[DMANET] PhD Position on Safe AI for Organ Allocation at Eurotransplant (Eindhoven University of Technology)

We are looking for a strong, motivated PhD-student with an analytical, algorithmic background who is interested in pursuing a PhD-project devoted to the allocation of donor organs to patients. The goal of this project is to is to design and evaluate organ allocation mechanisms, with a particular focus on the efficiency and fairness of Eurotransplant's liver allocation system.
The project is in cooperation with, and partially funded by, Eurotransplant. The project has a large applied component, as results on Eurotransplant donor and patient populations can inform Eurotransplant policies.
The position is for a period of 4 years at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. The student's working locations will be at Eindhoven University where the PhD candidate will be supervised by experts in combinatorial optimization, machine learning and fairness-awareness in algorithmic decision support, and the Eurotransplant headquarters in Leiden, where access to the domain expertise and real-world data and its interpretation is accessible for the project team.
We are looking for a student with a strong background in at least one of the following subjects: statistics, machine learning, discrete optimization, operations research. A strong interest in the medical and health policy aspects of the project are a plus. An interest in both technical and socio-technical aspects of effective and fair organ allocation is encouraged.

Applications should be made through the following job posting, where additional information on job requirements is available: https://www.tue.nl/werken-bij-tue/vacatureoverzicht/phd-on-safe-ai-for-organ-allocation-at-eurotransplant

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