JOB: PDRA within OCEAN Project at Warwick (Deadline: August 20th)
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Adam M Johansen
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*Location: *University of Warwick Campus, Coventry
*Department:* Statistics
*Duration:* Fixed Term Contract for 21 months
*Salary:*£35,116 - £45,413 per annum
About the Role
*For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Gareth Roberts
(Professor) gareth.o...@warrwick.ac.uk*
Fixed term, full-time contracts of 21 months available from September
2025. Start date to be agreed with the successful candidate.
We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the
OCEAN project (On intelligenCE And Networks: Mathematical and
Algorithmic Foundations for Multi-Agent Decision-Making,
https://oceanerc.com/). This timely project will develop statistical and
algorithmic foundations for systems involving multiple incentive-driven
learning and decision-making agents, including uncertainty
quantification at the agent’s level. The project will bring together
ideas from Statistics, Probability, Statistical Machine Learning,
Statistics and Game Theory and is an ambitious 10M Euro project funded
by ERC (UK component from the UKRI funding guarantee), and led by 4PIs:
Gareth Roberts (Warwick), Eric Moulines (Ecole Polytechnique), Christian
Robert (Dauphine) and Michael Jordan (Berkeley).
About You
We are seeking to recruit a Research Fellow to join the team of
investigators led by Gareth Roberts. The successful applicant will be
based at Warwick but expected to work alongside other researchers from
Roberts’s team (including Adam Johansen at Warwick, Murray Pollock and
Hongsheng Dai at Newcastle University, and Louis Aslett at Durham
University), as well as researchers from the teams in Paris and
Berkeley. They will participate in the many collaborative activities of
OCEAN, while also enjoying the vibrant research environment of the
Warwick Computational Statistics and Machine Learning group.
We encourage applications in all areas of the foundations, theory and
methodology of Computational Statistics or Machine Learning. Previous
knowledge of statistical privacy, distributed inference, and/or game
theory would be useful, but are not expected.
You should have, or be close to completing, a PhD in Statistics,
Probability, Machine Learning or a closely related discipline. You will
work directly with the investigators to undertake and support research
necessary to achieve the aims within this grant: foundational
improvements in inference at scale and related goals. This will include,
for example, publishing in leading methodological (and perhaps
application domain)journals, presentation of research at workshops and
conferences, developing and implementing new statistical methods, and
active involvement in project meetings. You will be experienced in one
or more of the following areas: Statistics, Computational Statistics,
Theory and methodology of Stochastic Algorithms, High-Performance
Computing, and Machine Learning. You will have demonstrated the ability
to develop new statistical or machine learning methodology. We are
particularly keen to encourage applicants with strong computational and
mathematical skills, as part of a team of researchers with skills that
cover theoretical, methodological, and applied statistics. A
demonstrable ability to produce academic writing of the highest
publishable quality is essential.
Candidates who are considering making an application are strongly
encouraged to contact Professor Gareth Roberts
(gareth.o...@warwick.ac.uk).
For further information regarding the skills required for this role
please see the personal specification section of the attached job
description.
If you are near submission or have recently submitted your PhD but have
not yet had it conferred, any offers of employment will be made as
Research Assistant at the top of level 5 of the University grade
structure
<https://warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/internal/payroll/salscalescurrent/current/>.
Upon receipt of evidence of the successful award of your PhD, you will
be promoted to Research Fellow on the first point of level 6 of the
University grade structure
<https://warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/internal/payroll/salscalescurrent/current/>.
About the Department
The Department of Statistics is committed to promoting equality and
diversity, holding an Athena SWAN Silver award which demonstrates this
commitment. We welcome applicants from all sections of the community and
will give due consideration to applicants seeking flexible working
patterns, and to those who have taken a career break. Further
information about working at the University of Warwick, including
information about childcare provision, career development and relocation
is at https://warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/workinghere/
<https://warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/workinghere/>
About the University
Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and
collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading
research-intensive university with the highest academic and research
standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the
world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be
‘world leading or internationally excellent’**.
You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community
committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you
opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy
and determination to succeed.
*QS World University Rankings 2024
** Research Excellence Framework 2021
To find out more about us visit our
Application Process
*CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 20th August 2025 at 23:55 (BST)*
To apply, please visit:
https://warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre-ext/brand-4/spa-1/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/3/opp/3112-Research-Fellow-107741-0725/en-GB
* Your *CV* should include your employment history (including your
most recent employment), your education history, and any other
relevant experience.
* Your *cover letter* should explain your *motivations for
applying* to the role. It should also explain, using examples, how
you meet each of the *essential and desirable criteria* detailed in
the Job Description PDF document below. Please note that all
essential criteria must be met by candidates who are invited to
interview.
Please see here
<https://warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/workwithus/howtoapply/cover_letter_guide__university_of_warwick.pdf> for
guidance on writing a cover letter. We *highly recommend* using
individual criteria as headers and explaining below, using examples, how
you meet the criterion, though you are free to format the letter as you
wish.
