community-based field sites across Pakistan (including four in Karachi) and focuses on research for betterment of women and child health. The Department has a Nutritional Research Laboratory as well as an Infectious Disease Research Laboratory that cater to the needs of its research projects. It has well-acclaimed work to its credit both at the national and international level.
As an equal opportunity employer, AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.
Responsibilities
you will be responsible to:
- developing machine learning models, including familiarity with techniques in clustering, classification, regression, optimization, recommendation, natural language processing, and others
- understanding of data and analytical frameworks in health care industry
- articulate research questions, form hypotheses, review and synthesize existing literature
- work effectively with people at all levels in the organization
- cope with multiple tasks with minimum guidance
- understand the current processes and provide automation and digitization
- collect, manipulate, pre-process and analyze complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources and present insights using different visualization tools.
Requirement
You should have:
- bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/engineering or MSc in health data science or equivalent
- fresh or having one year of work experience will be preferred
- expertise in scripting and programming skills; Proficiency with any of the tools will be plus (Java,Android, R, STATA, Python, Power BI, VS Code)
- excellent problem-solving and Analytical skill
- excellent communication and presentation skills; Experience presenting insights to technical and non-technical colleagues
- mature, reliable and responsible attitude
- ability to understand and follow instruction
- ability to speak and understand job related English and Urdu.
- skills in data collection, management, analysis, and interpretation.
