The Center for Complexity in Business at the University of Maryland's
Robert H. Smith School of Business seeks applications for a
postdoctoral fellowship. The position will provide salary and
benefits for at least one year, but potentially longer contingent upon
performance and funding availability. Applications will be reviewed
starting immediately and will continue until the position is filled.
Candidates will be expected to work primarily on an NSF-funded
interdisciplinary project that examines the diffusion of information
and authority in social media. The candidate will be expected to
analyze large-scale data sets drawn from Twitter, blogs, and other
forms of social media, and develop innovative and new insights into
how individuals communicate and collaborate on social media.
We welcome applicants from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds
(e.g., sociology, computer science, information science, and business
and management science). Candidates will be expected to be able to
analyze large-scale data contained in a relational database.
Familiarity with a relational database, such as MySQL, and a
high-level analysis platform, such as R, Matlab or SPSS, is required.
Candidates who can demonstrate expertise in social network analysis,
computational social science, or machine / statistical learning will
be given priority. Programming expertise is also a plus.
The postdoctoral researcher will be working with an interdisciplinary
team of computer science and management science faculty members, and
will potentially become involved with work related to corporate
sponsors of the Center for Complexity. Fellows will have full access
to the resources of the Center, the Smith School and the University of
Maryland, which includes large-scale computing resources and
administrative support.
Candidates will be expected to have completed all the requirements for
the doctorate in their discipline by the time of the initial
appointment. To apply send a vita, a short description of your
current and future work, letters of recommendation (up to three), and
a writing example (preferably a published or in submission research
article). This packet should be sent to Carol Cron
([log in to unmask]) and William Rand ([log in to unmask]).
Prof. William Rand
Director of Center for Complexity in Business
3457 Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
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