Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bayesian Statistics & Statistical Learning at Karlsruhe Institu[...]

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (f/m/d) – Focus on: Bayesian Statistics & Statistical Learning

The newly established Research Group Methods for Big Data at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Scientific Computing Center welcomes applications for a postdoctoral research fellow (f/m/d).

Responsibilities

• develop novel statistical methods that leverage the potential of Bayesian statistics and machine learning
• investigate theoretical properties of the developed methods
• implement the developed methods
• contribute to joint research inside the group
• publish the results at leading journals, workshops and conferences

Qualifications

• Excellent university degree (master) and completed PhD in statistics mathematics, data science, or statistics-oriented computer science
• Strong expertise in the theoretical and computational aspects of Bayesian statistics
• Profound expertise in at least one of the following areas (in addition to Bayesian statistics): High-dimensional statistics, Distributional and advanced regression, Survival analysis, Variational inference, Copula modelling
• Track record and excellent publications in at least one of the main research areas above
• Strong computational, mathematical skills
• Solid programming skills in any scientific programming language, e.g. Python, R
• High proficiency in English, both written and spoken for your scientific publications and presentations
• High degree of creativity, commitment, analytical competence, and interdisciplinary teamwork

What we offer

We offer you an exciting and varied job within an agile team as well as a wide range of training opportunities and flexible and family-friendly working time models. For more information about SCC as your new work home, please visit https://www.scc.kit.edu/en/aboutus/working-at-scc.php

Application

We are looking forward to your application ( Motivation letter / CV / Certificates)!

Salary & Organization

Salary: Salary category 13, depending on the fulfillment of professional and personal requirements.

Organizational unit: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Scientific Computing Center (SCC)

Application deadline

Application up to 30.09.2024

Contact

Contact person in line-management: For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Nadja Klein, E-Mail: nadja.klein@kit.edu.

Equal opportunity statement

We prefer to balance the number of employees (f/m/d). Therefore we kindly ask female applicants to apply for this job. Recognized severely disabled persons will be preferred if they are equally qualified.