37 faculty science mathematics jobs found in Cambridge, MA

Title Professor of Mathematics School Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department/Area Mathematics Position Description Candidates are invited to apply for a tenured professorship in the broad field of Analysis, including Probability Theory. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2024. The tenured professor will be responsible for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. We are seeking candidates who have an outstanding research record and a strong commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching. Applicants should submit the following materials: 1. Cover letter 2.   Curriculum vitae 3 .  Authorization form  (This authorization will only be used for the finalist after receiving a contingent written offer,  view the definitions ) The following documents may be required at a later stage: 4 .  Teaching statement (describing teaching approach and philosophy) 5. Research...

Title Postdoctoral Fellow at Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications School Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department/Area Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications Position Description The Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications at Harvard University welcomes applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position in the mathematical sciences for the academic year 2023-2024 or the academic years 2023-2025. The Center is seeking in particular individuals with a strong mathematical science background who are interested in applying mathematics to fields such as physics, biology, finance, statistical data analysis, economics, computer science, AI, machine learning, and other disciplines. Basic Qualifications Ph.D. in relevant field Additional Qualifications   Special Instructions The application should include a cover letter/letter of application, a CV, a research...

Title Professor of Mathematics School Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department/Area Mathematics Position Description Candidates are invited to apply for a tenured professorship in the broad field of Analysis, including Probability Theory. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2024. The tenured professor will be responsible for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. We are seeking candidates who have an outstanding research record and a strong commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching. Applicants should submit the following materials: Cover letter Curriculum vitae Authorization form  (This authorization will only be used for the finalist after receiving a contingent written offer,  view the definitions ) The following documents may be required at a later stage: Teaching statement (describing teaching approach and philosophy) Research statement Statement...

Title Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Algebra and Geometry School Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Department/Area Applied Mathematics Position Description A postdoctoral position is available in Anna Seigal’s group at Harvard University. The group is working in the area of Applied Algebra and Geometry. For recent publications, see  https://people.math.harvard.edu/~aseigal/ . For questions, please send an email to  aseigal@math.harvard.edu . Those from underrepresented minorities in mathematics are particularly encouraged to apply. This is a 1 year position. The start date is flexible, but ideally around August 2023. Basic Qualifications Candidates must have a PhD in Mathematics or a related discipline by the time the appointment begins. Additional Qualifications   Special Instructions Submit a CV, cover letter, research...

Title Professor of Mathematics School Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department/Area Mathematics Position Description Candidates are invited to apply for a tenured professorship in the broad field of Analysis, including Probability Theory. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2024. The tenured professor will be responsible for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. We are seeking candidates who have an outstanding research record and a strong commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching. Applicants should submit the following materials: 1. Cover letter 2.   Curriculum vitae 3 .  Authorization form  (This authorization will only be used for the finalist after receiving a contingent written offer,  view the definitions ) The following documents may be required at a later stage: 4 .  Teaching statement (describing teaching approach and philosophy) 5. Research...

Title Postdoctoral Fellow in Geometric Machine Learning School Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Department/Area Applied Mathematics Position Description A postdoctoral position is available in Melanie Weber’s group at Harvard University. The group works at the intersection of Geometry and Machine Learning, with a focus on recognizing and exploiting geometric structure in data and models. Research areas include Representation Learning, Machine learning and Optimization on Graphs and Manifolds, as well as applications of geometric methods in the sciences. For more information and recent publications, see  http://melanie-weber.com/ . For questions, please email  mweber@seas.harvard.edu . This is a one-year position, with possible extension. The start date is flexible, but ideally around August 2023. Review of applications will begin in January 2023, but applications will be...

