Description
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Faculty Position
Division of Health Informatics and Artificial Intelligence
Department of Population Health Sciences
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City
https://phs.weill.cornell.edu/
The Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) in New York City (NYC) is actively recruiting a tenure-track faculty member (Assistant Professor rank) in health informatics and artificial intelligence. Areas of research expertise and training include:
- Human factors, computer-human interactions and visualization techniques on AI for biomedicine.
- Interpretability, explainability and actionability of biomedical AI models.
- Clinical decision support and implementation science for clinical AI.
The faculty member would join an outstanding and collaborative department, and will be appointed in the Division of Health Informatics and Artificial Intelligence which is a multi-disciplinary research division with expertise in artificial intelligence/machine learning, mobile and digital health, patient-reported outcomes, clinical imaging, and natural language processing. Faculty in this division have multiple opportunities for collaboration with clinical researchers at WCM, as well as partner institutions New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the Hospital for Special Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Cornell Tech, which is Cornell’s NYC-based engineering campus.
The Department of Population Health Sciences has significant data resources including but not limited to: 1) the EHR from the INSIGHT Clinical Research Network, a unique collaboration of more than 20 New York City-area medical institutions and organizations funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI); 2) PCORnet-RECOVER EHR, a collaboration among clinical research networks, including INSIGHT, that represents 41 institutions across the nation and is funded as part of the NIH Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) initiative; and 3) Inovalon, which is a national, multi-payer claims database that includes ~226 million unique individuals across Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and commercial plans, with data sourced directly from more than 160 payers. We also established the new WCM Data Coordination Center where we will host data from large amounts of clinical trials and make innovations. In addition, we have access to the state-of-the-art computing environments at WCM and Cornell University, such as the Scientific Computing Unit (SCU), where data is served to users via a Mellanox HDR Infiniband network infrastructure with uplinks at 200GBs. Its analytical systems include 128 graphics processing units (GPUs) using a variety of NVIDIA P100, V100 and A100 and A40 cards along with 3424 total traditional CPUs. We are an active member of the New York State Empire AI consortium, where our faculty have access to the 144 H100 GPUs in its current “Alpha” machine. The computing power will be tripled in its “Beta” version that will be released later this year.
The successful applicant will have a Ph.D., M.D./Ph.D., or equivalent in health informatics, biomedical informatics, computer science, information science or a related field. The applicant will have a record of significant research accomplishments, including developing and sustaining extramural funding, and will demonstrate a strong ability to mentor students, post-doctoral researchers, and junior faculty members. The successful candidate will also have experience in curriculum development, teaching, and scholarship activities in health informatics and AI. The candidate should have strong communication skills, an established record of interdisciplinary work, and be ready to foster collaborative opportunities in research, education, service, and innovation, including engaging with industry partners and entrepreneurship. The successful candidate will also have an opportunity to become a member of the newly established WCM Institute of AI for digital health (AIDH) and work closely with other members in the institute.
Cornell is an equal opportunity employer. For more information, please refer to https://hr.cornell.edu/about/workplace-rights/equal-education-and-employment
Interested applicants should submit a letter of interest highlighting their research and teaching interests, practical experience and career goals in health informatics, curriculum vitae, and names of three professional references to: phs_admin@med.cornell.edu by December 31, 2025. You may provide information about your commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity as it pertains to your research, mentorship, service, and/or educational efforts in your cover letter. This is optional and you do not need to disclose any aspect of your identity.
Salary established below per annum commensurate with qualifications and experience:
Assistant Professor: $151,322-$175,534
Weill Cornell Medicine provides the above salary range in compliance with the New York City law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range listed is for fulltime employment not including bonuses, clinical incentive compensation, or benefits. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors including but not limited to internal equity, specialty, training, and hospital/community needs.
The above salary range for New York City based roles represents WCM’s good faith and reasonable estimate of possible compensation at the time of posting.
