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Build a Feature Store Backbone for a Healthtech ML Team
You receive synthetic wearable telemetry (heart rate, accelerometer, sleep stages) for around 5,000 patients across 90 days, plus the existing scattered feature scripts from the…
- Feature Engineering
- Data Modeling
- Python
Data Engineering and Big Data Systems - CodeIntermediateNew
Build an Anomaly-Detection Pipeline for Pharma Cold-Chain Logistics
You receive 18 months of shipment telemetry (around 60,000 shipments, around 12 million sensor readings) plus a hand-labeled set of 1,200 incidents (mix of true excursions, sens…
- Anomaly Detection
- Feature Engineering
- Time Series
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Simulate Hospital Bed Allocation for a Healthtech Decision Support Pilot
You receive 12 months of anonymized admissions and discharges data plus ward layouts (medicine, surgery, ICU, geriatrics) and a small set of clinical transfer rules. Build a dis…
- Discrete Event Simulation
- Simpy
- Policy Comparison
Decision Support Systems and Decision Analysis - CodeIntermediateNew
Train a VAE for Synthetic Tabular Data at a Healthtech Startup
You receive a synthetic-but-realistic clinical-trial table (around 50,000 patients, 35 columns, mixed continuous and categorical). Train a tabular VAE (or TVAE/CTGAN as alternat…
- Vae
- Tabular Generation
- Synthetic Data
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Segment Cells from Microscopy Images for a Pharma-AI Discovery Lab
You receive 3,500 microscopy images with pixel-level cell masks plus a 200-image hold-out set re-annotated by two biologists for inter-annotator agreement. Train a U-Net or SegF…
- Semantic Segmentation
- U Net
- Pytorch
Deep Learning for Computer Vision - CodeIntermediateNew
Train a Sequence Model for Wearable-Telemetry Sleep Staging at a Healthtech
You receive 220 nights of wearable telemetry from 60 subjects with PSG ground-truth labels. Train three sequence models: an LSTM baseline, a 1D-CNN+GRU hybrid, and a small trans…
- Sequence Models
- Lstm
- Transformers
Deep Learning - ResearchIntermediateNew
Build Saliency-Map Explanations for Dermatology Triage
You receive a trained CNN (ResNet-50 backbone, 7-class lesion classifier) and a 1,000-image held-out test set with dermatologist labels. Implement Integrated Gradients, GradCAM,…
- Saliency Maps
- Integrated Gradients
- Gradcam
Explainable and Interpretable AI - DesignIntermediateNew
Build an OWL Ontology for a Pharma R&D Knowledge Base
You receive a CSV-form starter knowledge base (around 4,000 compounds, 600 targets, 1,200 assays) and a list of 12 competency questions the scientists currently can't answer wit…
- Ontology Design
- Owl
- Knowledge Representation
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Evaluate VAEs vs. Diffusion for Synthetic Tabular-Data Generation
You receive a real labeled dataset (around 18,000 anonymized patient records, 32 features, binary outcome) and the team's existing VAE baseline. Train a tabular diffusion model …
- Tabular Diffusion
- Vae
- Synthetic Data
Generative AI - CodeIntermediateNew
De-Identify Patient Images for a Pharma Research Pipeline
You receive 500 internal benchmark images (already cleared for use), each labelled with bounding boxes around face/tattoo/jewelry regions. Build a pipeline that detects these re…
- Image De Identification
- Object Detection
- Privacy Preserving Vision
Image Processing and Computational Imaging - CodeIntermediateNew
Train a Domain-Specific Reranker for a Legal-Tech Search Box
You receive 20,000 (query, document, relevance-label) triples from the firm's contract corpus. Fine-tune a small cross-encoder (e.g., ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2 or BAAI/bge-reranker…
- Cross Encoder Reranker
- Fine Tuning
- Ir Evaluation
Information Retrieval and Search - CodeIntermediateNew
Wire a Knowledge Graph into a Pharma RAG Assistant
You receive: 100 internal benchmark questions with reference answers; a 50,000-document anonymized RAG index; a curated drug-target-disease KG (~80,000 triples) loaded into a tr…
- Kg Grounded RAG
- Sparql
- Entity Linking
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Mine Health-Forum Posts for Symptom Trend Signals
