{"id":5972,"date":"2016-11-23T22:15:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T03:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=5972"},"modified":"2016-11-30T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T04:00:08","slug":"researcher-postdoc-positions-computational-social-science-microsoft-research-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=5972","title":{"rendered":"Researcher and postdoc positions in Computational Social Science at Microsoft Research NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MICROSOFT RESEARCH NEW YORK CITY<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/msrav2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3787\" title=\"msrav2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/msrav2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Research NYC seeks outstanding applicants for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">researcher<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">postdoctoral<\/span> positions in computational social science. Successful applicants will have strong quantitative and programming skills. For more information, see the call at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/computational-social-science\/\">MSR NYC Computational Social Science website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SPECIAL NOTE TO DECISION SCIENCE NEWS READERS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MSR-NYC is a seriously quantitative place. For the social science postdocs, applicants should have strong competence in computer programming, math, or statistics at the level of someone with a Bachelor&#8217;s or Master&#8217;s degree in CS, math, or stats. Simply meeting the stats requirements in a social science PhD program would not be enough to be considered.<\/li>\n<li>In additional to having computational or mathematical skills, only applicants with computational or statistical research interests will be considered.<\/li>\n<li>The researcher positions are similar to professorships, with a focus on discovery and publication.<\/li>\n<li>The postdocs are good preparation for a career in academia (often taken to defer starting a professorship by a year or two) and are not intended for people looking to move into industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Research NYC seeks serious quants and programmers for researcher and postdoctoral positions in computational 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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[490,685,52,1205,488,533,60,173,136,486,93,1216,59,438],"class_list":["post-5972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs","tag-computational","tag-computer","tag-decision","tag-jobs","tag-microsoft","tag-mturk","tag-news","tag-postdoc","tag-professorship","tag-programming","tag-research","tag-researcher","tag-science","tag-social"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-1yk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972","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=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5977,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions\/5977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}