INTERNSHIP - ADVANCED DATA ANALYTICS OF HEALTHCARE RECORDS
- Trento
- Formazione
- Full time
In this context, the Intelligent Digital Agents Unit focuses on the study and development of flexible technologies and prototypes of digital assistants in the sector of prevention and mental well-being.
More information about IDA at .Planned activities
The IDA Unit of the Digital Health and Well Being Center is looking for a motivated student (Bachelor’s, third year or higher, or Master’s level) with an interest in data analysis, particularly involving administrative healthcare data. The ideal candidate is a proactive and dynamic young person with good organizational and interpersonal skills, with a propensity for teamwork, motivated to undertake a training experience in an international context.
The intern will work with the Research Unit staff to support the following activities related to an administrative healthcare dataset:
- Data cleaning, transformation, visualization using SQL and Python/R.
- Exploratory analysis of healthcare service utilization.
- Apply clustering algorithms (e.g. K-Means, DBSCAN) to cluster patients based on service utilization, and evaluate quality of clusters.
- Model sequence of a patient healthcare events using techniques such as recurrent neural networks (RNN) to predict next likely service.
- Develop predictive models for hospital readmission risk using patient history, and evaluate different approaches such as logistic regression, random forest, gradient boosting.
- Currently enrolled in at least 3rd year of Bachelor’s program or pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field. Familiarity with the healthcare domain is a plus, but not required.
- Working knowledge of SQL and at least one of the following programming languages: Python or R.
- Proficiency in English, as the internship will be conducted in English.
- Good relational and teamwork skills.
- Good organizational skills and analytical thinking.
- Internship start date: as soon as the suitable candidate is found
- Internship experience duration: 4 months
- The internship experience will take place at the FBK facilities in Povo
- We offer support in finding accommodation at affiliated facilities, in the case of off-site candidates
- We offer the possibility to use the internal canteen service
- Possible recognition of participation allowance
- Possibility of linking the internship with bachelor or master thesis
All interested parties are asked to fill out the online form by clicking on "Apply Online" in the "Internship opportunities" section, attaching the following documents in PDF format:
- curriculum vitae
- motivational letter