Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.
About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.
Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.
Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.
About Scheller College of Business
The Scheller College of Business' Full-time MBA Program is ranked #9 among public universities by Bloomberg BusinessWeek (2021) and U.S. News & World Report (2023). Georgia Tech is one of the nation's leading research universities and consistently ranks among the top public universities in the country. Atlanta is the 9th largest metropolitan area in the U.S. and serves as a cultural and economic hub for the region.
The Information Technology Management (ITM) Area of the Scheller College includes 10 tenured or tenure track faculty members who study a wide range of research topics related to technology, such as fintech, e-commerce, cybersecurity, online labor market, knowledge management, digital marketing, as well as behavioral and social issues related to AI and generative AI. Many of our faculty members serve in editorial roles at premiere business school journals, including one of the Department Editors at Management Science, and the Editor-in-Chief of Information & Management. Our faculty also prides itself on its diversity of research methods, ranging from econometrics, statistics, experiments, to analytical modeling, behavioral research, machine learning and other design science methods. Additional information about our faculty can be found at https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/academics-research/it-management/index.html
Atlanta, GA
The Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia seeks applications to fill two Postdoctoral Fellow research positions in IT Management (ITM). The selected candidates will closely collaborate with the ITM area faculty on various topics. One topic includes those related to the application of generative AI in financial technologies (FinTech), which will be ideal for an innovative and motivated individual who is poised to engage in cutting-edge research in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. We are particularly interested in candidates who share our passion in this area, including the use of generative AI to capture signals in the financial markets, generative AI and financial inclusivity, the relationship between Large Language Models and the domain knowledge in finance, and more broadly the impact of generative AI on the fintech industry dynamics. Other topics of mutual interest are also possible.
The postdoc is expected to begin in August 2024, with start dates as late as January 2025 also being considered. The initial appointment is for one year and may be renewed depending on mutual consent, satisfactory performance, and the availability of resources.
Responsibilities for this position include:
There is flexibility with regard to the starting date to accommodate the selected candidate.
A PhD Degree no later than the job start date in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Statistics, Data Science, Business Analytics, Information Systems Management, Marketing, Economics, or a closely related field.
Applicants should submit:
Applicants can reach out to Professor Mingfeng Lin (mlin@gatech.edu) and Professor D.J. Wu (dj.wu@scheller.gatech.edu) for further information.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. To receive full consideration, please submit your application no later than April 20, 2024.
The selection process for the chosen candidates will include passing a pre-employment background screening, submission of transcripts, as well as other pre-employment documents once top candidates have been identified.
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ABD (All but dissertation) candidates must have successfully defended their dissertation no later than July 1, 2024 for an August 1, 2024 start date.
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