Associate/Full Professor - Finance and Big Data Analytics
Syracuse University
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Posted: 15-Sep-21
Location: Syracuse, New York
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 86856
Job Description:
The finance department in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University invites applications for a full-time tenured/tenure track position in Finance with primary emphasis on applications of big data analytics to address outstanding issues in finance and business research at the rank of Associate/Full Professor beginning in mid-August 2022.
This recruitment is part of an ambitious Invest Syracuse Cluster Hire Initiative in the broad area of big data and business analytics. As an integral part of this investment, Syracuse University will recruit multiple candidates for faculty positions for a research cluster in the focus area of big data and business analytics. Faculty hired into these positions will build on our existing strengths in the focus area and will participate in an organized research cluster that spans multiple departments across the University.
The finance department is interested in scholars with expertise in big data analytics, a deep interest in finance in general, and, more specifically, in addressing important issues in finance using big data analytics. Potential subject areas include, but are not limited to: - analysis of very large data sets, such as trade and quote market microstructure data. - applications of machine learning and/or artificial intelligence in finance. - analysis of unstructured data, such as data from social media, webpages, government documents, satellites and geolocation sensors, with application to financial economics.
Syracuse University is a place where talent, desire, and opportunity thrive. In 12 different schools and colleges that span the liberal arts and professional disciplines, students, faculty, and staff from diverse backgrounds come together to learn, create, and break boundaries.
The University is also a vital part of the community, providing services as well as being a leader in employee benefits, work-life and organizational development, training, student employment, staff relations, and workforce diversity.
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