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<\/a><\/p>\nThe 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.<\/p>\n
Desired skills include but are not limited to:
\n* Mining web data
\n* Statistical analysis of large data sets
\n* Building 3rd party apps (Open Mail, Facebook)
\n* Designing, building, and running web-based “virtual lab” experiments
\n* Designing, building, and running web-based field experiments<\/p>\n
Application Instructions<\/p>\n
Applications, including a CV and names\/addresses of three referees, should be emailed to:<\/p>\n
Duncan Watts, djw at yahoo-inc.com<\/p>\n
For more information on HSD personnel and publications, see<\/p>\n
http:\/\/research.yahoo.com\/Duncan_Watts<\/a> The Human Social Dynamics Group in Yahoo! Research is seeking highly qualified candidates 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[290,293,208,294,1205,140,173,289,291,292,64],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs","tag-computer-science","tag-goel","tag-goldstein","tag-hofman","tag-jobs","tag-new-york","tag-postdoc","tag-quantitative-social-science","tag-suri","tag-watts","tag-yahoo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-JK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttp:\/\/research.yahoo.com\/Sharad_Goel<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/research.yahoo.com\/Dan_Goldstein<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/research.yahoo.com\/Jake_Hofman<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/research.yahoo.com\/Siddharth_Suri<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"