PhD position in the area of Causal Inference
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The University of Amsterdam invites applications for a fully funded position
for a PhD candidate in the area of causal modeling, reasoning and discovery,
with a strong focus on applications in molecular biology. The position is part
of the VIDI project 'Causal Inference: Theory for Applications' funded by the
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), and will be supervised
by dr. Joris Mooij.

Application closing date:  March 1, 2015
Preferred starting date:   April 1, 2015 (later starting date is possible)
Duration:                  4 years 

About the project
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Many questions in science concern causal relationships. Causal inference, a
branch of statistics and machine learning, studies how cause-effect
relationships can be discovered from data and how these can be used to make
predictions in situations where a system has been perturbed by an external
intervention. The ability to reliably make such predictions is of great value
for practical applications in a variety of disciplines. The research will focus
on the development of new theory and efficient algorithms for robust discovery
of causal relationships and estimation of causal effects from a combination of
observational data, interventional data, and background knowledge. This work
will be done with a strong focus on applications in molecular biology, one of
the most promising areas for automated causal discovery from data, enabling a
thorough validation of causal prediction methods in practice.

About the academic environment
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The successful candidate will be based in the Intelligent Autonomous Systems
(IAS) Group led by prof. dr. Max Welling, which is part of the Intelligent
Systems Lab Amsterdam (ISLA) within the Informatics Institute (IvI) at the
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The institute was recently ranked
among the top 50 computer science departments in the world by the 2011 QS World
University IT Rankings. ISLA consists of 20 members of faculty, 20
post-doctoral researchers, and more than 50 PhD students. Members of the lab
are actively pursuing a variety of research initiatives, including machine
learning, decision-theoretic planning and learning, causal discovery,
multiagent systems, human-computer-interaction, natural language processing,
information retrieval, and computer vision.

Some of the things we have to offer:
* competitive pay and excellent benefits;
* very friendly, interactive and international working environment;
* new building located near the city center (10 minutes by bicycle) of one 
  of Europe's most beautiful and lively cities;
* access to high-end computing facilities (cluster with 4,000+ cores).

English is the working language within the Informatics Institute. Since
Amsterdam is a very international city where almost everybody speaks and
understands English, candidates need not be afraid of the language barrier.

Further information
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For further information, including instructions on submitting an application,
see the official job ad at:

http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/working-at-the-uva/vacancies/item/15-003.html

Informal inquiries can be made by email to Joris Mooij (j.m.mo...@uva.nl).


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Joris Mooij | Assistant Professor
Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group
Informatics Institute | University of Amsterdam
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Science Park 904 | 1098 XH Amsterdam
+31 (0)20.525.8426
http://jorismooij.nl/
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