--
Prof. Adam M. Johansen, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL
We stand with Ukraine.
*Department:* Statistics
*Duration:* Fixed Term Contract for 21 months
*Salary:*£35,116 - £45,413 per annum
About the Role
*For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Gareth Roberts
(Professor) gareth.o...@warrwick.ac.uk*
Fixed term, full-time contracts of 21 months available from September
2025. Start date to be agreed with the successful candidate.
We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the
OCEAN project (On intelligenCE And Networks: Mathematical and
Algorithmic Foundations for Multi-Agent Decision-Making,
https://oceanerc.com/). This timely project will develop statistical and
algorithmic foundations for systems involving multiple incentive-driven
learning and decision-making agents, including uncertainty
quantification at the agent’s level. The project will bring together
ideas from Statistics, Probability, Statistical Machine Learning,
Statistics and Game Theory and is an ambitious 10M Euro project funded
by ERC (UK component from the UKRI funding guarantee), and led by 4PIs:
Gareth Roberts (Warwick), Eric Moulines (Ecole Polytechnique), Christian
Robert (Dauphine) and Michael Jordan (Berkeley).
About You
We are seeking to recruit a Research Fellow to join the team of
investigators led by Gareth Roberts. The successful applicant will be
based at Warwick but expected to work alongside other researchers from
Roberts’s team (including Adam Johansen at Warwick, Murray Pollock and
Hongsheng Dai at Newcastle University, and Louis Aslett at Durham
University), as well as researchers from the teams in Paris and
Berkeley. They will participate in the many collaborative activities of
OCEAN, while also enjoying the vibrant research environment of the
Warwick Computational Statistics and Machine Learning group.
We encourage applications in all areas of the foundations, theory and
methodology of Computational Statistics or Machine Learning. Previous
knowledge of statistical privacy, distributed inference, and/or game
theory would be useful, but are not expected.
You should have, or be close to completing, a PhD in Statistics,
Probability, Machine Learning or a closely related discipline. You will
work directly with the investigators to undertake and support research
necessary to achieve the aims within this grant: foundational
improvements in inference at scale and related goals. This will include,
for example, publishing in leading methodological (and perhaps
application domain)journals, presentation of research at workshops and
conferences, developing and implementing new statistical methods, and
active involvement in project meetings. You will be experienced in one
or more of the following areas: Statistics, Computational Statistics,
Theory and methodology of Stochastic Algorithms, High-Performance
Computing, and Machine Learning. You will have demonstrated the ability
to develop new statistical or machine learning methodology. We are
particularly keen to encourage applicants with strong computational and
mathematical skills, as part of a team of researchers with skills that
cover theoretical, methodological, and applied statistics. A
demonstrable ability to produce academic writing of the highest
publishable quality is essential.
Candidates who are considering making an application are strongly
encouraged to contact Professor Gareth Roberts
(gareth.o...@warwick.ac.uk).
For further information regarding the skills required for this role
please see the personal specification section of the attached job
description.
If you are near submission or have recently submitted your PhD but have
not yet had it conferred, any offers of employment will be made as
Research Assistant at the top of level 5 of the University grade
structure
<https://warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/internal/payroll/salscalescurrent/current/>.
Upon receipt of evidence of the successful award of your PhD, you will
be promoted to Research Fellow on the first point of level 6 of the
University grade structure
<https://warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/internal/payroll/salscalescurrent/current/>.
About the Department
The Department of Statistics is committed to promoting equality and
diversity, holding an Athena SWAN Silver award which demonstrates this
commitment. We welcome applicants from all sections of the community and
will give due consideration to applicants seeking flexible working
patterns, and to those who have taken a career break. Further
information about working at the University of Warwick, including
information about childcare provision, career development and relocation
is at https://warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/workinghere/
<https://warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/workinghere/>
About the University
Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and
collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading
research-intensive university with the highest academic and research
standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the
world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be
‘world leading or internationally excellent’**.
You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community
committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you
opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy
and determination to succeed.
*QS World University Rankings 2024
** Research Excellence Framework 2021
To find out more about us visit our
Application Process
*CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 20th August 2025 at 23:55 (BST)*
To apply, please visit:
https://warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre-ext/brand-4/spa-1/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/3/opp/3112-Research-Fellow-107741-0725/en-GB
* Your *CV* should include your employment history (including your
most recent employment), your education history, and any other
relevant experience.
* Your *cover letter* should explain your *motivations for
applying* to the role. It should also explain, using examples, how
you meet each of the *essential and desirable criteria* detailed in
the Job Description PDF document below. Please note that all
essential criteria must be met by candidates who are invited to
interview.
Please see here
<https://warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/workwithus/howtoapply/cover_letter_guide__university_of_warwick.pdf> for
guidance on writing a cover letter. We *highly recommend* using
individual criteria as headers and explaining below, using examples, how
you meet the criterion, though you are free to format the letter as you
wish.
--
Prof. Adam M. Johansen, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL
We stand with Ukraine.
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