Bijan Najafi

UCLA’s Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology (CASIT), within the Department of Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine, is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to help advance AI and digital health innovation in a highly translational clinical environment. The position focuses on building intelligent health technologies that move beyond benchmarks and into real-world healthcare. The scholar will work with clinicians, engineers, researchers, and industry partners on projects that combine multimodal health data such as wearable and sensor streams, medical images and video, speech, human movement, physiological signals, and clinical information. Research themes include digital biomarkers, remote monitoring, precision health, clinical decision support, intelligent surgical systems, AI for brain and functional health, and digital interventions. The role spans methods such as computer vision, multimodal AI, machine learning, deep learning, foundation models, and agentic or generative AI, with an emphasis on clinically meaningful questions, prototype development, validation, and eventual real-world deployment. CASIT’s broader portfolio includes AI-enabled surgical and interventional systems, wearable sensing, wound monitoring, telehealth, healthy aging, and functional resilience. The postdoctoral scholar will join a multidisciplinary setting designed to support cross-domain collaboration and translational research that can be validated in practice and improve patient outcomes. Mentorship is provided by Dr. Bijan Najafi, Professor of Surgery and Research Director of CASIT, with opportunities to lead interdisciplinary projects, mentor trainees, and contribute to a growing research program at UCLA Health.

Postdoctoral opportunity in digital health and clinical research at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with UCLA-CASIT and UCLA Health. The position is focused on hands-on work across wearables , remote patient monitoring , clinical studies, patient recruitment, study coordination, data analysis, scientific publications, presentations, and grant writing. The research portfolio spans diabetic foot , mobility, aging , and Alzheimer’s disease , with projects conducted in hospitals and outpatient clinical settings. This opportunity is especially suitable for a recent PhD or MD graduate, a pre-residency candidate, or an early-career postdoctoral fellow seeking meaningful clinical research experience before the next career stage. The post emphasizes collaboration with clinicians, engineers, patients, and industry partners. Announced by Bijan Najafi , Professor and Research Director at UCLA-CASIT. No deadline, application portal, or funding package is specified in the post.