Title Professor of Mathematics School Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department/Area Mathematics Position Description Candidates are invited to apply for a tenured professorship in the broad field of Analysis, including Probability Theory. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2024. The tenured professor will be responsible for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. We are seeking candidates who have an outstanding research record and a strong commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching. Applicants should submit the following materials: Cover letter Curriculum vitae Teaching statement (describing teaching approach and philosophy) Research statement Statement describing efforts to encourage diversity, inclusion, and belonging, including past, current, and anticipated future contributions in these areas. Authorization form   (This authorization will only be used for the...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. MATHEMATICS LECTURER ,  Concourse , to teach the first year mathematics curriculum in calculus, multi-variable calculus, and differential equations, including coordinating topics, homework sets, exams, etc., with other lecturers in the program to support an integrated educational experience.  Will also participate in a weekly program seminar, student advising, program review, and other activities to enhance the educational experience of students.   Concourse is an interdisciplinary program for approximately fifty first-year students, in which physics, mathematics, and chemistry are integrated with the teaching of humanities.  The program is comprised of students and instructors who have broad intellectual interests and who wish to address the fundamental question of what is the good life for human beings, both as individuals and as members of...

Title Postdoctoral Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience and/or Theory of Neural Computation School Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Department/Area Applied Mathematics Position Description A postdoctoral position is available in Cengiz Pehlevan’s group at Harvard University. We are looking for candidates with strong analytical and numerical skills, and backgrounds in (theoretical) neuroscience, applied mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science, or related fields. Our research areas are in theoretical neuroscience and the theory of neural computation in natural and artificial systems. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to join our ongoing projects and/or pursue new directions. For recent publications, see  pehlevan.seas.harvard.edu . For questions, please send an e-mail to  cpehlevan@seas.harvard.edu .The position is funded for multiple years, with an...

Title Postdoctoral Fellow in Geometric Machine Learning School Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Department/Area Applied Mathematics Position Description A postdoctoral position is available in Melanie Weber’s group at Harvard University. The group works at the intersection of Geometry and Machine Learning, with a focus on recognizing and exploiting geometric structure in data and models. Research areas include Representation Learning, Machine learning and Optimization on Graphs and Manifolds, as well as applications of geometric methods in the sciences. For more information and recent publications, see  http://melanie-weber.com/ . For questions, please email  mweber@seas.harvard.edu . This is a one-year position, with possible extension. The start date is flexible, but ideally around August 2023. Review of applications will begin in January 2023, but applications will be...

Title Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Macroeconomics (Prof Chodorow-Reich and Straub) School Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department/Area Economics Position Description Professors Gabriel Chodorow-Reich and Ludwig Straub of the Harvard Economics Department are seeking a predoctoral fellow for the 2023-2024 academic year. The fellow will be actively involved in all stages of macroeconomic research, including brainstorming, literature reviews, data search and curation, data analysis and programming / coding state-of-the-art macroeconomic models. The fellow will also be an active participant in the Harvard University research community. The fellowship includes opportunities to develop a research agenda in related topics, to attend seminars, and to audit a course (with permission of the instructors). The position is the ideal training ground for a recent graduate who is interested in pursuing a PhD in Economics. Salary is $52,000,...

Title Assistant/Associate Professor of Biostatistics School Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department/Area Biostatistics Position Description The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health seeks candidates to fill a tenure-track faculty position at the assistant or associate professor level. We seek candidates with backgrounds in quantitative health science research in areas such as biostatistical theory and methods and/or machine learning and data science, with demonstrated expertise in the development of new methods as well as a record of collaborative research. Candidates with a broad range of research interests are welcome and encouraged to apply; particular attention will be paid to applicants whose areas of interest include methodological work in statistical and population genetics and/or causal inference. Responsibilities will include methodological and collaborative research,...

Title Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of Historical Psychology in Latin Texts School Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department/Area Human Evolutionary Biology Position Description We seek a postdoctoral fellow with research experience in computational approaches to language and literature to work on a cross-institutional project on the study of historical psychology in Latin texts. This is a one-year full-time position beginning in Spring 2023 and potentially renewable for one additional year. Besides regular meetings with the project PI, Joe Henrich (Harvard University; Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab), and co-PI, Jonathan Schulz (George Mason University), the position will entail close collaboration with the Quantitative Criticism Lab, co-directed by Joseph Dexter (Harvard University) and Pramit Chaudhuri (University of Texas at Austin). The aim of the project is to develop computational methods for the study of...

