Title: Junior Research Scientist
Company Name: Global Public Health Research Foundation
Vacancy: 1
Age: Na
Job Location: Dhaka
Salary: --
Experience:
Published: 2025-11-23
Application Deadline: 2025-12-05
Education:
BSc or MSc in Computer Science & Engineering (or a very closely related field).
Research and publication experience (e.g., conference/journal paper, or thesis-based publication).
Programming & Tools >
Strong Python 3.x skills (clean, modular code).
Experience with Git and working in Linux + CLI environments.
Machine Learning / Deep Learning >
Hands-on experience training supervised models (classification/regression) using libraries such as scikit-learn.
Practical experience building and training neural networks in PyTorch (or TensorFlow/Keras).
Understanding of Computer Vision workflows (e.g., image classification, feature extraction, or similar CV tasks).
Understanding of NLP workflows (e.g., text preprocessing, tokenization, embeddings, or text classification).
Interest or prior exposure to multimodal vision–text approaches (e.g., combining image and text features in a single pipeline).
Data Handling (Tabular, Text & Image) >
Proficient with pandas and NumPy for loading, cleaning, and merging CSV files and performing basic feature engineering.
Experience preparing text datasets (cleaning, tokenization, simple feature representations).
Experience loading and preprocessing image datasets using tools such as PIL, OpenCV, or torchvision.
Language Skills
Fluent in spoken and written English.
Objective: To support the conduct of scientific research on public health issues within the strategic framework of GPHRF.
Job description:
The Research Assistant/Research Associate will:
Assist the Director/Research Scientist in the planning, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of data-driven public health research projects.
Assist in research projects related to machine learning and deep learning, including model development, training, and validation.
Collect, curate, manage, and preprocess datasets (e.g., tabular, text, image, or other health-related data) and ensure data quality and documentation.
Analyze and interpret quantitative data using appropriate statistical and ML methods, and summarize findings clearly.
Contribute to writing scientific publications, technical reports.
Collaborate closely with team members (researchers, data scientists, and public health professionals) on ongoing and new research initiatives, including brainstorming and knowledge dissemination.