Senior Research Associate (A2505)

We invite applications for a Post Doctoral Senior Research Associate position to work in the StatScale Programme. StatScale is an exciting collaboration between researchers at Lancaster University and the University of Cambridge. The programme will tackle the important inference challenges arising from streaming data. This multi-million pound research initiative is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the two participating institutions and a number of committed project partners.

The programme is led by Idris Eckley, Paul Fearnhead (Lancaster) and Richard Samworth, Rajen Shah (Cambridge). 

You should have a PhD in Statistics or a related discipline. You will be experienced in one of more of the following areas: anomaly detection; changepoint analysis; non-stationary time series analysis, high dimensional statistics, statistical-computational tradeoffs, signal processing, image analysis. Demonstrable ability to produce academic writing of the highest publishable quality is essential. 

This is a six month fixed term appointment commencing from 1 February 2019

Informal inquiries can be made by contacting Prof Idris Eckley i.eckley@lancaster.ac.uk

We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups.

Closing Date: 19 Dec 2018
Category: Research