Amsterdam Business School (Operations Management Section) at University of Amsterdam invites applications for a PhD position in Artificial Intelligence and Marketing.
Tasks and responsibilities:
The PhD candidate will work on:
- developing a store placement model based on social multimedia and open data;
- testing the model transferability and scalability to the other cities in The Netherlands;
- extending the model to the cities abroad, with completely different data availability and cultural context;
- investigating the models for quantifying reliability of data sources and models;
- proposing efficient and effective evaluation protocols, involving emerging technologies such as crowdsourcing
Requirements:
- Applicant must hold Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Econometrics (with a strong affinity towards CS/AI) or related field.
- Applicant must have experience with computer vision, information retrieval and machine learning; excellent programming skills in, for example, Python, C++ or Java; solid mathematics foundations, especially statistics and linear algebra.
- Applicant must demonstrate some motivation to publish in top-level academic journals in computer science and marketing.
- Applicant must possess fluency in English, both written and spoken.
Applications:
- Applications to be sent via applications-feb@uva.nl quoting vacancy number 18-118 in the subject line. All applications must include the following:
- CV
- List of university courses taken with grades;
- Maximum statement of motivation and research interests (1 page)
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Organization | University of Amsterdam |
Fellowship Level | Doctoral |
Country | Netherlands |
Subject areas | Computer Science |
Fellowship amount | Varies |
Eligibility | Open to all nationalities |
Deadline | 1 May 2018 |
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