55 faculty science statistics jobs found in Cambridge, MA

Title: Research Associate/Statistician School: Harvard School of Dental Medicine Department/Area:  Office of Global and Community Health Position Description       The Office of Global and Community Health (OGCH) and the HSDM Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine (Initiative) seeks a research associate to join our research team and provide quantitative and analytical support. Our faculty and student led research is focused on building the evidence base to promote the essentialism of oral health and to promote systems changes that enhance equitable health outcomes through integration of dental care with medical and social care. We promote public health dentistry, raise awareness, and alleviate disease burden through rigorous research and education programs. The Initiative is seeking a statistician to work on a variety of research projects and tasks. We use methods from the fields of computer science,...

Title Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Statistical Methods in Population Health Disparities School Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department/Area Biostatistics Position Description The Department of Biostatistics at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship focused on the development of statistical methods for population health disparities. The postdoctoral fellow will work with Dr. Briana Stephenson and collaborate with a multidisciplinary research team to develop innovative statistical and machine learning methods to address and identify bias and inequities in population health. Areas of interest include: identifying bias in healthcare access and delivery, statistical methods for high-dimensional exposures in minority populations, model-based clustering techniques for understudied populations, and survey sampling methodology for diverse population cohorts....

Job Number:   21970 Functional Area:  Research - Engineering Department:  Institute for Data, Systems, and Society School Area:   Schwarzman College of Computing Employment Type:  Full-Time Temporary Employment Category:   Exempt Visa Sponsorship Available:   Yes Information on MIT’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement can be found at the bottom of this posting. NORBERT WIENER POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN STATISTICS , I nstitute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)-Statistics and Data Science Center , to perform independent research in statistics and lead activities within IDSS.  Fellows will be matched with a faculty member in the Statistics and Data Science Center who will provide career advice and serve as a mentor.   Job Requirements REQUIRED :  a Ph.D. (expected or obtained) in statistics, engineering, computer science,...

STATISTICIAN ,  Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) , to support the design of an industry survey on computing and technology use among U.S. firms.  Will support the development of survey design and sampling strategy and assist with data analyses and quality assurance. Responsibilities include developing survey design and sampling strategy for FutureTech industry survey of U.S. firms; calculating sampling weights for survey data and calculating sampling errors; preparing description documents for sampling methodology and procedures used for the survey project; power calculation including complex survey design using simulations or other detailed analysis; providing technical assistance in sampling frame construction, sample design, sample size determination, stratification, sample selection, and weighting; exploring and implementing innovative sampling methods to accommodate the survey project specific needs and methodologies; providing...

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE/DATA SCIENCE LEAD IN CLIMATE AND ASIA REAL ESTATE RESEARCH ,  MIT Center for Real Estate,  to identify, collect, clean, prepare, and analyze data for research purposes and transform academic research into practical applications for policymakers and industry practitioners. Will work closely with Professor Siqi Zheng, faculty, and researchers; construct and use data models to support research needs; and communicate methodology, research findings, and potential applications via published white papers, reports, and articles. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge applied research at the intersection of data science and real estate. Job Requirements REQUIRED :  a Ph.D. in economics, statistics, or data science, preferably with a concentration in real estate, real estate development, real estate economics, or a related field; at least two years of experience in a field related to applied real estate...

RESEARCH SPECIALIST/LAB MANAGER ,  Linguistics and Philosophy-Language Acquisition Lab , to join a lab doing research on language acquisition in typically developing children. Will assist lab members and the principal investigator with research projects on syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic development.  Responsibilities will include designing, running and analyzing experiments with toddlers, children, and adults; preparing and/or developing experimental materials; preparing, storing, and managing sensitive participant data; recruiting participants; assisting with data analysis; coordinating, training, and supervising undergraduate research assistants; maintaining equipment; coordinating the use of space; organizing meetings; and managing lab expenses.   Job Requirements REQUIRED :  undergraduate degree in linguistics, cognitive science, or psychology; an interest in language acquisition and linguistics; experience working with young...

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ,  Center for Real Estate (CRE) , to join a highly collaborative team of faculty and researchers focusing on all aspects of real estate and urban economics, including housing, urban growth, finance, development, investment, housing affordability, sustainability, and new technologies. Will perform independent research in areas that include urban economics, housing, real estate finance, and the interaction between markets and housing affordability; publish, present, and disseminate research to the global community; collaborate with CRE professors in their research; work with private, industry, and/or government research sponsors to apply for research grants; and help identify projects and write case studies in urban economic and real estate finance, with an emphasis on affordable housing policies worldwide.  Will devote about 63% of the time to CRE-related duties and the rest to your own research.  The position offers an opportunity to...

