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