[Job-offers-cs] Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Research Professors at Center for Data Science for Enterprise & Society at Cornell University
Pekka Orponen
pekka.orponen at aalto.fi
Sat Nov 29 18:05:36 EET 2025
RECRUITING FOR *TWO TYPES OF POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS* AT THE *CENTER FOR
DATA SCIENCE FOR ENTERPRISE & SOCIETY AT **CORNELL* *UNIVERSITY**.*
1.
MAXWELL POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS - joint with ENGINEERING INNOVATIONS IN
MEDICINE - FULL CONSIDERATION DATE: *DECEMBER 10, 2025*
2.
ASSISTANT RESEARCH PROFESSORS/POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
- FULL CONSIDERATION DATE: *JANUARY 19, 2026*
SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS ON THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THESE TWO OPPORTUNITIES
_<https://datasciencecenter.cornell.edu/>_
*HIRING: Maxwell Postdoctoral Fellows*
*Engineering Innovations in Medicine (EIM) &**
**The Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society **
**Cornell University *
/REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS WILL BEGIN 12.10.2025/
In conjunction with Cornell's Engineering Innovations in Medicine (EIM)
initiative and the School of Operations Research and Information
Engineering, the Center for Data Science for Enterprise & Society at
Cornell University seeks to recruit Maxwell Postdoctoral Fellows; *these
are one- or two-year postdoctoral positions that were made possible by
the gift of alumnus Dev Joneja, PhD '89. Maxwell Fellows provide a
bridge to enhance collaboration among faculty developing cutting edge
tools in data science and in biomedical research, potentially spanning
the Cornell College of Engineering, Weill Cornell Medicine, and Cornell
Tech.*
The goal of the Engineering Innovations in Medicine initiative is to
advance biological discovery, develop new diagnostic tools, and deploy
new therapeutics by integrating data science, engineering, and medicine.
Specifically, the mission is to pioneer cutting-edge engineering
principles that will fundamentally change the way biomedical data is
acquired, computed, and used and to develop, validate, and implement
new, data-driven decision-making approaches to advance human health.
Maxwell Fellows will engage in deeply interdisciplinary research
developing and deploying methods from AI, statistics, or operations
research to address challenges in medicine or biotechnology.
The Center for Data Science for Enterprise & Society aims to unify
programs and curricula in data science across a wide spectrum of
application domains, including computational social science (e.g.,
sociology and government), the economics/computer science interface, the
aspects of digital agriculture in the production and management of
agriculture, digital platforms supporting urban infrastructure (e.g.,
the sharing economy), and as a theme that is cross-cutting in many of
these areas, the corresponding issues of privacy, security, and
fairness. The areas highlighted are meant to serve only as illustrative;
*/candidates for the Maxwell postdoctoral Fellowship are sought/ /from
all areas of research that advance the state of the art in data science
and the health sciences, extending the reach of data-driven research
into novel medical application domains/. *
To illustrate the desired interdisciplinary nature of the research, one
example project could be AI methods for developing personalized cancer
combination therapies, wherein combinations of chemotherapy drugs are
chosen based on adaptively-chosen cell viability experiments and genomic
testing performed in the lab on cells taken from a cancer patient. An AI
method would use published research and historical data to guide
experimentation toward quickly identifying a safe and effective
combination of drugs for the patient. Success in such a project would
require a working knowledge of concepts from biology, common
experimentation workflows, and the ability to read related scientific
papers on cancer combination therapy. It would also require expertise in
relevant AI methodology, such as deep learning architectures for
property prediction in chemistry and biology, approaches for extracting
relevant information from foundation models, and/or methods for adaptive
experimental design such as active learning or Bayesian optimization.
