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Main Campus - Starkville, MS
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Mississippi - Main Campus
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Time-Limited Full-Time 12-Month
The National Strategic Planning & Analysis Research Center (NSPARC) at Mississippi State University is a trusted source for inspired research, advanced analytics, and software architecture and development. NSPARC conducts interdisciplinary work across workforce and economic development, education, health, human services, corrections, and related public-interest domains.
NSPARC seeks a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join an interdisciplinary team conducting applied research. The successful candidate will work with combinations of structured and unstructured data, including tabular and administrative records, longitudinal and time-series data, text, images, and other sensor or digital data, and translate research questions into reproducible analyses, validated models, scholarly products, and decision-support tools. The candidate will also design, develop, and evaluate artificial intelligence and machine learning methods for complex, multimodal datasets.
A central expectation of the position is to work closely with NSPARC research faculty and staff to contribute to the Center’s research portfolio through the development of new research ideas, preparation of research proposals and grant applications, and writing peer-reviewed publications. The candidate will also be encouraged to explore emerging research directions, help formulate research questions, and contribute to collaborative and interdisciplinary projects. The role is well suited to a researcher who can move fluently from research question formulation and exploration analysis to model development, rigorous evaluation, interpretation, and communication. The candidate will work closely with research faculty, scientists, software engineers, data professionals, and students to conduct interdisciplinary research, and explore emerging research directions, while demonstrating initiative and intellectual independence.