Research Assistant (AI/Medicine/Data Analytics)

About the role

The Division of Information Technology and Operations Management at Nanyang Business School is looking for a Research Assistant to join a series of research projects set in healthcare settings. The role focuses on supporting the research with data preparation, cleaning and analysis.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate on-site research and prepare data in healthcare settings, working with hospitals, clinics and institutional partners to secure data access.
• Acquire, integrate and manage multi-source datasets such as electronic health records, system logs, survey data and administrative data.
• Clean, preprocess and quality-check large datasets so they are structured, anonymized and ready for statistical and machine learning analysis.
• Build and run data analysis pipelines in Python and SQL for structured and unstructured data such as text, medical images and voice records.
• Apply machine learning and natural language processing to extract insights from healthcare data.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Information Systems, Biomedical Informatics or a related quantitative discipline; a Master's degree is an advantage.
• Experience in data analytics or research support, preferably in healthcare, digital health or large-scale data environments.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including data cleaning, exploratory data analysis and statistical modeling.
• Good written and verbal communication, and strong organization and teamwork skills.

Required skills

• Python and SQL, with proven ability to handle large datasets.
• Experience with unstructured data (text, images, audio) and techniques such as NLP, computer vision or speech processing.
• Data preprocessing, feature engineering and machine learning workflows.