Computational Epidemiologist

**Location**: Bangalore

**Type**:Full-time

**Overview of the role**:
ARTPARK’s One-Health team tackles interconnected challenges in human, animal, and environmental health through collaborative and interdisciplinary efforts.

Working with city, state, and national governments, we support data-driven public health responses to endemic, epidemic, and climate-related threats through innovative solutions leveraging statistical and AI/ML-based approaches.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts in disease modelling, climate-health systems, engineering, and public health, both nationally and internationally, in a dynamic and highly motivated environment.

**Responsibilities**:
Integrate and organize heath and related data from multiple sources into a form usable by computational models

Implement statistical approaches as well as contribute to the development of robust and scalable models for the goals identified in the project

Consolidate findings and prepare reports to effectively communicate insights with engineers and public health officials

Work closely with data and engineering teams to develop data pipelines, data visualizations and the integration of these visualizations into a dashboard

**Requirements**:
Bachelors in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related quantitative scientific discipline. A master's degree is preferred.

Comfort with applied and computational mathematics, partial differential equations and numerical tools for them, e.g the use of MATLAB or in general reasonable programming skills in Python (e.g. the numerical solution of differential equations)

Grasp of how general mathematical models function

Experience in handling large data sets

Experience in looking at the scientific literature, e.g. in a project in ecology

Prior knowledge of computational/statistical methods/epidemiological concepts is desirable.

A willingness to learn and the ability to implement what is learnt

ARTPARK at IISc drives impact through innovations in AI & Robotics, by harnessing the best of research/academia, startups/industry, and government/nonprofits.

Our pioneering platform initiatives in language data & AI and health data & AI are driving national-scale impact with stakeholders such as MeitY’s Bhashini, Office of PSA, ICMR, States and Cities. At ARTPARK, you will work with the best researchers in the country and around the world in a strong data-driven environment and have the opportunity to address systemic issues and implement solutions.

These platforms are in pursuit of our vision - AI for All.