Job Opportunity for Research Associate – Centre for Digital Transformation at IIM Ahmedabad in Ahmedabad

About the Organization

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad is a business school located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The school has been accorded the status of an Institute of National Importance by Ministry of Human Resources, Government of India in 2017.

Job Description

The position involves working on different research projects focused on the key issues related to digital transformation. The candidate will work with predefined projects with faculty supervisor/s. Responsibilities of the RA may include one or more of the following: data extraction or web scraping to create datasets, data science programming in Python, running large panel data models, literature review, and writing parts of manuscripts amongst other such activities involved in academic research publications. Applicants should be well-versed with the key ideas underlying digital technologies. The position requires the applicant to have research acumen as an essential qualification. ‘

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Candidates with a Ph.D. degree in management/ information systems/engineering/computer science/mathematics or social and economic related disciplines are preferred.
• Candidates should be proficient in the design of algorithms with their implementation in Python or R. They should be comfortable working with creating large datasets, analyzing, and visualizing them.
• Candidates should be well versed in secondary data analysis. Candidates proficient in running econometrics/statistics models are preferred. Prior experience working with panel datasets, and knowledge of Stata are desirable.
• Candidates who understand the scientific process, including being comfortable doing a literature review by reading and summarizing rigorous scientific research papers will be given preference.

How to apply

To apply, please send an email with a single consolidated Adobe acrobat pdf attachment including a cover letter, detailed CV, and abstract of the Ph.D. thesis to cdt-secretary@iima.ac.in with the subject: “Ph.D. RA: Centre for Digital “Ph.D. RA: Centre for Digital Transformation”. (Applications without the proper subject may not be considered). Please name your Adobe acrobat pdf attachment as <your-firstname.your-lastname>.pdf

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