Project staff member (PhD Position) or Assistant Professor (postdoctoral Project Staff Member)
- Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Research, development, teaching
- Part time
- published till: 18.12.2024
Institute for Retailing & Data Science
Part-time, 30 hours/week
Starting January 01, 2025, and ending after 4 years (PhD position) or 2.5 years (Assistant Professor position)
What to expect
The research for this position focuses on integrating symbolic and sub-symbolic AI methods to enhance interpretability and decision-making in AI systems. Potential topics include:
- Combining dense vector representations with knowledge graphs for applications such as recommender systems, retail management, and fraud detection, enhancing transparency through structured, symbolic relationships between entities.
- Applying causal inference with contextual embeddings to assess the impact of marketing actions, providing rule-based, interpretable insights into customer behavior and strategy effectiveness.
- Creating explainable AI methods to align targeting policies with GDPR regulations, making AI-driven decisions more transparent and understandable for consumers.
- Developing brand-specific representations in shared embedding spaces to adapt AI-generated content across modalities, ensuring coherence with brand identity in marketing strategies.
What you have to offer
- Machine learning and data science
- Embedding techniques and neural networks
- Quantitative marketing, econometrics, or applied statistics
- Causal inference and explainable AI
- Recommender systems or other relevant areas of marketing analytics
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Graph theory, knowledge graphs, or decision support systems
- Multimodal content generation
What we offer you
- Inspiring campus life with over 2,400 employees in research, teaching, and administration and approximately 21,500 students
- A modern campus with spectacular architecture in the heart of Vienna
- Excellent accessibility by public transportation
- Meaningful work in an open-minded, inclusive, and family-friendly environment
- Flexible working hours
- A wide range of benefits, from an in-house medical officer to athletic activities and a meal allowance to a variety of employee discounts
The minimum monthly gross salary amounts to €2,684.10 for the PhD position (14 times per year). This salary may be adjusted based on job-related prior work experience. The minimum monthly gross salary amounts to 3,564.23 for the Assistant Professor position (14 times per year). This salary may be adjusted based on equivalent prior work experience (post doc). In addition, we offer a wide range of attractive social benefits.
Do you want to join the WU team?
Then please submit your application by December 18, 2024 (ID 2256).
We are looking forward to hearing from you!