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Faculty/Postdoctoral Openings

Faculty Openings

Statistics/Data Science/Machine Learning Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Faculty Position
Statistics / Data Science Visiting Assistant Professor Position

Postdoctoral Openings

Postdoctoral fellow position in the NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Northwestern University

 

Faculty Openings

Statistics/Data Science/Machine Learning Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Faculty Position

Northwestern University’s Department of Statistics and Data Science invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor faculty position with expertise in data science, broadly defined, and with experience/interest in big data analysis, to begin on September 1, 2023. PhD in statistics/computer science or related fields is required. Research experience and expertise in machine learning and/or data science is desirable. Duties include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, conducting research, and advising students.

Review of applications will start on Oct 1, 2022 and continue until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a cover letter, CV, a teaching and research statement, as well as three contacts for letters of recommendation via application link below. Questions to Kisa Kowal k-kowal@northwestern.edu.

Please read ALL instructions and make preparations before proceeding to the application page:

Applications accepted here

Northwestern requires all staff and faculty to be vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to limited exceptions. For more information, please visit our COVID-19 and Campus Updates website.

The Northwestern campus sits on the traditional homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa as well as the Menominee, Miami and Ho-Chunk nations. We acknowledge and honor the original people of the land upon which Northwestern University stands, and the Native people who remain on this land today.

Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer of all protected classes, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply.

 

Statistics / Data Science Visiting Assistant Professor Position

Northwestern University, Department of Statistics and Data Science invites applications for a two-year visiting assistant professor position with expertise in statistics/data science to begin September 1, 2023. PhD in statistics/computer science or related fields is required. Research and teaching experience in statistics/data science is desirable. Duties includes teaching 4 courses per year and conducting research.

Review of applications will start on Oct 1, 2022 and continue until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a cover letter, CV, research and teaching statement, as well as three contacts for letters of recommendation via the application link below. Questions to Kisa Kowal, k­-kowal@northwestern.edu.

Please read ALL instructions and make preparations before proceeding to the application page:

Applications accepted here

Northwestern requires all staff and faculty to be vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to limited exceptions. For more information, please visit our COVID-19 and Campus Updates website.

The Northwestern campus sits on the traditional homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa as well as the Menominee, Miami and Ho-Chunk nations. We acknowledge and honor the original people of the land upon which Northwestern University stands, and the Native people who remain on this land today.

Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer of all protected classes, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply.

 

Postdoctoral openings

Postdoctoral fellow position in the NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Northwestern University

One Postdoctoral fellow position is available in the NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Northwestern University. The Center offers a highly interdisciplinary research environment where biologist and mathematicians or statisticians are teamed up to develop novel mathematical/statistical approaches to tackle important but unanswered questions in biology. Some of our recent work  on the topics could be found at:

  1. DNAcycP: a deep learning tool for DNA cyclizability prediction, Nucleic Acids Research, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac162
  2. RiboDiPA: A novel tool for differential pattern analysis in Ribo-seq data, Nucleic Acids Research,2020,48(21), doi:10.1093/nar/gkaa1049
  3. BoostMEC: predicting CRISPR-Cas9 cleavage efficiency through boosting models, BMC Bioinformatics volume 23, Article number: 446 (2022)

The fellow to be hired will be jointly mentored by two experienced PIs including Dr. Ji-Ping Wang from Departments of Statistics and Data Science (home department) and Dr. Xiaozhong Wang from Molecular Biosciences to develop new data-driven approaches for inference of dynamic chromatin states using high throughput next-generation sequencing data.  A successful candidate should possess a Ph.D. Degree in Statistics, mathematics, bioinformatics or related computational majors. Statistical training or experience in machine learning, dimension reduction is desirable but not required.  Experience or knowledge in genomics will be a plus. Strong programming skills are expected.

Interested applicants should send CV and three reference letters to Dr. Ji-Ping Wang (jzwang@northwestern.edu) by May 31, 2023.

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