CareerPlan

Faculty Position - Department of Computational Biology

Memphis, TNFull-time2026-06-15 → 2026-11-11

Core

Develop next-generation omics platforms and AI foundation models for pediatric precision medicine, including RNA biology, CRISPR functional genomics, single-cell/spatial omics, and multimodal tissue/cell modeling.

Role type

Faculty (Assistant/Associate/Full Member) in Computational Biology

Builds

Novel computational methods, assay–algorithm co-designed tools, and trustworthy AI systems for clinical genomics and pathology.

Domain

Biomedical research / Pediatric oncology / Computational biology

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Assay–algorithm co-design, foundation model development, multimodal learning, clinical informatics pipelines, trustworthy AI (calibration, uncertainty monitoring), LLM-driven agentic systems

Preferred skills

Experience with regulatory genomics, computational pathology (WSI modeling), clinical NLP, high-performance computing

Technologies

CRISPRi/a, Perturb seq, single-cell omics, spatial omics, metabolomics, immunopeptidomics, WSI, EHR, LLMs

Responsibilities

Pioneer assay–algorithm co-design, lead reproducible and open science initiatives, build foundation models spanning DNA/RNA/protein/imaging/spatial/EHR data, develop agentic AI tools for automated analysis or experiment planning

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC (Faculty level)