Fwd: Postdoc opportunity at Princeton

[Matthew Barnes]

FYI, postdoc position on a v interesting (and important!) problem

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From: Jacob N. Shapiro <jns at princeton.edu>
Date: Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 8:46 AM
Subject: Postdoc opportunity at Princeton
To: mbarnes1 at cs.cmu.edu <mbarnes1 at cs.cmu.edu>


Matt,

I hope all is well, we met a few years back on the Memex project.m Your
name has come up in several conversations I have had lately as I try to
recruit a postdoc for some fun work on tracking foreign influence efforts
on democratic elections.

The job is working with me, Nick Feamster from CS, and Brandon Stewart from
sociology on measuring foreign influence efforts in US politics. Formal
posting is here
<https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=7721>.
Our goal is to run a series of tests over the course of the year to figure
out the feasibility of putting up a public-facing dashboard for 2020 that
would track, measure, and publicize foreign influence efforts by issue area
and election (e.g. presidential, various senate seats, etc.). We have great
support from Microsoft and another foundation on this, and one MA-level
person with good experience already on the team, so there’s tons of
opportunity.

We need someone who likes democracy, is personally offended by foreign
states trying to influence it through social media and disinformation, can
code, and would enjoy writing fun papers applying machine learning to large
text corpora about politics.

I suspect you may be fully occupied this year, but if there are other folks
in your lab or personal network who would be good fits please send them my
way.

All the best,

Jake

Jacob N. Shapiro
Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Director Empirical Studies of Conflict Project
Princeton University
E-mail: jns at princeton.edu <jns at princeton.edu>
Office: 609-258-2256 <(609)%20258-2256>
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