Research Assistant (AI/Medicine/Data Analytics)

About This Role

A Research Assistant (RA) role at NTU's Division of Information Technology and Operations Management seeks candidates with a degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or related fields. The position requires experience in healthcare research settings, including data preparation, cleaning, and analysis using

Responsibilities

• Conduct on-site research coordination and data preparation in healthcare settings.
• Acquire, integrate, and manage multi-source datasets including electronic health records and administrative databases.
• Perform data cleaning, preprocessing, and quality assurance to ensure structured and suitable datasets for statistical analysis.
• Develop and implement data analysis pipelines using Python and SQL to process structured and unstructured medical data.
• Apply advanced analytical techniques, including machine learning and natural language processing, to extract insights from healthcare datasets.
• Collaborate with hospitals and institutional partners to facilitate data access for research implementation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Information Systems, or Biomedical Informatics.
• Master's Degree is an advantage for this position.
• Relevant experience in data analytics or research support, preferably in healthcare or digital health environments.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL with demonstrated ability to process large datasets.
• Experience working with unstructured data, including text, image, or audio data, and familiarity with NLP techniques.
• Knowledge of data preprocessing, feature engineering, and machine learning workflows for empirical research.