Company: QCRI, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Location: Doha, Qatar
Web: www.qcri.com

Contact: Patrick Meier, pmeier@qf.org.qa

My team and I at QCRI are urgently seeking to recruit someone with a PhD (or near completion) to join our Social Innovation team in Doha. The person in question will work on our Data for Development & Resilience projects with the United Nations, Rockefeller Foundation and the World bank. She or he will focus on developing methods to identify socio-economic signals from non-traditional data sources, particularly social media and call data records.

Requirements (somewhat ranked):

• PhD and a strong track record
• Experience in acquiring and processing social media data (call data record a plus)
• Experience in using machine learning and statistical methods for data analysis
• Publications in top tier venues, not necessarily in core computer science
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal
• Experience in using scripting language for text processing
• Experience in working in a Linux environment
• Ideally experience in working in an interdisciplinary team with domain experts
• Ideally experience in working with text in non-Latin alphabets

General "tags": Web mining, social media analysis, call data record analysis, computational social science

QCRI offers highly competitive compensation including attractive tax-free salary and additional benefits such as free & furnished accommodation, excellent medical insurance, 6+ weeks of annual paid leave, etc.

_Contact_:
To apply, please send your resume to pmeier@qf.org.qa and include "Social Innovation Application" in the subject header.