Robert Stewart, of Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), who we met at StanCon, is looking to fill the following role:

• ORNL Job ad: Group Leader for Spatial Statistics

It’s a research group leader position with an emphasis on published research that’s relevant for the Department of Energy (the group that runs the national labs). Robert came and gave a talk here at Flatiron Institute and the scale and range of problems they’re tasked with solving is really interesting (e.g., inferring the height, construction, and use of every human-constructed building in the world). They’ve got access to the computing to tackle this kind of thing, too.

After meeting Robert, I invited him out to Flatiron Institute to give a talk to our group (Center for Computational Mathematics). They’re working on a fascinating range of problems around climate science, energy, etc. In all cases, there is a challenging mix of measurement uncertainty, missing data, and prior knowledge to combine.

ORNL is looking for someone with a Ph.D. and 6 years of experience—that is, about the point where you’d get tenure in academia. Unlike academia, they also list an M.S. with 15 years of experience as an alternative.

The visa sponsorship” section says “not available”, so I assume that means you have to be a U.S. citizen.