Job Overview

Research Fellow (Computational Social Science)

School of Social Sciences (SSS) is looking for a candidate to join them as a Research Fellow to work with Associate Professor Qiu Lin from SSS, NTU, Singapore. You will work on developing data-driven computational models in the areas of social psychology.

Job Responsibilities

• Digital data collection (i.e., scraping)

• Conduct computational modeling to analyze large-scale datasets (including social media data)

• Project planning, research design and collection

• Management of large-scale datasets

• Prepare manuscripts for journal publication

Job Requirements

• Ph.D. in empirical social science (e.g., Psychology, Economics) or data science (e.g., Computer Science, Machine Learning) with research interests in computational social science

• Experience with programming, text mining, social computing, machine learning, text analysis and computational modeling

• Prior experience in working with social media data will be an advantage but is not required

• Strong statistical skills

• Experience in preparing academic reports and presentations

• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent organizational skills and able to work within given deadlines

• Self-directed learner who effectively picks up relevant skills as needed

We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

How to Apply