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Company Information

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges.

Duties and Responsibilities

The candidate will be given the opportunity to pursue a broad research agenda at the intersection of statistics and machine learning and will ideally have a background in at least one of the following areas: latent variable models, deep generative models, causal inference, nonparametric statistics, learning theory, or graphical models.

Position Qualifications

The candidate should have a recent Ph.D. (or all-but-dissertation) in statistics, computer science, mathematics, or a related area, and should be proficient in programming in Python or R. This position is expected to last at least one year, with the possibility of renewal for up to three years.