The Department of “Scienze Economico-Sociali e Matematico Statistiche" at Università di Torino, invites applications for a postdoctoral position in Statistics within the European Research Council (ERC) project “Nonparametric Bayes and empirical Bayes for species sampling problems: classical questions, new directions are related issues”. Details of the postdoctoral position are available at the bottom of this letter.

Deadline for applications: 8 OCTOBER 2019 at 1pm (Italian time).

Information for applicants are available (only in Italian) at the Call for Applications https://pica.cineca.it/unito/assegni-di-ricerca-unito-2019-iv/file/BANDO.pdf https://pica.cineca.it/unito/assegni-di-ricerca-unito-2019-iv/file/BANDO.pdf. Within the Call for Applications, the postdoctoral position appears at page 23 under the section “Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e Matematico-Statistiche”:

Postdoctoral position: “Statistica Bayesiana nonparametrica e Bayesiana nonparametrica empirica per problemi di stima di funzionali discreti” Reference code: ESOMAS.2019.07 Supervisor: Stefano Favaro

Applications are made only online - https://pica.cineca.it/unito/ https://pica.cineca.it/unito/ - by selecting “Your Applications” in the box “Bando Assegni di ricerca - Tornata IV 2019”, and then registering to the system. The application procedure is available in Italian/English, and it requires a CV, two reference letters and a research statement.

Prospective candidates may contact directly Stefano Favaro - stefano.favaro@unito.it mailto:stefano.favaro@unito.it - for information on the postdoctoral position and any assistance in the application procedure.

Best wishes

Stefano Favaro

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Prospective candidates are expected to have experience on nonparametric statistics, within the classical (frequentist) and/or Bayesian paradigm, and they should preferably be holding a Ph.D. or being close to receiving one. The research shall be carried out in English.

The duration of the contract is 24 months. Expected starting date in January 2020, but a different date may be arranged. The salary amounts to 46,000 Euros per year, including taxes and social charges, and considerable financial support to attend conferences and workshops will be granted. There are no teaching duties associated to the position.

Abstract. Object of research are species sampling problems, whose importance has grown considerably in recent years driven by numerous applications in the broad area of biosciences, and also in machine learning, theoretical computer science and information theory. Within the broad field of species sampling problems, the research will be focussed on two research themes: i) the study of nonparametric Bayes and nonparametric empirical Bayes methodologies for classical species sampling problems, generalized species sampling problems emerging in biological and physical sciences, and question thereof in the context of optimal design of species inventories; ii) the use of recent mathematical tools from the theory of differential privacy to study the fundamental tradeoff between privacy protection of information, which requires to release partial data, and Bayesian learning in species sampling problems, which requires accurate data to make inference.

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Stefano Favaro University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto http://sites.carloalberto.org/favaro/