Assistant Scientist - AI-Enabled Immune Digital Twin Workflows, Data Assimilation, and Ensemble Updating

Indiana University
Indiana University

Software Engineering, Data Science

USD 100k-100k / year

Posted on Oct 14, 2026

Posting Details

Position Details
Title Assistant Scientist - AI-Enabled Immune Digital Twin Workflows, Data Assimilation, and Ensemble Updating
Appointment Status Non-Tenure Track
Department IU Bloomington Intelligent Systems Engineering
Location Bloomington
Position Summary
Your primary duties will be to build reproducible, testable, sequential data-assimilating digital twin workflows under the direction of Dr. James A. Glazier. You will implement patient-specific forecasting and rebasing pipelines, design anomaly-detection and residual-monitoring logic, infer unobserved state parameters, manage complex model ensemble interfaces, and coordinate computational infrastructure with national consortium collaborators.

60% Digital Twin Workflows & Data Assimilation: Develop Python workflows for short-horizon forecasting and patient-specific rebasing; implement data-assimilation methods (Kalman/Bayesian updating); design anomaly detection and missing-information inference logic.

40% Software Engineering & Integration: Build reproducible computational packages(CI/CD, containers, testing); manage ensemble interfaces; integrate workflows with external consortium platforms (Vivarium, QSP); write technical publications.
Basic Qualifications
Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree in quantitative, computational, or biomedical discipline.

Programming proficiency in Python, Julia, R, or MATLAB; background in mechanistic modeling (ODE/dynamical systems, QSP, or agent-based); familiarity with inflammation, cytokine signaling, sepsis, or critical care biology.

One year of successful postdoctoral research experience.
Department Contact for Questions
Please contact Professor James Glazier at glazier@iu.edu with questions regarding the position.
Additional Qualifications
Salary and Rank 100,000/Assistant Scientist
Special Instructions
For Best Consideration Date 11/02/2026
Expected Start Date
Posting Number IU-101733-2026

Supplemental Questions

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  1. * Have you previously been employed with IU?
    • Yes
    • No

Applicant Documents

Required Documents
  1. Curriculum Vitae
  2. Letter of Application
  3. List Of References
Optional Documents
  1. Letter of Reference 1
  2. Letter of Reference 2
  3. Letter of Reference 3