Research Assistant

Job Description

• We are looking for applicants to fill in a two-year Research Assistant position in a United Arab Emirates University funded project “The Adoption of AI and Digital Technology Innovations in Emirates Media Industry and Its Impacts on Newsrooms and Journalists’ Performance: Developing an Index of Media Innovation.” Selected candidate will collaborate with the members of research groups on research in a wide range of topics in the foundations and applications of AI adoaptation in Newsrooms in the UAE. General responsibilities:
• Conduct literature reviews
• Collect and analyze data
• Prepare interview questions
• Maintain accurate records of interviews, safeguarding the confidentiality of subjects, as necessary
• Summarize interviews.
• Manage and respond to project related email
• Prepare, maintain, and update website materials
• Maintaining records on assignment completion, acting as liaison/mediator between the undergraduate students and PI)
• Arrange and/or attend project meetings
• Attend area seminars and other meetings as necessary
• Summarize project results
• Prepare progress reports for the PI
• Prepare other articles, reports, spreadsheets, posters and presentations
• Assisting with statistical data analysis and generating correspondence, reports and graphics
• Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned by PI
• Time management skills to meet the project deadlines. Specific responsibilities:
• Designing, developing, and researching Machine Learning systems, models, and schemes.
• Studying, transforming, and converting data science prototypes.
• Searching and selecting appropriate data sets.
• Performing statistical analysis and using results to improve models.
• Participate in the establishment of future research directions and contribute to group grant proposals.
• Document research by publishing papers in high-quality journal and conferences.
• Collaborate with research group members on research projects
• Direct Interview arrangement and related information and quantitative/qualitative data analysis.
• Analyze and interpret the results using computational software (e.g., SPSS, Smart Pls, Excel, GIS).
• Generate advanced graphs to illustrate the results.
• Assist in writing the research paper (advanced English skills are desired), communicate and disseminate the work.
• Carry out large scale psycholinguistic experiments to validate the frequency statistics of the database.
• Perform other related duties as assigned

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