💼 Full-Time Position

Postdoctoral Research Associate

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University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill
📍 NC-Chapel-Hill, United States, United States
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Location
NC-Chapel-Hill, United States
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Posted
June 24, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Vacancy ID: PDS004832

Position Summary/Description:
The Zikry Lab at UNC -Chapel Hill is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join our group at the intersection of statistical methodology, machine learning, and biomedical data science. Our research develops rigorous and interpretable methods for high-dimensional biomedical data, with applications spanning cancer genomics, neuroscience, and precision medicine. The postdoctoral fellow will join a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment within the School of Data and Information Sciences, with opportunities to work with researchers across the UNC scientific community in units such as the Computational Medicine Program and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The postdoctoral fellow will play a central role in advancing new statistical and machine learning methodology. Areas of focus include (but are not limited to):
* Clustering and unsupervised learning
* Dimension reduction an...