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Assistant Professor of Business Analytics, Lazaridis School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University

  • 1.  Assistant Professor of Business Analytics, Lazaridis School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University

    Posted 09-19-2018 12:38
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    The Lazaridis School of Business & Economics (Lazaridis School) at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the Operations & Decision Sciences area, commencing July 1, 2019. This position is subject to budgetary approval.

    Qualifications for the position include a Ph.D. or completion of a PhD in Operations Research, Computer Science, Statistics or a related field within one year and strong records or promise in both research and teaching in core business analytics. Successful candidates for the position must have:

    • Demonstrated research potential on applications of data science to business and/or economics;
    • Ability (a) to publish in top-tier journals or proceedings and (b) to maintain a highly productive research agenda;
    • Ability to effectively teach core decision sciences and business analytics courses at the undergraduate and graduate (MBA, MSc, and PhD) levels;
    • Exceptional technical knowledge of data science fields such as machine learning and data visualization.

    The Lazaridis School of Business & Economics has over one hundred full-time faculty and more than five thousand undergraduate and graduate students on campuses in Waterloo and Brantford, and a location in Toronto, Ontario. With a mission to achieve excellence in management education, the school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, including Honours BBA, MBA, MFin, and PhD. Laurier's undergraduate and graduate business programs are AACSB accredited. For more information, please visit http://www.wlu.ca/lazaridisschool.

    Applicants should send a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a teaching statement, a research statement, and should arrange for at least three academic referees to submit reference letters to odsptac@wlu.ca. All applications must include the Position Number 2019-01, and should be addressed to Dr. Peter Carayannopoulos, Associate Dean of Business: Faculty Development & Research. Deadline for applications is November 25, 2018. For more information on the application procedure and the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics please view the attached job posting or click here.

     Representatives from the Operations & Decision Sciences Area will be attending INFORMS and DSI conferences. If you would like to arrange to meet to obtain further information on the position, please send an email to Dr. Mojtaba Araghi, Assistant Professor, ODS by October 26, 2018 using the email address maraghi@wlu.ca.

     



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    Mojtaba Araghi
    Assistant Professor
    Wilfrid Laurier University
    Waterloo ON
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