DIGITAL LEARNING LAB FELLOW, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION MAKING (AI+DM) ,  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) , to oversee and lead the running of one or more of the AI+DM courses that comprise the MicroMasters program. Responsibilities include contributing to the development, revamping, and management of AI+DM MicroMasters courses (which span probability, statistical data analysis, machine learning, optimization, game theory, and computer vision), managing course materials and related content; designing, building, and optimizing learner assessment tools (e.g., problem sets and exams); overseeing and managing live courses, including key aspects of learner communication, performance tracking, and online exam administration; leading teaching assistants and community teaching assistants in facilitating instructive, productive discussions in live course forums; organizing and running online webinars and planning and managing live exams using...

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ,  Haystack Observatory,  to join an interdisciplinary research center engaged in radio astronomy, geodesy, upper atmospheric physics, and radar applications. Will play a significant role in the radio astronomy group and contribute to ultra-high-angular-resolution studies of supermassive black holes and active galactic nuclei and related software development for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a next-generation EHT (ngEHT) array, and other radio interferometers.  Haystack Observatory has a principal role in the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) represented by the development of next-generation very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) systems, radio interferometric modeling/imaging techniques, and scientific research using observational data.  Its research also includes low-frequency radio astronomy represented by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), high-frequency observations with the Haystack Observatory 37-m telescope, and...

SENIOR) RESEARCH ASSOCIATE ,  Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) , to support J-PAL’s mission to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Will write publications that “translate” economic research into lessons for policymakers around the world; support senior staff in creating materials for policy outreach, including publications, evaluation summaries, presentations, grant proposals, policy memos, blogs, social media content and newsletters, and website content among other sector-specific work; develop in-depth knowledge of J-PAL’s Science for Progress (SfP) initiative and work closely with the SfP initiative manager and co-chairs (Paul Niehaus, UCSD, and Heidi Williams, Stanford). The position offers an opportunity to gain strong understanding of the existing evidence base in metascience and science funding allocation, synthesize lessons to develop written briefs and presentations, and engage...

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE ,  Program in Media Arts and Sciences-Camera Culture , to join a highly collaborative team of faculty and researchers focusing on privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) in broad areas, including data analysis, machine learning, and novel sensing systems.  Responsibilities include performing independent research in areas including computational privacy, machine learning, cryptography, and federated and split learning; publishing, presenting, and disseminating research to the privacy, security, machine learning, and distributed learning communities; collaborating with professors outside MIT on their research; working with private/industry/government research sponsors to apply for research grants; helping identify projects; mentoring graduate students; supplementing a team of researchers to push research forward; and other duties as assigned.  The Camera Culture group focuses on making the invisible visible--inside our bodies, around...

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN COMPUTATIONAL MICROBIOLOGY AND URBAN HEALTH ,  Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP)-Senseable City Lab (SCL) , to fill a research position that focuses on understanding how human health and the environmental interact to influence Alzheimer’s disease risk. This project, titled “Dissecting the impact of environmental factors and the microbiome on Alzheimer’s disease”, will apply experimental and computational methods to quantify, characterize, and model the relationship between the urban environment, the human microbiome, and Alzheimer’s disease.  Will apply bioinformatic and biostatistical methods to analyze and interpret the multiomic data (e.g., metagenomics, metabolomics) of study participants; identify and collect metadata (e.g., socio-demographic, diet, lifestyle, geographic, clinical tests) from study participants; analyze unique urban data sets available at SCL to characterize the urban environment and...

RESEARCH SCIENTIST ,  McGovern Institute for Brain Research-K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center , to pursue a creative, collaborative research program developing new statistical and machine learning tools to analyze unique large, multiscale datasets obtained here using cutting-edge methods in molecular, circuit, and behavioral neuroscience and cognition. Will join world-class neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and engineers in solving today's most exciting computational research problems and apply statistics, machine learning, AI, and data science skills to shed light on brain function from data; develop and deploy new data analysis tools on multiple cross-disciplinary research projects; coordinate, organize, and work across labs towards a common goal; supervise and manage a research team to develop and execute the algorithms; provide guidance for standardization, storage, sharing, and management of large data sets; and help translate...

