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Research Specialist at University of Chicago | LAYIQ

Designs, implements, and trains components of the foundation-model architecture, including modality-specific encoders, cross-modal fusion, acquisition-aware conditioning, and prediction heads.
Develops and applies self-supervised training objectives (e.g., masked signal modeling, cross-modal contrastive learning) and knowledge-distillation strategies from existing foundation models.
Curates, preprocesses, and harmonizes multimodal data (structural and functional MRI, PET, EEG, and clinical/phenotypic measures) from established repositories such as ADNI, OASIS-3, NACC, and BSNIP, including acquisition-metadata handling and cross-site harmonization.
Builds and runs rigorous benchmarking evaluations comparing the model against disease-specific, single-modality, and existing foundation-model baselines, including pre-specified metrics, ablation studies, and cross-cohort generalization tests.
Implements and evaluates zero-shot and few-shot transfer of the model across brain conditions (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, ADHD) and characterizes shared computational signatures.
Develops AI/ML methods for particle physics and the modeling of physical systems, including deep-learning and generative AI approaches to reconstruction, event classification, simulation and surrogate modeling, and analysis of large-scale detector and experimental data.
Adapts and transfers modeling approaches between the particle-physics and brain-health domains, contributing to the group’s cross-domain foundation-model methodology.
Contributes to open, reproducible research outputs, including the FAIR benchmark, versioned code releases, containerized pipelines, model cards, and documentation.
Trains and mentors graduate and undergraduate students in AI/ML methods, data pipelines, and reproducible-research practices.
Maintains technical and administrative support for the research project.
Analyzes and maintains data. Conducts literature reviews. Assists with preparation of reports, manuscripts, and other documents.
Installs, sets up, and performs experiments and computational workflows, interacting with students and other laboratory staff under the direction of the principal investigator.
Performs other related work as needed.

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