Jobs at University of Technology Sydney

Position: Casual Research Assistant – UTS Data Science at the faculty of Engineering & Information Technology

Responsibilities

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications

• Engage in research appropriate to the strategic research direction of Centre for Data Science.
• Establish and develop productive collaborative research activity internally with colleagues in the Centre, School and University and externally with other broader-based research partners.
• Produce research publications at a rate appropriate to the level of employment.
• Similarly, present ongoing research to colleagues, participate in and contribute to the research culture of the School.
• Contributed as a presenter to the activities that can demonstrate to the public, potential collaborators, or visitors the research achievements/goals of Centre for Data Science.
• Collaborate with the team leaders and other team members for related experiment design or platform design.
• Supervise research students of the School as well as contribute to the development of research students as future researchers.

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications

• Masters diploma (with a research component) in an appropriate area of computer science, currently ongoing or completed already. Happy to consider Ph.D. students with available time;
• Computer science background(essential), strong data science knowledge (having hands-on experience is a plus). Similarly, strong programming skills (Python and/or R), machine learning knowledge
• Good mathematical and statistics background, ideally in time series analysis, point processes – actuarial or financial studies are a plus.
• Furthermore, the potential for research achievement.

University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

The University of Technology Sydney is the Australian public research university in Sydney, Australia. It was born in 1988 when the former New South Wales Institute of Technology became officially as University of Technology Sydney. History of New South Wales Institute of Technology was dated back from 1964. In addition to that, UTS has been actively providing education to more than 40,000 students in over 130 undergraduate and 210 postgraduate courses under departments like Science, Engineering, Humanities, Arts, Business, Information Technology, and so on. With over 40,000 students, UTS is one of the largest Australian institutes in terms of total enrolment.