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
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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
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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<mailto: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.