[Research] FW: data mining job opening

[Andrew W Moore]

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From: Niklas Karlsson [mailto:nkarlsson at advertising.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 1:34 PM
To: awm at cs.cmu.edu
Subject: data mining job opening

 

Dear Andrew,

 

We don't know each other, but I happened to find your excellent tutorial
slides on Data Mining and since our R&D team is looking for a Data Mining
Expert I figured I'd ask if you know of some good and available candidates.

 

My name is Niklas Karlsson I and lead the R&D in control systems at
Advertising.com. Advertising.com is the largest internet advertising network
in the world, serving over one billion ads per day, reaching over 80% of the
internet population each month (for comparison, Yahoo reaches 70% and Google
48%). We have worked with hundreds of clients including 14 of the largest 20
advertisers in the US, and all of the top ten advertisers in the UK. We
maintain offices in Baltimore, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Los
Angeles, Mountain View, London, Paris, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Hamburg,
and Madrid.

 

Advertising.com is a performance-based network.  Generally, the advertisers
pay only when a consumer not only clicks on an ad, but actually purchases
the product being advertised.  Conversely, we typically pay websites every
time we show an ad on their site. That is, we bear all the risk.

 

To turn this into a viable business, our Research and Development team in
Mountain View, CA, has developed an advanced system based on optimization
that determines which ad to show to which person. The research involves
modeling of complex, nonlinear, stochastic systems; as well as, design of
efficient control schemes to meet several conflicting goals. 

 

The R&D department is located in Mountain View, CA (Silicon Valley) where I
lead the research on control. Advertising.com is dealing with online
advertisement and is a profitable and all-around financially sound company. 

 

I write to you is to see if you know of some strong candidates for our team.
We are expanding and are looking for strong additions to the R&D team here
in Mountain View, California (Silicon Valley). What we currently are looking
for is a Data Mining Expert. It's a research position, so we hope to find
someone with a Ph.D. in statistics, computer science, or similar, with a
knowledge in statistics and for example, tree-based methods, generalized
models, learning algorithms, model validation, and the like. If you happen
to know of some strong candidate it would be great if you can forward this
information to him or her. I have attached a more formal job description.

 

More information about the company can be found at
http://www.advertising.com, but if there are any questions about the job
opening or Advertising.com, I'll be more than happy to answer those. Anyone
interested can contact me at  <mailto:nkarlsson at advertising.com>
nkarlsson at advertising.com.

 

Take care!

 

Best regards,

 

Niklas Karlsson

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