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The Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine offers three dynamic MBA programs – plus PhD, specialty masters and undergraduate business degrees – that prepare business leaders for our digitally driven world. Through our programs, students acquire the exceptional ability to grow their organizations through strategic innovation, analytical decision-making, digital information technology and collaborative execution. While the Merage School is relatively young, it has quickly grown to rank consistently among the top five percent of all business programs worldwide through exceptional student recruitment, world-class faculty, a strong alumni network and close relationships with both individual business executives and global corporations. 

The Research Assistant (RA) will support a study to better understand gender differences in AI adoption and its consequences in the space of open source software which are funded from a grant from Microsoft. This work is in an advanced stage, and currently, we have some tasks to better understand mentorship in open collaboration communities. As such, the RA will assist with preparing datasets containing mentorship patterns from sources such as GitHub, the Linux-Foundation, and others. This position is advertised for a quarter (with the possibility of extension).

Position Summary

  • Prepare empirical datasets by parsing unstructured data to extract mentorship relationships 
  • Data enrichment (e.g. adding covariates to a panel dataset)
  • Data linkage of large-scale datasets (containing information on gender) and establishing crosswalks (for individual contributors and firms)

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Economics (or related field)
  • Experience working with large-scale data
  • Experience with scripting languages for data transformation and analysis (e.g. Python, SQL, R, JavaScript)
  • Ability to provide work at specified deadlines, clearly document work

Preferred Qualifications

  • Adv. degree (M.Sc. or higher) in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Economics (or related)
  • Work experience as a data scientist (in open source software, mentorship or related data science work)
  • Experience with network analysis (e.g. setting up a network panel)
  • Experience using APIs to pull data and cloning repositories and extract data
  • Highly responsive and quick to solve problems.

 

Conditions of Employment:

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) seeks to provide a safe and healthy environment for the entire UCI community. As part of this commitment, all applicants who accept an offer of employment must comply with the following conditions of employment:

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*Misconduct Disclosure Requirement: As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.

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