Connectionists: Multiple PhDs and Postdoctoral Positions in Social and Information Systems at MPI-SWS

[Manuel Gomez Rodriguez]

Multiple PhDs and Postdoctoral Positions in Social and Information Systems
at MPI-SWS
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The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS,
http://www.mpi-sws.org/) is growing its presence in social and information
systems with multiple PhD and postdoctoral positions under the supervision
of Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, Krishna Gummadi and/or Adish Singla.

MPI-SWS is at the forefront of research in a large variety of topics in
social and information systems, from fairness, accountability and
transparency in algorithmic decision making, temporal point processes for
modeling and control of social processes, to the emerging field of machine
teaching. Researchers at MPI-SWS have published extensively in the top
conference in the field (e.g., NIPS, ICML, KDD, WWW, WSDM, ICWSM) and
received numerous awards, including an ERC Advanced grant, several Humboldt
postdoctoral awards, and best/runner-up paper awards at NIPS, WWW, or ICWSM.

Applicants should be highly motivated and creative and have an exceptional
background in machine learning, probability, optimization or social
computing, as well as excellent programming skills. Postdoctoral applicants
should have a strong track record of research publications in top tier
conferences and a Ph.D. in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science,
Information Science, Engineering, Statistics & Optimization).

MPI-SWS currently has 13 tenured and tenure-track faculty and about 50
doctoral and post-doctoral researchers and is located in Kaiserslautern and
Saarbruecken, in the tri-border area of Germany, France and Luxembourg. The
institute maintains an open, international and diverse work environment and
we seek applications from outstanding candidates regardless of national
origin or citizenship. Working language at MPI-SWS is English -- German is
not required. The salary is highly competitive and you will have great
support to do outstanding research.

In order to apply, please, refer to
https://www.mpi-sws.org/graduate-studies/#admission (phd positions) or
https://www.mpi-sws.org/research-careers/#postdoctoral-positions
(postdoctoral positions). Informal inquiries should be directed to
applications-sis at mpi-sws.org. Reviews of applications will start
immediately, and continue until the positions are filled.
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