Research Assistant: Advanced Data Analytics

The University of Alberta is a leading institution committed to knowledge and innovation. The Research Assistant: Advanced Data Analytics will support data-driven research by managing the full analytics workflow, including data collection, analysis, and model deployment, while ensuring effective communication of findings to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Data collection & cleaning: gathering, consolidating, and validating raw datasets to ensure accuracy and readiness for analysis
• Data analysis & exploration: performing descriptive and diagnostic analytics to identify trends, anomalies, and key business drivers
• Natural Language Processing (NLP): applying text analytics, tokenization, embeddings, and model-based techniques to extract insights from unstructured text data
• Predictive modelling & machine learning development: building and training statistical and machine learning models to support forecasting and classification tasks
• Model validation & optimization: testing, tuning, and refining models to maximize accuracy, reliability, and scalability
• Data visualization & communication: developing clear, insightful visual representations of findings and presenting results to stakeholders in a business-ready format

Skills

• Master's in Science / Engineering with expertise in Python, natural language processing, and advanced predictive data analytics
• Experience with data cleaning, exploratory analysis, and basic statistical methods
• Proficiency in Python for data analysis and machine learning
• Experience applying NLP techniques to text data
• Hands-on experience building and validating predictive or machine learning models
• Ability to create clear data visualizations and communicate analytical findings
• Experience with research projects, cloud platforms

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package

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