PHD POSITION IN STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE

☞ KU Leuven

Aussicht: 135

Update Tag: 16-11-2025

Ort: Leuven Flemish Brabant

Kategorie: Marketing / PR

Industrie: Onderwijs

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Jobinhalt

The section of statistics and data science of the mathematics department at KU Leuven is active in a variety of research topics. We conduct research on robust statistical methods, classification and clustering techniques, visualization, and statistical learning. We regularly collaborate with international academics, practitioners from different scientific fields, and companies to apply our methods to data from engineering, chemometrics, biology, finance, insurance, marketing and more. See our website for publications and software: http://wis.kuleuven.be/statdatascience/robust

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Depending on your interests and motivation, your work will be on the development of one or several of our current research topics:

  • methods for reliable analysis of (ultra) high-dimensional heterogeneous data by means of linear models, generalized linear models, principal component analysis, classification, graphical models and others;
  • methods for anomaly detection;
  • robust statistical learning;
  • robust methods for functional data;
  • applications of new methods and techniques in the fields of chemometrics, insurance, fraud detection, and creditrisk in collaboration with experts from the field;
Profile
You have a master degree in mathematics, statistics, data science, or engineering or an equivalent degree, with at least the grade of distinction;
You have a good knowledge of English, both spoken and written.
Offer
We offer a position as PhD student which is initially for one year, but will be renewed three times after a positive evaluation.
Interested?
For more information please contact Prof. dr. Stefan Van Aelst, tel.: +32 16 37 23 83, mail: stefan.vanaelst@kuleuven.be.

You can apply for this job no later than October 15, 2021 via the online application tool

KU Leuven seeks to foster an environment where all talents can flourish, regardless of gender, age, cultural background, nationality or impairments. If you have any questions relating to accessibility or support, please contact us at diversiteit.HR@kuleuven.be.
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Frist: 31-12-2025

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