Statistician Research Assistantship

Description
The Illinois Hub for Innovation in Brand Communication and Advertising Technology (HIBCAT) is seeking a qualified graduate research assistant (GRA) with experience in working with large consumer and media data sets and predictive modeling and time-series forecasting.

HIBCAT
The Hub for Innovation in Brand Communication and Advertising Technology (HIBCAT) is a partnership between the College of Media, Siebel Center for Design, and Technology Services. The Hub will establish a center of excellence in data driven strategic brand communication and advertising technology. The new Hub will integrate resources for faculty research, student learning, and community engagement. As a collaborative research platform, the center will develop a model for experiential and team-based learning centered around design thinking and innovation.

Responsibilities

·       Analyze and develop predictive models with large media and consumer data sets for digital marketing and brand management.

·       Participate and support academic research and publication activities at the HIBCAT 

·       Working closely with the data engineers and system developers in application development

Qualifications

·       Students seeking advanced degrees in Communication science, Statistics, Business and financial analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related quantitative field

·       Applied knowledge in:

• ·       Time-series forecasting, signal detection, and Markov analysis,
• ·       Big data analytics and Machine learning

·       Proficiency in R, Python (Scikit-learn, Pandas, Numpy)

·       Working knowledge of textual data analytics, natural language processing, and topic modeling, are a plus