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I ,  McGovern Institute for Brain Research  (2 openings), to work with Dr. Ev Fedorenko. Will assist with research on the cognitive and neural basis of language. Responsibilities include assisting with all aspects of research, including designing, programming, and conducting behavioral, fMRI, and MEG experiments; analyzing behavioral, fMRI, MEG, and ECoG data; updating the lab website; implementing and maintaining analysis software; providing technical support for lab personnel; and performing some basic administrative duties. The position is ideal for individuals considering future graduate study in cognitive science or neuroscience.   Job Requirements REQUIRED :  a bachelor's degree in cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, engineering, psychology, physics, or math; two years of experience; strong math, statistics, and computer skills (e.g., MATLAB, Python, shell scripting); programming experience; and...

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I ,  Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE)-Lewis Neuroimaging Research Lab , to join the Lewis Lab, an interdisciplinary and collaborative lab focused on advanced brain imaging techniques and the neuroscience of sleep.  Will assist with all aspects of neuroimaging research (e.g., EEG, fMRI), including patient interactions.  The primary activities will include recruiting and screening participants for neuroimaging studies; conducting complex neuroimaging studies with multiple types of data acquisition; lab operations (e.g., supply purchasing, record-keeping, etc.); contributing to writing IRB protocols and amendments tracking human subject enrollment and QI tracking; and contributing to processing and analysis of neuroimaging data.  Data volumes are large (e.g., >5 GB for one recording session, >200 GB per study) and analysis can include signal processing, image processing, and timeseries statistics. Will also perform...

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I ,  McGovern Institute for Brain Research , to join the Kanwisher Lab and help conduct research on the functional organization of the human brain using fMRI, (occasional) intracranial recording, magnetoencephalography, eye tracking, behavior, and other methods. Responsibilities include assisting with all aspects of research, including designing and programming experiments; conducting fMRI and MEG scans and behavioral experiments; analyzing MRI, MEG, eye tracking, behavior, or other data; debugging Linux server problems; implementing and maintaining analysis software; creating and maintaining lab documentation; managing the lab's computational resources and storage, namely within the department's cluster; providing technical support for lab personnel; and performing some basic administrative duties.  Job Requirements REQUIRED :  bachelor’s degree in cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, engineering,...

KING CLIMATE ACTION (K-CAI) INITIATIVE FELLOW ,  Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) North America , to define a research agenda and build research partnerships to launch experimental transit studies that assess the impact of transportation decarbonization interventions. Will develop a white paper outlining existing evidence on transport decarbonization interventions, remaining policy-relevant research questions, and promising avenues for future randomized evaluation; conduct informational interviews and focus group discussions to solicit input from government staff; and support the execution of a range of policy dissemination and outreach activities to ensure the white paper and evidence review inform the direction of research and policymaking in the larger transport decarbonization space.     Job Requirements REQUIRED : a bachelor’s degree in economics, public policy or administration, statistics, or a closely related...

Job Summary The Department of Biostatistics is a very busy and diverse department focused on research and teaching. Our 70+ faculty are leaders in the development of statistical methods for clinical trials and observational studies, studies on the environment, computational biology, and genomics/genetics. We offer degree programs in biostatistics, computational biology and data science; currently, more than 180 students are enrolled in these programs. Our team invites applications for a Research Assistant (RA) in the National Studies on Air Pollution and Health (NSAPH) group. The work will involve close collaboration with Dr. Dominici, co-Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative and Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science (https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/francesca-dominici/), and her team of PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and data scientists. Senior research scientist, Dr. Danielle Braun, who is a senior member of the...

62103BR Position Description The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard is accepting applications for research associates to work on research activities at our newly formed research labs. D^3 launched in the summer of 2022 with 12 labs working on research at the intersection of academia and practice. For more information on D^3, please visit https://d3.harvard.edu. The Research Associate will work under the direct supervision of faculty Principal Investigators and Lab Manager of each lab. D^3 is looking for candidates with diverse backgrounds and/or new perspectives. There are no teaching requirements for these open positions. The Data Science & AI Operations (DSOps) Lab, incubating within the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH), led by HBS Professors Iavor Bojinov and Edward McFowland III, is seeking a Research Associate. The lab focuses on how companies develop data science capabilities throughout the entire pipeline, starting...

60801BR Job Summary The Department of Epidemiology, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, studies the frequency, distribution, and determinants of disease in humans, a fundamental science of public health. In addition to pursuing ground-breaking global research initiatives, we educate and prepare future medical leaders and practitioners as part of our mission to ignite positive changes in the quality of health across the world. The HaSET (“happiness” in Amharic) Global Maternal and Child Health Research Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Boston Children’s Hospital invites applications for a Research Project and Data Analyst (Research Assistant III) position. HaSET works closely with partners in Ethiopia and Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health to generate evidence to improve maternal and child health programs and policies. Within the HaSET research program, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH)...