Applicants should submit their curriculum vitae (CV) and research
statement summarizing their accomplishments to date; they must also
submit a two-page description of proposed research for the period to be
spent at the Center, including two proposed faculty mentors at Cornell;
these can be any Cornell faculty members, and collectively have
expertise that span both some relevant area from a health
science/biomedical technology domain as well as a core data science
domain (typically, one for the former domain and one for the latter);
two letters of recommendation as well as a letter of support from each
Cornell faculty mentor. /Applicants must contact the appropriate faculty
directly in advance to ensure their support of their application./
Candidates will be required to show proof of their Ph.D. prior to the
start of this position, and to have already done substantial research in
areas relevant to the Center and their research proposal.
*For full consideration, applications should be completed by
December 10, 2025. Offers will be made to accommodate a start date
within the calendar year 2026, potentially as early as January 16, 2026. *
*Applications should be submitted on AJO at:
**_academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30973
<https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30973>_*
*_Learn more about the William L. Maxwell Postdoctoral Fellows
<https://datasciencecenter.cornell.edu/professorship-program/>_*
*
Assistant Research Professors and Postdoctoral Fellows*
*Center for Data Science for Enterprise & Society *
*Cornell University **
*
*Application Deadline: January 19, 2026 *(/for full consideration)/
The Center for Data Science for Enterprise & Society at Cornell
University seeks to recruit multiple candidates to be hired as Assistant
Research Professors or Postdoctoral Fellows; these are 3-year
non-tenure-track positions that are funded through the Center with
support from the College of Engineering, the Bowers College of Computing
and Information Science, and Cornell Tech at Cornell University. The
first cohort recruited for this program started in academic year
2021-2022.
This Center aims to unify programs and curricula in data science with an
initial emphasis on questions grounded in data that are generated by
human activity, including computational social science (e.g.,
algorithmic accountability and the interplay of data science with
policy, law, and institutions), the economics/computer science
interface (e.g., markets and mechanism design, auction design, or the
study of voting mechanisms), AI & health (e.g., wearables and
clinical/public-health data to support mental and physical health), the
aspects of digital agriculture in the production and management of
agriculture (e.g., managing the food supply chain), digital platforms
for urban infrastructure (e.g., micromobility and curb management,
heat-wave adaptation, digital twins for housing and code enforcement),
and as a theme that is cross-cutting in many of these areas, the
corresponding issues of privacy, security, and fairness. The areas
highlighted are meant to serve only as illustrative; */candidates for
these Assistant Research Professorships are sought/* */from all areas of
research that advance the state of the art in data science, extending
the reach of data-driven research into novel application domains/. *
The application should include the following elements.
(1) a cover letter
(2) a publication list (3) a CV;
(4) a research statement summarizing accomplishments to date
(5) a plan of proposed research for the duration of the position working
together with your proposed mentors;
(6) at least two letters of recommendation from faculty who know your
work well;
(7) letters of support from (at least) two Cornell faculty members who
are proposed as faculty mentors (where the letters should be received by
January 19, 2026).
The proposed faculty mentors at Cornell should collectively have
expertise in a core data science domain as well as an application
domain, and should be drawn from at least two of the following Cornell
units: the College of Engineering, the Bowers College of Computing and
Information Science, and Cornell Tech; exceptional cases with mentors
from other units will also be considered/. /Faculty mentors can be
either on the Ithaca campus or at Cornell Tech in New York City;
however, appointments for applicants must be at least 50% in Ithaca, and
will be split between the campuses (either 50/50 or 80/20) only if at
least one of the mentors is at Cornell Tech. Candidates are expected to
have completed their Ph.D. prior to the start of this position, and to
have already done substantial research in areas relevant to the Center.
*Review of applications will begin on January 19, 2026, and continue
until the positions have been filled.*
*Apply on AJO: **_academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31255
<https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31255>_*
*More
information: **_datasciencecenter.cornell.edu/professorship-program
<https://datasciencecenter.cornell.edu/professorship-program/>_*
*_Frequently Asked Questions
<https://datasciencecenter.cornell.edu/frequently-asked-questions/>_*_
<https://datasciencecenter.cornell.edu/frequently-asked-questions/>_
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David Shmoys
Ithaca NY
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