Senior Project Scientist

The Hampton Roads Biomedical Research Consortium (HRBRC) at Old Dominion University is seeking candidates for three Senior Project Scientist (full-time, 12 month) positions. This position conducts and supervises basic and applied biomedical, digital population health, public health, cybersecurity, and information technology engineering research initiatives. This position may serve as principal investigator or co-principal investigator for sponsored research projects and is responsible for the proper completion of statements of work under delivery orders or contracts. Other key areas of responsibility include:

• The establishment, operation, maintenance, and governance of physical and cloud-based data lakes for healthcare, digital population health, and other related disciplines.
• Lead data modeling, simulation, analysis, and visualization research teams by creating the research team group, setting milestones and deliverable dates, and ensuring that the team works efficiently and effectively as a cohesive unit.
• Prepare monthly status reports on research projects for submission to government, academic and industry sponsors by providing status updates on milestones, deliverables, actions items and potential areas of concern.
• Conduct In-progress review (IPR) meetings with government, academic and industry sponsors by scheduling the meetings, sending meeting announcements, setting meeting agenda, developing the presentations, and facilitating the meeting.
• Maintain consistent familiarity with software and hardware tools as they relate to both data lake infrastructures and modeling, simulation, analysis, and visualization applications by attending conferences and other training seminars.
• Conduct, collaborate and participate in the development of future projects with regional, state, and national partners in academia, medicine, industry, and government.
• Develop and maintain computer software and hardware skills aligned with best practices for physical and cloud-based data lake security, maintenance, operation, support, and government.
• Develop and participate in activities that support the broader research community by providing instruction and conducting training (such as outreach events, community and entrepreneurial ecosystem activities, and STEM-related events).