D-Lab partners are offering many jobs, and we have a guest blog post!
- D-Lab Alumni Blog Post -
Aniket Kesari
Former D-Lab Senior Data Science Fellow
and D-Lab Postdoc
Jae Yeon Kim
Former D-Lab Senior Data Science Fellow
Introducing:
“A Three-Step Guide
to Training Computational Social Science
Ph.D. Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers”
by Aniket Kesari and Jae Yeon Kim
As D-Lab alumni, we are excited to introduce our pre-print “A Three-Step Guide to Training Computational Social Science PhD Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers.” We aim to demystify the “hidden curriculum” of graduate computational social science programs. We hope that this guide becomes useful for helping students develop the skills and expertise necessary to work as computational social scientists and navigate their graduate programs that might not formalize such pathways. Critically, we hope this guide is helpful for students interested in pursuing a wide range of careers both within and outside of academia.
New Program Fosters Next Generation of Climate Change, AI Thought Leaders
by Rachel Leven
Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS)
When combatting a challenge as complex as climate change, one kind of expertise isn’t enough. The Climate Change AI Summer School gives machine learning and climate experts a common language for understanding each other, and it creates opportunities for teamwork across disciplines.
Current D-Lab Data Science Fellow Meiqing Li found this was “a good opportunity to form connections and build a community that can work on future projects.” “Climate change is a challenge that needs close collaboration between domain experts and machine learning experts,” said Hari Das, one of the organizers of the summer school and also a D-Lab Consultant.
UCB Cloud Meetup:
Optimizing Qualitative Research in Public Health
Presenter: Wan Nurul Naszeerah,
Domain Consultant at Research IT
& Doctor of Public Health Student at UC Berkeley
December 8, 1:00pm-2:00pm
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud platform which offers over 200 fully featured services. Although AWS or similar platforms have been widely adopted for computational scientific research, their usage is still limited in public health research, which often relies on large amount of qualitative data in the form of audio, video, and texts. In this presentation, Wan will introduce AWS as a potential cost-effective solution for researchers in the fields of public health and social sciences. As this will be an introductory session, it is suitable for audience without background in cloud computing.
"Job Mobility and the Underlying Market Structure"
A Webinar from the Chinese University of Hong Kong
by Professor Hao Lingxin
December 9, 5:30pm-7:00pm
You are cordially invited to join a webinar of the Computational Social Science Laboratory (CSSL) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong by Professor Hao Lingxin. She will link observed job mobility to the life chances of workers, developing the notion of a job mobility zone to describe the underlying labour market structure. The talk uses an inferential random graph model to analyse data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation 2013-2016.
Statistician (Demography) Position
at the US Census Bureau
The Training and Statistical Development Branch in the U.S. Census Bureau's International Programs Center is hiring a Statistician (Demography), seeking candidates with expertise in demography, statistics, public health, survey methodology, and/or data science with strong programming skills in R.
The person selected for this position will lead the development of tools for demographic analysis and population projections and serve as a technical expert for various international demographic, statistical, and data science projects. The position requires frequent international travel to countries like Djibouti, Rwanda, and Mali.
Berkeley Center for New Media Hiring
an Events Coordinator & Office Manager
The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) seeks an Office and Events Coordinator who can execute events, assist in procurement, travel, space and audio-visual arrangements, catering, hotel accommodations, distribution of print collateral, directing volunteers, and managing events on-site. Financial responsibilities include management of payments and reimbursements and fund transfers.
The position further manages and maintains BCNM spaces on campus, including ordering equipment and supplies and resolving IT issues with support from campus IT. They also function as part of the BCNM team and provides back-up assistance to other BCNM staff as needed.
Several Positions at the
Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment (DSE)
Program Manager: DSE intends to hire 2-3 program managers who are excited to work at the intersection of Data Science and the Environment. This position manages the design and development of data-driven projects, works in collaboration with the Executive Director and Senior Engineers and supervises an interdisciplinary team of staff and students.
Data Scientist / Research Software Engineer: DSE seeks 2-3 Engineers who will play a critical role in developing and delivering on all technical aspects of DSE's project efforts. This position plans, designs, develops, modifies, debugs, deploys, and evaluates data science/computational science research software and technologies, and analyzes existing software, scientific codes, data science/analytics codes/algorithms related hardware or works to formulate logic for new systems and devises algorithms.
Senior Data Scientist / Research Software Engineer: DSE will hire 2 Senior Engineers who design and implement technical solutions, and will will apply advanced research and development expertise to plan, design, develop, modify, debug, deploy, and evaluate all data enabled computational tools that address environmental challenges. This position also understands how to evaluate all technical options, decide the best path forward, and develop upon the chosen path as a contributor and technical leader.
University of Notre Dame
Hiring for Three Positions Software Engineer: We seek a mid- to senior-level software engineer to join us as a member of a mission-focused team in the Applied Analytics and Emerging Technology Lab (AETL). In this role you would work closely with industry customers, partners, AETL data scientists and researchers to plan and manage analytics and web/mobile based software development projects in collaboration with a wide range of businesses including manufacturing and healthcare.
SEEK Commons Postdoctoral Researcher:The ideal candidate would work at the intersection of social and environmental research with a focus on the role that open technologies may play in hindering or facilitating the creation of a research commons. This is a joint appointment with the Anthropology department and the Lucy Family Institute. You will also have an appointment as a Research Fellow in the Open Environmental Data Project (OEDP) . This position is fully funded by the National Science Foundation (award # 2226425) for the period of three years starting January 1, 2023
Research Professor at the Intersection of Health Disparities, Public Health and Data Science: This is an open-rank, non-tenure track, three-year position with opportunity for promotion and renewal. A successful candidate will have strong training in socio-behavioral sciences, and bring a combination of skills in data science, mixed methods, social and structural determinants of health, and knowledge of physical and mental health disparities to initiate a program of research aimed at improving implementation and effectiveness of empirically supported prevention strategies. The Lucy Family Institute has recently launched Health Data Equity Lab, and this candidate will play an important role in developing the research foci of the Lab.
Senior Systems Engineer at UCLA HumTech
The Humanities Technology (HumTech) at UCLA is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer. This position serves as technical lead on operations and projects for current and future humanities computing infrastructures, and drives disaster recovery/business continuity planning.
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