MSc Positions

If you are already a MSc student at Pitt, and you would like to either do your Capstone Project with us or join our Pitt HexAI Research Laboratory, then please email Dr. Ahmad P. Tafti your CV and a brief description of your research interests.

PhD Positions

While we are always looking for self-motivated PhD students with strong command of AI and medical image analysis, we are recruiting PhD students basically from our graduate programs at the University of Pittsburgh. Example includes Intelligent Systems Program, SHRS, School of Computing and Information. Thus, you please email us after you get admitted at our graduate programs.

Postdocs and Visiting Scholars

If you are interested in joining our research laboratory as a postdoc or visiting scholar, please email Dr. Ahmad P. Tafti your CV, a letter of research interests, and funding sources for visiting scholar positions.

For your information, we are now receiving several emails in a weekly-basis. If you do not hear from us in a week, then that somehow means we decide not to move forward. We are really sorry! Also, all information/CV you send us will be kept private.

Potential Benefits

Potential benefits to join the Pitt HexAI Research Laboratory include but not limited to:

  • Working with world-class leaders in health data science research and a multidisciplinary team of computer scientists, physicians, surgeons, health informaticians, and statisticians.
  • Developing mentoring relationships with faculty member(s) and scientists.
  • Working on real-world, clinically significant, and highly practical AI applications.
  • Networking with professional communities in the healthcare domain and leveraging real clinical data.
  • Participating in educational/training opportunities provided frequently by the research laboratory.
  • Access to high-performance computational resources.

Current Openings

  • Sep. 2022: Two hourly-basis graduate research internship positions. Please contact Prof. Tafti if you are interested. -- We are now done with these positions!
  • Sep. 2022: We've received stipend fundings for two-three 10-hours/week undergraduate/graduate research assistants. Please contact Prof. Tafti if you are interested. -- We are now done with these positions!