PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Marketing 2099 views

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)