Data Scientist – PhD Computer Science, Recommender Systems, NLP, Machine Learning, Java

Elsevier is in the midst of a TRANSFORMATION and TECHNOLOGY is simultaneously at the FOREFRONT and the DRIVING FORCE. Our innovative technology platforms and smart content solutions operate at the cutting edge of big data, semantic web and cloud technology, enabling faster more effective critical decision-making daily across the globe.

Product

Mendeley is part of Elsevier. Mendeley is changing the way research is done. We are mission led with a strong commitment to providing the best tools to help researchers and scientists do their work. We’ve built a global research collaboration platform, reference management tool and open research database.

The Role

We are looking for a Data Scientist whose main responsibilities are to research, develop and evaluate algorithms in order to build software tools for researchers. You will contribute to building systems that help researchers to organise their research, contextualise it with respect to other research, collaborate with one another, and discover new research.

Responsibilities:

1. Research, develop and evaluate algorithms for use in Mendeley’s software tools.
2. Demonstrate how well these algorithms perform when applied to real data.
3. Work with engineering teams to deliver algorithms in production environments.

What you’ll be doing:

1. Identify, obtain and prepare data sets for training and testing algorithms.
2. Research, develop and evaluate algorithms for systems such as recommender and information extraction systems.
3. Build proof of concept prototypes demonstrating these algorithms in action.
4. Evaluate algorithms through controlled offline and online experiments.
5. Work with engineering teams to guide prototypes through to production, making reliable/scalable systems.
6. Manipulate large scale data (data cleaning, data normalisation, data linkage).

Company:

Elsevier

Qualifications:

What you should bring:

1. Strong research and development experience in industry and/or academia.
2. Hold an MSc, preferably PhD, in Computer Science.
3. Experience working with large graph/network data sets, with rich textual content.
4. Experience of Java programming; can independently prototype solutions to problems.
5. Experience with Recommender System, NLP and Machine Learning libraries.
6. Experience with big data technologies (e.g. Hadoop, MapReduce, Cascading, Scalding, Scala) is desirable but not required.
7. Unix skills.
8. Experience with start-up and R&D environments.
9. Strong presentation skills in communicating with experts and novices.

Language requirements:

Fluent spoken and written English.

Educational level:

Master Degree.

Please mention NLP People as a source when applying.

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