You receive 6 months of crawled public posts (~400,000 posts, already cleaned of usernames) and access to a UMLS API for normalisation. Build a pipeline that does (1) symptom ex…
- Text Mining
- Biomedical NLP
- Umls Normalization
Linguistic Engineering and Language Technologies - ResearchIntermediateNew
Explore the Bias-Variance Trade-off on a Tabular Healthcare Cohort
You receive a 90,000-patient anonymized de-identified tabular dataset (demographics, labs, claims-derived features) and a binary 12-month-readmission outcome. Pick three model f…
- Bias Variance Tradeoff
- Regularization
- Model Selection
Machine Learning - ResearchIntermediateNew
Multi-Task Learning for a Healthtech Triage Model
You receive 40,000 anonymized de-identified intake-form records with two labels: urgency tier (4 classes) and routed sub-specialty (12 classes). Train (1) two independent classi…
- Multi Task Learning
- Transfer Learning
- Transformer
Meta-Learning, Transfer Learning, and Multi-Task Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a 30-Day Readmission Risk Model on De-Identified EHR Data
You receive a curated MIMIC-style de-identified EHR cohort (about 28,000 admissions, demographics, comorbidities, labs, prior-admission counts) with 30-day readmission labels. T…
- Ehr Modeling
- Risk Stratification
- Model Calibration
Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biomedicine - ResearchIntermediateNew
Disease-Progression Modelling for a Neurodegeneration Biotech
You receive a curated longitudinal Parkinson's cohort (about 1,200 patients, 4-12 visits each, MDS-UPDRS sub-scores, cognitive assessments, demographics). Fit (1) a linear mixed…
- Disease Progression Modeling
- Mixed Effects Models
- State Space Models
Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biomedicine - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Chest-X-Ray Deployment Audit Across Hospital Sites
You receive (1) a vendor-supplied multi-label chest-X-ray classifier, (2) the current single-site held-out evaluation set, (3) a 12,000-image multi-site evaluation set with 14-f…
- Medical Imaging
- Classification
- Model Evaluation
Machine Learning for Imaging and Medical Image Analysis - CodeIntermediateNew
Automate Retraining with a Drift-Triggered MLflow Pipeline
Stand up the pipeline end to end with the team's existing stack (MLflow tracking + model registry, Airflow orchestration). Wire Evidently to compute weekly drift; when drift cro…
- Mlflow
- Airflow
- Data Drift Detection
ML Engineering and Production ML - CodeIntermediateNew
Train a Multimodal Classifier for Medical Triage
Pick a fusion architecture (early fusion via cross-attention, late fusion via score combination, or a unified multimodal encoder like FLAVA/CoCa). Train on the 14,000 pairs with…
- Multimodal Fusion
- Cross Attention
- Pytorch
Multimodal Machine Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Parse and Structure Clinical Discharge Summaries
Combine traditional NLP (section segmentation, sentence parsing) with LLM extraction (small open model + structured-output enforcement). Build the pipeline so every extracted fi…
- Structured Extraction
- Clinical NLP
- Parsing
Natural Language Processing - CodeIntermediateNew
Train a Differentially Private Classifier on Medical Records
Use Opacus (PyTorch DP-SGD library). Train a tabular classifier (small MLP + gradient-boosted features) with DP-SGD at the agreed epsilon/delta. Run an accuracy-vs-privacy front…
- Differential Privacy
- Dp Sgd
- Opacus
Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Model Patient Pathways with a Hidden Markov Model
You receive de-identified monthly summaries for 8,000 diabetic patients, each row coding the count of primary-care visits, specialist visits, ER visits, new medications, and HbA…
- Hidden Markov Models
- Em Algorithm
- Time Series Modeling
Probabilistic Graphical Models - CodeIntermediateNew
Extractive QA on Clinical Trial Protocols
You receive 500 anonymized protocol PDFs (already OCR-ed to text) and 1,200 labeled question-answer pairs where each answer is an exact text span. Build an extractive QA system:…
- Extractive Qa
- Reading Comprehension
- Model Finetuning
Question Answering and Conversational Systems
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