Postdoc @ Yahoo! Research (NYC)
QUANTITATIVE / COMPUTATIONAL POSTDOC AT YAHOO RESEARCH IN NEW YORK CITY
The Human Social Dynamics Group in Yahoo! Research is seeking highly qualified candidates with strong quantitative and computational skills for a post-doctoral research scientist position. The successful candidate will contribute to the HSD group’s research agenda, and also work on applied problems of relevance to Yahoo! consumer and advertising products. Candidates must have completed (or be able to complete before starting) a PhD, preferably but not necessarily in CS/IS, statistics, or in quantitative social science and must be skilled programmers.
Desired skills include but are not limited to:
* Mining web data
* Statistical analysis of large data sets
* Building 3rd party apps (Open Mail, Facebook)
* Designing, building, and running web-based “virtual lab” experiments
* Designing, building, and running web-based field experiments
Application Instructions
Applications, including a CV and names/addresses of three referees, should be emailed to:
Duncan Watts, djw at yahoo-inc.com
For more information on HSD personnel and publications, see
http://research.yahoo.com/Duncan_Watts
http://research.yahoo.com/Sharad_Goel
http://research.yahoo.com/Dan_Goldstein
http://research.yahoo.com/Jake_Hofman
http://research.yahoo.com/Siddharth_Suri
