CyberAgent, Inc.

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Who We Are
CyberAgent is a leading Japanese company experiencing rapid growth in the internet industry.
Within the CyberAgent Group, the AI Tech Studio division focuses on developing cutting-edge services in the digital marketing domain and houses a research and development organization called "AILab." Not only does AILab aim to solve business challenges, but it also strives to contribute to academia through the use of advanced AI research technologies and proactive collaboration with universities and academic institutions.

Team members and paper acceptance track record:
https://cyberagent.ai/ailab/research/econ/

Field Of Research:
- Prediction of Causal Effect
- Experiment/RCT
- Application of Mechanism Design
- Demand Estimation
- Pricing
- Information Intervention
- Forecasting
- Evaluation of Bandit / Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

Regarding the recruitment positions:
In the AI Lab Economics Team, we are looking for researchers who focus on cutting-edge theoretical and applied research in economics combined with machine learning. In this position, our goal is to submit research results to top international journals such as Econometrica, and top conferences such as AAAI, ICML, KDD, Recsys, and NeurIPS.
We are offering two research positions:

- Research Scientist
- Postdoctoral researchers

Please refer to the following for the details of each position.

Research Scientist
This is a permanent position. The main goal of this role is to publish research papers that address real-world problems while communicating with the business side. Therefore, a business-level proficiency in Japanese is required.

Postdoctoral researchers
Postdocs stay in CyberAgent for one or two years and they have opportunities to access CyberAgent data. The main goal of this role is to publish research papers independently. Japanese language skills are not necessary.

Requirements for both positions:
- A Ph.D. in Economics, Business, or a closely related field
- Candidates with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and an interest in economics are also welcome
- Demonstrated ability to write and publish research papers as the lead author in peer-reviewed conferences and journals
- Capability to reproduce research results and conduct further studies based on existing papers
- Proficiency in R and/or Python, as well as other statistical analysis tools
- Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work with team members from diverse backgrounds, such as researchers from different disciplines, data scientists, and engineers

Application Materials:
- CV/Resume
- Cover letter
- Research papers or links to the papers
- 3 Letters of Reference