Title Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of Historical Psychology in Latin Texts School Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department/Area Human Evolutionary Biology Position Description We seek a postdoctoral fellow with research experience in computational approaches to language and literature to work on a cross-institutional project on the study of historical psychology in Latin texts. This is a one-year full-time position beginning in Spring 2023 and potentially renewable for one additional year. Besides regular meetings with the project PI, Joe Henrich (Harvard University; Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab), and co-PI, Jonathan Schulz (George Mason University), the position will entail close collaboration with the Quantitative Criticism Lab, co-directed by Joseph Dexter (Harvard University) and Pramit Chaudhuri (University of Texas at Austin). The aim of the project is to develop computational methods for the study of diachronic...

Position Description     The Onnela Lab in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is seeking candidates with a Ph.D. in biostatistics, applied mathematics, computer science, or a related quantitative field for a two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position. This position involves developing statistical methods, data analytic tools, and mathematical models for analyzing smartphone data–collected with our high-throughput digital phenotyping platform–in biomedical research cohorts with the goal of establishing more precise and dynamic disease phenotypes. Specifically, this postdoc position will focus on developing statistical methods for the recognition and quantification of human activity data using primarily accelerometer data from smartphones and wearables. Basic Qualifications     Doctoral degree in statistics, biostatistics, computer science, applied mathematics, or a related quantitative field....

Position Description     The Onnela Lab in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is seeking candidates with a Ph.D. in biostatistics, applied mathematics, statistical physics, computer science, or a related quantitative field for two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions. These positions involve developing statistical methods, data analytic tools, and mathematical models for analyzing two different types of systems. In the first area, statistical network science, we develop methods that are at the intersection of statistical learning and network science with applications in social and biological networks. In the second area, smartphone-based digital phenotyping, we develop tools and methods for analyzing data collected by our smartphone platform. Our ongoing applied studies in this area involve diverse patient populations from neurology to psychiatry and oncology. The candidates can focus on one of these areas only or may...

Title Postdoctoral Fellow School Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department/Area Department of Biostatistics/Quantitative Cancer Biology and Analysis Position Description We are seeking a candidate with expertise in computational and systems biology to work as part of a multidisciplinary team developing methods relevant to the study of genetics, gene regulatory networks, and the use of quantitative imaging data as biomarkers. Our goal is to use these methods to better understand the development, progression, and response to therapy. The successful applicant will work directly with Dr. John Quackenbush, but will be part of a community of researchers consisting of Dr. Quackenbush, Dr. Kimberly Glass, Dr. John Platig, and Dr. Camila Lopes-Ramos, and members of their research teams. Basic Qualifications A PhD in computational biology, biostatistics, applied mathematics, physics, biology, or related...

Title Postdoctoral Fellowships in Computer Science School Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Department/Area Computer Science Position Description The John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Department of Statistics at Harvard University seeks applicants for four postdoctoral fellow programs in Computer Science. Michael O. Rabin Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Computer Science The John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University (SEAS) seeks applicants for the Michael O. Rabin* Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Computer Science. The normal duration of the Rabin Fellowship is two years. Rabin Fellows will receive a generous salary as well as an allocation for research and travel expenses. We are looking for junior scientists in theoretical computer science, broadly construed. Rabin Fellows will be provided...

Title Lecturer in Engineering Design School Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Department/Area   Position Description The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) seeks applications for a Lecturer in Engineering Design with a focus on computation and computer engineering, with an expected start date of July 1, 2023. The full-time position is for three years, with the second two years contingent on a satisfactory performance review during the first year. Responsibilities will include the following: Co-teaching at least one semester of the Master’s in Design Engineering (MDE) studio course (STU 1231/1232) annually. The MDE program is a collaborative degree program run jointly by SEAS and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. It is geared towards understanding complex societal grand challenges and building prototypical solutions...

Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR ,  Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences , to join the Climate Modeling Alliance (CliMA), a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and applied mathematicians spanning MIT, Caltech, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  Will collaborate with the MIT team to develop the ocean component of a new climate model in the Julia programming language that is flexible, easy to use, and runs on laptops, supercomputers, and GPUs.  The ways that the postdoctoral scholar could contribute include the implementation of novel numerical methods for climate modeling, the development of parameterizations of subgrid-scale processes leveraging data assimilation and machine learning approaches, and innovative computational studies of ocean processes controlling key climate features that leverage the unique capabilities of the...