PhD Position in Medical AI and Foundation Models

at  ETH Zrich

100%, BASEL, FIXED-TERM

We, the research group led by Michael Moor, are looking to fill a PhD position focusing on medical AI and medical foundation models. We are looking for an ambitious candidate eager to conduct groundbreaking research in medical AI. Our goal is to advance the capability, reliability, and safety of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), Vision Language Models (VLMs), and text-only LLMs across various medical and biomedical contexts. The successful candidate will join a cutting-edge research group working on projects that include but are not limited to clinical retrieval systems, representation learning models, early warning systems, and interactive multimodal chat applications.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Design, develop (pre-train, SFT, and preference-align) and benchmark new medical foundation models across different data modalities
• Conduct research on retrieval augmentation strategies and its integration into explainable clinical decision support systems
• Develop novel methods to address model hallucinations, and the reliability problem of LLMs and MLLMs, specialized for high-stakes domains such as healthcare
• Develop new strategies to encapsulate and organize medical knowledge and to make it accessible to medical AI systems
• Publish research findings in top-tier machine learning conferences as well as top-tier biomedical and general scientific journals (depening on project)
• Participate in academic collaborations within ETH Zurich, across Swiss institutions as well as with leading international collaboration partners

Please refer the Job description for details