Stellenangebot

Ihre Aufgaben

Starting July 2024 (or later), and for a duration of 3 years (possibility to extend), Professor Markus Loecher at HWR Berlin is looking for a PhD candidate interested in the intersection of causal ML and explainable AI!

(pay grade 13 TV-L Berlin, with 66% of the regular weekly working hours)

Your tasks:

• Advance current methods in causal ML such as double ML, honest trees, causal Shapley values, heterogeneous treatment effects, conditional feature attribution methods.

• Research and improve the role of XAI methods in causal ML.

• Seek cooperation with partners in the industry or research institutions.

• Publish in international, peer-reviewed journals and on conferences.

• Teaching load of 2.64 semester hours per week in the field of quantitative methods or statistics or economics or mathematics or business informatics.

Ihr Profil

• A master's degree at a university or university of applied sciences in statistics, (business) informatics, economics or mathematics;

• Demonstrated competencies in machine learning, data science or econometrics.

• Strong background in data analysis, quantitative research and statistical reasoning.

• High intrinsic motivation and independence, ability to work with others.

• Excellent programming skills in R or python.

• Very good communication and organisational skills (in English; German is desirable)

Kontakt

If interested, please contact me at markus.loecher@hwr-berlin.de