[CPM-SPIRE-L] Postdoc position at UGR: Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship in Automation of Systematic Reviews

[Juan Manuel Fernández Luna]

The University of Granada, Spain, and more specifically its Department 
of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence offers a Marie 
Skłodowska-Curie individual European fellowship on the automation of 
systematic reviews using Artificial Intelligence.

Published biomedical research needs to be synthesised for health 
practitioners. This currently takes too long to contemporaneously 
enhance health care quality because the methods of evidence synthesis 
that bring together published studies to underpin guidance for practice 
have well recognised, serious delays taking on average 5 staff members 
over 12 months to complete a review. We postulate that artificial 
intelligence (AI) can assist in evidence synthesis, improving the 
timeliness of guidelines. The objective of this project is, using beyond 
state-of-the-art AI methodology, develop an integrated system using 
modern AI technologies to support the complete process of systematic 
reviews. We will validate the performance the AI-based system 
quantifying its accuracy, precision, heterogeneity, bias and 
generalizability compared to a standard meta-analysis. We wish to form 
an international consortium of well-established researchers with 
individually distinctive track records in computer science, systematic 
review, study quality assessment, meta-analysis, evidence grading, 
public health, cardiometabolic research, and various forms of evidence 
synthesis including both randomized and real-world data. This will allow 
the delivery of a much-needed, exciting, ground breaking, high-quality 
and impactful project. Our output will help accelerate the process of 
meta-analyses, evidence synthesis and transfer of research into 
guidelines for improving the quality of health care.

So we are looking for an experienced researcher with a PhD in Computer 
Science, with a strong background in Information Retrieval, Machine 
Learning, Natural Language Processing and Text Mining to be integrated 
in a friendly and strong research group. She/he will collaborate with a 
multidisciplinary team in order to automating several of the stages of 
systematic reviews, where all these previously disciplines must be involved.

The candidate will work and live at the beautiful city of Granada, at 
southern Spain.

Those interested candidates should send a letter of interest and 
presentation (including the reasons why she/he would be interested in 
this position, her/his possible contributions to the research and 
skills) to Juan Manuel Fernández Luna (jmfluna <at> decsai.ugr.es) in 
addition to her/him CV.

After a first selection from all the CVs, the selected candidate will 
work with the members of the research team to elaborate a successful 
proposal.

More information about the fellowship is in the following link:

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting/msca-if-joint-application-university-granada-department-computer-science-and-2

And about the call in this one:

*https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/actions/individual-fellowships_en
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Juan M. Fernández Luna
Department of Computer Science and Artificial
University of Granada, Spain.


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