Senior Research Assistant (Full-time) – Department of Mathematics, Statistics

The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK) is a non-profit private liberal-arts-oriented university with five Schools (Business, Communication, Decision Sciences, Humanities and Social Science, and Translation and Foreign Languages) and over 6,000 full-time students. Adopting the unique “Liberal + Professional” education model, HSUHK aims to nurture young talents with critical thinking, innovative minds, caring attitudes, moral values and social responsibility.

Aspiring to be a leading private university in the region, HSUHK features a primary focus on undergraduate education, top-quality faculty members, award-winning green campus facilities, innovative degree programmes, unique residential college system combining living and learning, interactive small class teaching, very close student-teacher relationship, RGC-funded impactful research, and excellent student development/support services. HSUHK is listed the 7th (overall) in the ASEAN+ region, the 1st in the Greater China region, and the 1st in Employability as per the 2023 AppliedHE ASEAN+ private university assessment by the Singapore-based AppliedHE. It is also listed among the top 200 worldwide on “Quality Education” and “Decent Work and Economic Growth” in the Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2021.

The University now invites application for the Research project “Generalized Fiducial Inference and Model Selection on Multiple Change-point Detection in Autoregressive Time Series”, funded by the Research Grants Council:

Senior Research Assistant (Full-time) – Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Insurance (Ref: SRA (MSI - UGC/FDS14/P05/22) 2024-11-01)

The appointee will assist the project leader in conducting research in the field of statistics.  Research duties include, but are not limited to, literature review, model building, statistical programming, and conducting simulation studies.

Applicants should:

• possess a master’s degree, preferably with a doctoral degree, in Statistics, Mathematics, or related disciplines;
• preferably have experience in time series techniques and statistical simulation;
• be proficient in programming languages such as R;
• have a good command of written and spoken English and Chinese; and
• be able to work independently.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Interested applicant should visit this link https://recruit.hsu.edu.hk/ and apply on or before 17 November 2024.  Review of applications will begin soon until the position is filled.  The University reserves the right not to fill the position in this exercise.

Applicants who are not invited to an interview within three months may consider their applications unsuccessful.  All information received will be treated in strict confidence, and the data collected will be used for recruitment purposes only.  The Personal Information Collection Statement will be provided upon request.

The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong is an equal opportunity employer.