Dear Colleagues,

Please see below for a postdoctoral position at the Technology and Behavioral Science Initiative at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.  The person will have the opportunity to collaborate with faculty throughout the Penn community, including both Wharton and the computer science department. Postdocs will also have the freedom to pursue their own independent research; the position comes with an independent research budget that can be augmented through internal grants.

Would you mind sharing this with any students who might be interested?

Thanks for spreading the word.

Regards,

Jonah

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Jonah Berger | The Wharton School, UPenn
Invisible Influence and Contagious: Why Things Catch On

http://jonahberger.com

Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity @ Wharton/UPenn

The Technology and Behavioral Science Initiative of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is seeking applicants for a natural language processing postdoctoral fellowship.  Applicants should have the skills to apply recent advances in natural language processing and textual analysis to problems in behavioral science.  Examples include analyzing the structure of narrative to understand why movies succeed, what makes online content viral, why some risk messages are more effective, why some products and ideas catch on, and what drives cultural evolution.  The goal of the postdoc is to help further the bridge the gap between behavioral scientists studying the drivers (and consequences) of human behavior and computer scientists who have the toolkit to parse these large quantities of data. 

Applicants will work with Professors Jonah Berger and Robert Meyer, as well as other faculty on a variety of on-going projects in these areas, as well as be expected to undertake original research projects.

Applicants are welcome from a variety of fields, including computer science, information science, psychology, economics, and others. Priority will be given to applicants with an active interest in applying theories and methods of large-scale data analysis, including machine learning and natural language processing, to understanding human behavior.

Starting date: Summer or Fall 2018

Length: 1 year (with possibility of renewal)

How to apply: Please email your C.V., 1 or 2 representative publications or working papers and a letter of recommendation to mktg-recruitment@wharton.upenn.edu. Applicants must have a Ph.D. (expected completion by June 30, 2018 is acceptable) from an accredited institution. Incomplete applications will not be considered.  Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, so please apply soon if interested.