Assistant Professor (AI / ML for Biology)

About Us

Atria University desires and enables research impact beyond publications. We operate without traditional departments (HoDs). Faculty are housed within Centers of Excellence (CoE), fostering deep, cross-disciplinary collaboration. This role will primarily be affiliated with the Bio-AI Hub / CoE.

Why this role

Help build India’s next wave of Bio-AI : genomic and protein foundation models, multi-omics modelling, generative design for enzymes and pathways, and AI-assisted DBTL loops with wet-lab partners. You’ll have real datasets, compute, and translational collaborations.

What you’ll do

• Lead research on Bio-AI foundation models (e.g., DNA FMs, protein LMs, generative design / diffusion for sequences / structures).
• Ship artifacts : open-source code, trained weights, datasets, and benchmarking pipelines; submit to top venues; file IP where appropriate.
• Collaborate intensively with faculty in the wet-lab / clinical CoEs to design unified, problem-driven interdisciplinary curricula and research projects (strain / enzyme design, microbiome, diagnostics, materials for bioenergy, etc.).
• Teach light, high-impact : 2–3 project-based, 4-credit sprints / year; mentor student teams on real problems.
• Win grants & lead consortia : craft proposals, coordinate multi-partner projects, and grow the Bio-AI Hub, explicitly ensuring student research teams are integrated into grant deliverables.

What will set you up for success (must-have)

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What we offer