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 the 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 levels.
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
Specific responsibilities include to:
- script and program skills; proficiency with any of the tools will be plus (Java, Android, R, STATA, Python, Power BI, VS Code).
- develop machine learning models, including familiarity with techniques in clustering, classification, regression, optimization, recommendation, natural language processing, and others.
- understand data and analytical frameworks in health care industry
- be able to articulate research questions, form hypotheses, review and synthesize existing literature
- be able to work effectively with people at all levels in the organization
- be able to cope with multiple tasks with minimum guidance
- have understanding of current processes and provide automation and digitization
- be able to collect, manipulate, pre-process and analyze complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources and present insights using different visualization tools
- develop machine learning models, including familiarity with techniques in clustering, classification, regression, optimization, recommendation, natural language processing, and others.
