Assistant Research Scientist
General Description
PREP Post-Bachelors Researcher (US Citizen)
This position is part of the National Institute of Standards (NIST) Professional Research Experience (PREP) program. ... The work will entail:
Key responsibilities could include, but are not limited to, leading the following activities:
- Analyzing data
- Reviewing relevant literature
- Designing data collection instruments (surveys)
- Writing reports and research articles
- Publishing within refereed journals and technical research series
- Communicating research at professional conferences
Qualifications
- Must be a US citizen
- Bachelor's degree in Economics
- At least one year of relevant research experience
- Proficiency in Stata (hypothesis testing, causal analysis, data visualization)
- Proficiency in Zotero or similar
- Proficiency in Excel (large scale data cleaning, validation, and visualization)
- At least one peer-reviewed publication in a professional journal
- At least one first author technical publication
- Experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis
- At least one conference presentation
- Experience working with LLMs
- Proficiency in LaTeX (Overleaf)
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Logical thinking and problem solving
- Patience and attention to detail
- Excellent writing and communication skills
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