33.650, Support: Computational Linguistics: PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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Subject: 33.650, Support: Computational Linguistics: PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:02:53
From: Elena Romanin [elena.romanin at upf.edu]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

 Institution/Organization: Universitat Pompeu Fabra 
Department: Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology- (Department of Social and Political Sciences) 
Web Address: https://www.upf.edu/web/survey 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 
 

Description:

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Research and Expertise Centre for Survey
Methodology (RECSM) and Universitat de Girona are looking for a recent
Computer Scientist graduate with an interest to pursue a Ph.D. in Technology. 

RECSM is a multidisciplinary centre focusing on research in survey
methodology, linguistic and survey research, survey data analysis,
experimental research, political behaviour, statistical methods for the social
sciences, and social-personality psychology. For more information, see:
https://www.upf.edu/web/survey

Universitat de Girona
The Doctoral Programme in Technology incorporates all the lines of
technological research undertaken at the UdG and its general objective is to
train highly qualified researchers in this field who will be equipped with the
professional and personal skills and abilities to successfully join national
and international R&D&i systems. For more information visit the Department of
Electrical, Electronic and Automatic Engineering webpage:
https://www.udg.edu/en/depeeea

The position is directed to recent graduates (or last year Master’s students)
of computer science, information systems, informatics or similar areas. Its
continuation is conditional on being accepted in the PhD program and on
fulfilling yearly requirements of both the PhD and the tasks related to the
job. The position is located in Barcelona and Girona, Spain.

Task and responsibilities:
 - You will work on developing software for social research (programming
task).
 - You will work as a devops engineer (data engineering task).
 - You will develop new lines of social and political computational research.
 - You will work on a Ph.D. in Technology, Research Area 2. Networked and
agent-based information systems
 - You will work with a team of researchers and programmers, in an
international environment.
 - You will work on literature review of methods/applications in computational
social sciences.
 - You will publish in international peer-review journals and present at
academic conferences.
 
The successful candidate should have excellent written, oral and electronic
communication skills in English and be familiar with MySQL, MongoBD, Java,
Solidy and similar languages such as C#. Familiarity with Maven, PHPH, unit
testing, web development and Jenkins is considered a plus, as well as being
familiar with software engineering project patterns and clean coding. Problem
solving and analytical skills, ability to work with limited supervision and
capacity of delivering results and meet deadlines are also required.

For more information on the requirements, responsibilities, and the
application procedure, click here:
https://www.upf.edu/web/survey/home/-/asset_publisher/wEFy9I2Df739/content/id/
254679356/maximized 
 
If interested, send to Elsa Peris elsa.peris at upf.edu using the subject “Job
Application Researcher- computer scientist” with the following documents: 
 - a cover letter, 
 - a curriculum vitae, 
 - a sample of a finalized programming project or code, including technical
documentation. It can be a school/University project but we should be able to
access it on the cloud without revealing your gender, name or origin. It is
also possible that you send a downloadable application or code. 

Applications should be written in English. 
Review of applications begins in February 2022 and will stop as soon as the
position is filled.
 

Contact Information: 
	Elsa Peris
	elsa.peris at upf.edu  


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