March 2016 - change - Mailing Lists

Post-Doc Position at Stanford WTO
by Yosem Companys 05 Mar '16

05 Mar '16

From: Pamela Hinds <phinds(a)stanford.edu> ************************************************************************************* Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Center for Work, Technology, and Organizations Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University ************************************************************************************* The Center for Work, Technology and Organizations seeks a full-time Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Ph.D. training in Organizational Behavior, Organizational Theory, Management, or related disciplines. A successful candidate will have conducted research, broadly, on topics related to work, especially modern-day work. A strong theoretical foundation and evidence of the ability to publish in top management journals are preferred. The fellow will be expected to be an active participant in Center lab meetings and colloquia and to mentor Ph.D. students. There are no formal research or teaching requirements. § The purpose of the post-doctoral fellowship is to contribute to the WTO intellectual environment as well as provide a context in which the fellow can advance their own research agenda § Funded 100% for 2-3 years § Active participation in the WTO and Stanford academic communities expected § Salary is commensurate with experience and background, and includes the full Stanford University benefit package § Fellowship is open Fall 2016, applications accepted now until post is filled The fellow will be supervised by Pamela Hinds, Professor of Management Science & Engineering and Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organizations. To apply, please send a CV, a cover letter outlining the candidate’s interests, and the names and contact information of 3 references. Please send materials via email to Melissa Valentine ( mav(a)stanford.edu) or Pamela Hinds (phinds(a)stanford.edu) with WTO Post Doc in the message line with the noted items attached. Pamela Hinds Professor Department of Management Science & Engineering Stanford University Huang Engineering Center, #207 phinds(a)stanford.edu

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Fwd: [dub] Part time paid Android developer opportunity
by Trevor Perrier 04 Mar '16

04 Mar '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kristin N Dew <kndew(a)uw.edu> Date: Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:55 AM Subject: [dub] Part time paid Android developer opportunity To: dub(a)dub.washington.edu Greetings! We have an opening for a very part time (approx. 5-10 hours per week) Android developer on an HIV-related mobile health project in Kenya in conjunction with the Dept. of Global Health. The project, called Safer Conception Intervention for Partners (SCIP), is targeted at helping HIV serodiscordant couples -- or couples in which one partner has HIV and one does not -- conceive a child without transmitting the virus. The mHealth part of the study comprises an SMS component and an in-clinic tablet application to facilitate conception counselling sessions. The app is already built so this is mostly maintenance and updating as the need arises. This is a paid position, but not a full RA appointment. If interested, please contact me directly with a copy of your CV, a brief summary of your Android experience, and of course any questions you may have: kndew(a)uw.edu Kristin -- *Kristin Dew, PhD student, Human Centered Design & Engineering* *Research Assistant, Safer Conception Intervention for Partners, Dept. of Human Centered Design & Engineering and Dept. of Global Health* *Research Coordinator, TransPHorm: Machine Translation of Public Health Information, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, University of Washington School of Public Health* _______________________________________________ dub mailing list dub(a)dub.washington.edu http://dubber.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dub

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Digital Financial Services Postdoc Available at University of Washington
by Richard Anderson 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

Postdoc available at University of Washington As part of a BMGF-funded project in Digital Financial Services, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate. The Digital Financial Services Research Group was formed to investigate technologies that will improve the ability of banks and mobile operators to deploy digital financial products that reach the poor. The research group is led by Professor Richard Anderson and includes Professors Yoshi Kohno, Franzi Roesner, and Kurtis Heimerl in Computer Science and Engineering, and Professor Josh Blumenstock in the School of Information. The project aims to develop and deploy technological solutions to specific challenges that impede the introduction and wide scale deployment of these financial products. Low profitability, lack of client demand, and the outright failure of many DFS launches can be traced back to difficult barriers and frictions that hinder the business model and scalability of DFS systems. Challenges that have been identified include fraud and cyberattacks, network failures, the proximity payments user experience, managing identity and on-boarding, the lack of analytics for product development and risk scoring, agent management, and financial education for end users. The Research Associate will conduct research and coordinate numerous activities for the research group. Activities include, but are not limited to: developing a toolkit that makes artifacts from this project available externally for additional testing and possible adoption, monitoring and coordinating student research projects, developing external partnerships, designing evaluation studies, writing research papers, and promoting the results of the project. The candidate must hold a PhD in Computer Science/Engineering or closely related field, ideally, with an emphasis on information and communication technologies for resource-constrained environments, or in lieu, thereof, a demonstrated interest in the discipline. The candidate should have a strong publication record with specific research experience in one or more of the following fields: Mobile Computing, Software Engineering, Computer Security, Human Computer Interaction, Data Science, Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD). The postdoc position is available September 1, 2016. This position could be an opportunity for a new PhD in a traditional area of computing, such as HCI or Security to begin work in ICTD, and could fit with career plans in either academia or the NGO sector. If you are interested in applying for this position, please send a cover letter, CV, and two letters of reference to Richard Anderson (anderson(a)cs.washington.edu<mailto:anderson@cs.washington.edu>) by April 15, 2016.

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Tomorrow at Change: Sam Clark - InSiliccoVA a verbal autopsy tool
by Trevor Perrier 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

Please join us tomorrow of the last Change Seminar of winter quarter. Professor Sam Clark from the UW Sociology Department will be talking InSilicoVA. A new tool to help classify cause of death through verbal autopsy. *What:* Sam Clark: InSiliccoVA a verbal autopsy tool. *When:* Tuesday, March 1 at 12pm *Where:* The Allen Center, CSE 203 *Abstract:* In regions without complete-coverage civil registration and vital statistics systems there is uncertainty about even the most basic demographic indicators. In such areas the majority of deaths occur outside hospitals and are not recorded. Worldwide, fewer than one-third of deaths are assigned a cause, with the least information available from the most impoverished nations. In populations like this, verbal autopsy (VA) is a commonly used tool to assess cause of death and estimate cause-specific mortality rates and the distribution of deaths by cause. VA uses an interview with caregivers of the decedent to elicit data describing the signs and symptoms leading up to the death. We develop a new statistical tool known as InSilicoVA to classify cause of death using information acquired through VA. InSilicoVA shares uncertainty between cause of death assignments for specific individuals and the distribution of deaths by cause across the population. Using side-by-side comparisons with both observed and simulated data, we demonstrate that InSilicoVA has distinct advantages compared to currently available methods.

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