{"job":{"jobId":2498437,"fk_accountId":null,"fk_organizationId":494,"fk_adminAccountId":null,"title":"Research Fellow - Senior Cogstack Developer","description":"\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">Job description</p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">CogStack (<a data-mz=\"\" href=\"https://cogstack.org/\" rel=\"no-follow\">https://cogstack.org</a>/; <a data-mz=\"\" href=\"https://github.com/CogStack/\" rel=\"no-follow\">https://github.com/CogStack/</a>) is an award-winning ecosystem of tools and workflows that facilitate the ingestion, structuring, organising and visualisation of Electronic Health Record (EHR) data built by a multidisciplinary team of software developers, machine learning engineers and NLP researchers, clinical and health informaticians. The CogStack team is at the forefront of building impactful solutions through partnership with UK NHS Trusts and international healthcare providers (e.g. Australia and the Netherlands), tackling real world clinical problems supporting use cases from state-of-the-art clinical research through to translational research delivering innovative solutions for direct patient care. (<a data-mz=\"\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU9ls9J9AmM\" rel=\"no-follow\">www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU9ls9J9AmM)</a>). </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">The CogStack team benefits from sitting within a leading programme of clinical, health and bioinformatics at the Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics and forms a key component of both the Centre for Translational Informatics, Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) National Text Analytics Programme and the London AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare. </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">Major funding has been awarded by the Office for Life Sciences, InnovateUK and recently a Stage 3 AI for Health and Social Care Award from NHSx to scale this technology across the NHS and beyond. As such, this is an exciting time to be joining the team as they embark on next steps, which could involve the opportunity for the postholder playing a role in CogStack as a University spin out. The ecosystem has already been recognised in Government reports to the Chief Medical Officer, NHSx AI reports, NHS Tech Plan and keynote speeches by the Health Secretary. </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">The postholder will contribute to the technical development, deployment across the NHS (currently ~10 major Trusts) and maintenance of the ecosystem, which includes the CogStack-Nifi (<a data-mz=\"\" href=\"https://github.com/CogStack/CogStack-Nifi\" rel=\"no-follow\">https://github.com/CogStack/CogStack-Nifi</a>) and MedCAT (<a data-mz=\"\" href=\"https://github.com/CogStack/MedCAT\" rel=\"no-follow\">https://github.com/CogStack/MedCAT</a>) projects alongside any deployment specific enhancements and specialisations. </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">The work will include contributing to our clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, algorithms and interfaces used by clinical specialists. This includes Foresight (or MedGPT), a novel GPT-based pipeline that is trained on NHS data to forecast future medical events such as disorders, medications, symptoms and interventions ( <a data-mz=\"\" href=\"https://foresight.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/\" rel=\"no-follow\">https://foresight.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk/</a>; <a data-mz=\"\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i7faJV-hg4\" rel=\"no-follow\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i7faJV-hg4</a>; <a data-mz=\"\" href=\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08072\" rel=\"no-follow\">https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08072</a>). </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">The post holder will be expected to be able to contribute to the following areas:</p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Extend our software platforms for electronic healthcare record research and direct care that includes Large Language Model (LLM) capability embedded within NHS infrastructure, with industry partners including Nvidia. </li>\n<li>Data manipulation and analysis capability, e.g. machine/deep learning in Python or other available tools with an interest in integrating multimodal data from EHRs. </li>\n<li> Excellent communication skills are required to describe and understand the requirements, key challenges and evaluate methodologies of electronic health records research and development. </li>\n<li>Experience writing research project applications and plans is desirable. </li>\n</ul>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">The successful candidate will have relevant data analysis and programming skills (e.g. Python, R) are required. </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">This post will be offered on a full-time, fixed term contract for 3 years.</p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">Key responsibilities</p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>Key objectives</strong> </p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Contribute to the ongoing development, documentation, maintenance and deployment of the CogStack ecosystem of technologies at multiple NHS Trusts. </li>\n<li>Utilise CogStack/MedCAT’s search, data analytics and continuous learning functionalities to support clinical and research studies with collaborating clinicians or researchers. </li>\n<li>Contribute to the development and deployment of SOTA LLM approaches for the benefit of health. </li>\n<li>Organise and participate in meetings with local and external collaborators. </li>\n<li>Develop possible new research analyses and ideas. </li>\n<li>Write-up Project proposals and applications. </li>\n</ul>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>Communication & Networking:</strong></p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>To collaborate within King’s College London and with collaborating centres, necessary for successful completion of the project. This will require frequent e-mail correspondence, teleconferences and participation in face-to-face meetings. </li>\n<li>Promote cross-theme activities within the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre and the Centre for Translational Informatics and cross-university activities within HDR UK.</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>Decision Making, Planning & Problem Solving:</strong></p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The post holder will be responsible for day-to-day decisions to ensure smooth running of the project and will be expected to consult with local leads for major decisions. </li>\n<li>To work independently in planning day to day activities in accordance with the project deadlines as agreed with their line-manager. </li>\n</ul>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>Service Delivery</strong>: </p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The successful candidate will work towards delivering the goals described in our funding remit </li>\n<li>Provide specialist or professional advice, particularly to other healthcare and academic sites, in the deployment and use of CogStack tools. </li>\n</ul>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>Team Work, Teaching & Learning Support:</strong></p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The candidate will be expected to collaborate with an established team at the Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics and participate in CogStack team meetings </li>\n<li>The candidate will also be expected to collaborate and liaise with external collaborators. </li>\n</ul>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>Sensory/Physical Demands & Work Environment:</strong></p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Use of keyboard is required for more than 75% of working time </li>\n</ul>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>Other duties</strong></p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>To undertake occasional other duties requested by the line manager and Head of Department </li>\n</ul>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><em>The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.</em> </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">Skills, knowledge, and experience</p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>Essential criteria</strong> </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">1. MSc or equivalent experience in relevant area e.g, computer science, NLP, deep learning, clinical informatics, software development, machine learning </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">2. Software programming – competent with independent working in one of Python, Javascript or Java. </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">3. Software development experience in large-scale academic or commercial projects and/or industry environment </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">4. Knowledge and experience of Software development best practices </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">5. Experience of Container technologies such as Docker, Podman, K8s </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">6. Data engineering in large scale and heterogeneous data spaces. </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">7. Knowledge or interest in Natural language processing with an interest in application of LLMs to big biomedical data </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">8. Knowledge of machine learning / deep learning with an interest in the application to electronic patient records </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\"><strong>Desirable criteria</strong></p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">1. Awareness of Biomedical ontologies </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">2. Knowledge and experience of web application development such as (VueJS, React, Angular) </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">3. Research Project application experience and planning </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">4. Information retrieval, data analytics and/or text mining on Electronic Health Records and biomedical literature </p>\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: san-serif;\">5. 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