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you\'ll be part of our life-changing Mission and Vision. You\'ll work in
a truly inclusive environment where diversity and equity are championed
through words and actions. You\'ll contribute to an innovative culture
that is second to none, one that embraces curiosity, discovery and
compassion. You\'ll play a role in something that\'s never been done
before as we integrate science and clinical care to help patients
achieve better, faster outcomes - as we Advance Human Ability, together.
Job Description Summary
The overarching vision of the Center for Bionic Medicine is to develop,
evaluate, and translate transformative technology to advance Human
Ability. We seek a post-doctoral fellow to build on the most recent
advances in human pose estimation, wearable sensors, and artificial
intelligence to improve mobility outcomes in rehabilitation. Clinically
applicable markerless motion capture, being pioneered by the Cotton Lab,
now enables gait analysis during clinic visits, and a critical next step
is to maximize health-related information to guide Precision
Rehabilitation decision-making in the era of Big Data.
We seek a candidate to use human pose estimation techniques and gait
analysis to connect gait parameters to functional outcome assessments,
with a particular emphasis on predicting home mobility and falls.
Candidates should be comfortable working with large datasets, both from
our technology and the electronic medical record, and should be excited
to use these datasets to improve clinical outcomes. Experience with
biomechanics, deep learning, and causal inference are beneficial.
The Cotton Lab is a full-stack lab with almost all our technology
designed in-house allowing complete control over the workflows and
pipelines and the opportunity to learn the internals of these systems.
This includes our markerless motion capture system, where the candidate
can refine the human pose estimation algorithms producing the
biomechanical estimates. It also provides the opportunity to observe how
sensors are designed and fabricated, to modify the firmware and
algorithms running on the sensors as well as the data acquisition
pipeline through to the cloud infrastructure. The lab has a mature
database-backed data management and computational pipeline
infrastructure, that accelerates work with the large data produced by
this system and keeps the focus on the important questions. We also have
many strong collaborations with machine learning researchers across the
world, providing a great opportunity to learn about and use cutting-edge
methods.
The Post-Doctoral Fellow - CBM will consistently demonstrate support of
the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab statement of Vision, Mission and Core Values
by striving for excellence, contributing to the team efforts and showing
respect and compassion for patients and their families, fellow
employees, and all others with whom there is contact at or in the
interest of the institute.
The Post-Doctoral Fellow - CBM will demonstrate Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Core Attributes: Communication, Accountability,
Flexibility/Adaptability, Judgment/Problem Solving, Customer Service and
Core Values (Hope, Compassion, Discovery, Collaboration, & Commitment to
Excellence) while fulfilling job duties.
Job Description
The Postdoctoral Fellow will:
- Designs, executes, and interprets kinematics during gait and
function outcomes collected with both markerless motion capture and
wearable sensors, including data collection, processing, and
algorithm development.
- Related measurements collected during clinical assessments to
real-world mobility outcomes measured with wearable sensors,
analyzed within a causal framework for precision rehabilitation.
- Work with c inical populations with gait impairments including
lower-limb prosthesis users and people with a history of a stroke
and other neurologic conditions.
- Assists with the development of collaborative projects within and
outside the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and test ideas for new project
development.
- Applies for fellowships and grants for external lab funding and
career development.
- Develops, submits, and publishes the results of research projects in
high-quality journals and presents data to public
conferences/seminars when needed.
- Participates in weekly lab meetings, journal clubs, and seminars.
- Builds and maintains a well-organized and accountable journal of own
laboratory protocols, experiments, results, and analyses.
- Performs all other duties that may be assigned in the best interest
of the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.
Reporting Relationships
- Reports directly to the assigned Principal Investigator
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required
Requires the academic knowledge associated with a doctorate degree in
Biomedical Engineering (PhD), or equivalent.
Typically, less 4 years of postdoctoral training.
Background in engineering with knowledge or interest in biomedical
applications and data science.
Strong computational skills ar