MD Postdoctoral fellowship - Center for Complexity in Business

The Center for Complexity in Business at the University of Maryland's
Robert H. Smith School of Business seeks applications for a
postdoctoral fellowship for the 2014-2015 school year.  The mission of
the Center for Complexity in Business is to become the premier
international academic research center for the application of complex
systems method to business and management science.  This postdoctoral
fellowship position will aid in helping the Center achieve this
mission through research in the areas of computational modeling and
data science to study and understand complex relationships in markets
and in the areas of social media and big data.

The position will provide salary and benefits for at least one year,
but potentially longer contingent upon performance and funding
availability.  Applications will be reviewed starting immediately and
will continue until the position is filled.

Candidates will be expected to work primarily on interdisciplinary
projects that examine and analyze the diffusion of information in
social media.   We welcome applicants from a variety of disciplinary
backgrounds (e.g., sociology, computer science, information science,
and business and management science).  Candidates will be expected to
be able to analyze large-scale data contained in a relational
database.  Familiarity with a relational database, such as MySQL, and
a high-level analysis platform, such as R, Matlab or SPSS, is
required.  Candidates who can demonstrate expertise in social network
analysis, computational social science, agent-based modeling, or
machine / statistical learning will be given priority.  Programming
expertise is also a plus.

The postdoctoral researcher will be working with an interdisciplinary
team of computer science, physics, statistics and management science
faculty members, and will potentially become involved with work
related to corporate sponsors of the Center for Complexity.  The
postdoctoral researcher will also focus on developing mentoring
relationships with Smith residents and external faculty.   Fellows
will have full access to the resources of the Center, the Smith School
and the University of Maryland, which includes large-scale computing
resources and administrative support.

Candidates will be expected to have completed all the requirements for
the doctorate in their discipline by the time of the initial
appointment.  To apply send a vita, a short description of your
current and future work, letters of recommendation (up to three), and
a writing example (preferably a published or in submission research
article).  This packet should be sent to Carol Cron
(ccron@rhsmith.umd.edu) and William Rand (wrand@rhsmith.umd.edu).