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Student Assistant – AI for Veterinary Medicine

Apply now(opens in a new window) Job No: 511579
Division/Organization: School of Veterinary Medicine
Department: Surgical Sciences
Job Type: UW Student Jobs
Remote Eligbility: Not Remote
Location: VETERINARY MEDICINE BUILDING
Salary/Wage Range or Lump Sum: $XX.XX
Job Categories: Critical Thinking/Problem Solving, Digital Technology, Healthcare and Health Sciences, Information Technology and Computers, STEM, Data Analysis

Department Overview:

 The Brundage Lab is a computational research lab in the Department of Surgical Sciences at the UW–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. The lab develops AI and machine learning methods for veterinary and animal informatics, with a focus on multimodal data and agentic systems that can autonomously support and accelerate research and clinical workflows. Projects span medical imaging, clinical language models, genomic representation learning. Students join a modern computing environment and gain hands-on experience applying frontier AI methods to real problems in animal health.

Students will contribute to active projects spanning representation learning, medical imaging, and clinical prediction. No prior veterinary background is required—curiosity, coding aptitude, and reliability matter most.

Anticipated Start Date:

 07/01/2026

Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):

  

Remote Work Eligibility Detail:

Not Remote

 

Anticipated Hours Per Week:

 Minimum: 10 Maximum: 25

Schedule:

 10–15 hours/week; flexible hours arranged around class schedules.

Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:

 Minimum: 15.00

Number of Positions:

 2

Qualifications:

 Coursework or demonstrated experience in programming (Python preferred). Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently.
Preferred: Experience with data analysis, machine learning libraries (PyTorch, scikit-learn), version control (Git), or working in a Linux/command-line environment. Interest in biomedical, genomic, or veterinary applications of AI. Coursework in statistics, biology, computer science, or a related field.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Proficiency or willingness to learn Python and standard scientific computing tools.
Ability to follow documentation, write clean and reproducible code, and track work systematically.
Clear written and verbal communication for lab meetings and documentation.
Capacity to manage time across multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
Collaborative mindset and comfort asking questions in a team research setting.

Position Summary/Job Duties:

The student will support one or more active lab projects under the direction of the PI. Depending on skills and interests, duties may include: writing and testing Python code for data processing and analysis; preparing, cleaning, and annotating datasets (genomic, imaging, or clinical text); running and documenting computational experiments on lab and campus HPC resources; reviewing literature and summarizing findings; assisting with data visualization and figure preparation; and contributing to documentation and, where appropriate, manuscripts. Students will participate in regular lab meetings and receive mentorship in research methods and scientific computing.

Physical Demands:

Work involves prolonged periods of sitting and working at a computer.

Institutional Statements:

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu

Accommodation Statement:

If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/
 
 

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