NYU Grossman School of Medicine offers a two-year, National Institutes of Health–funded Developmental Brain and Computer Science Fellowship at the Child Study Center, part of Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone.

Our postdoctoral fellowship, offered through the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, is intended for candidates who have successfully completed an accredited doctoral program in computer science, neuroscience or a related field.

Those with experience and interest in applying computer science methodology to time-series data, MRI images, and behavioral (video) data are especially encouraged to apply.

We are a lab that examines developmental psychopathology—specifically mood disorders and cognitive control deficits, prenatal disease origins, infant mental health, and risk and protective mechanisms. Current projects in the lab examine longitudinal brain changes in pregnancy and how those relate both to the transition to parenthood and to the child’s brain developmental trajectory.

The research director is Moriah E. Thomason, PhD. This is not a clinical fellowship program.

Fellowship Training

We are interested in developing new algorithms using our unique datasets. Specifically, we seek to use multi-channel (temperature, heart rate, movement, etc) wearable data to predict maternal mental health, pregnancy outcomes and fetal/infant brain maturation. We also seek to predict child developmental psychopathology based on behavioral (video) data using computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies.

As a fellow, your responsibilities include the following:

• Supervising the development of novel AI methodologies in existing datasets
• Supervising personnel, including research assistants and student volunteers
• Ensuring that research data are stored and maintained in a uniform fashion and in compliance with all standards set by the university for human participant research
• Ensuring that research data and algorithms are securely stored
• Initiating and directing data quality assurance protocols and data sharing procedures
• Analyzing data, presenting at conferences, preparing manuscripts

Preferred qualifications include a background in computer vision, and in advanced timeseries analysis (e.g., temporal fusion transformers). Additional qualifications are computer programming experience and expertise in statistics.

The position includes ample support from research assistants, collaborations with graduate students and faculty, and close collaboration with the primary investigator (PI). The PI is committed to providing fellows with mentorship opportunities and support in establishing the skills needed to direct an independent research program or to move to industry. This includes supporting the submission and publication of research papers, the presentation of research at conferences, and the writing of new grant proposals as a lead investigator–trainee, if desired (e.g., National Research Service Award, K01, K99). The starting salary range is $63,000 to $77,000 per year.

How to Apply

Applicants should submit a cover letter, the names and contact information for three references, and a CV as a single PDF with the subject line “Postdoctoral Fellowship Applicant” to Maya Ruiz at maya.ruiz@nyulangone.org.