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# Post-Doctoral Associate in the Division of Science (Computer Science) Dr. Yasir Zaki

- **Company:** New York University
- **Location:** Claremont, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** AI Evaluation, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Network Analysis, Computer Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Sciences, Machine Learning, Cisco Nexus Switches, Recommender Systems, Web Platforms, Large Language Models, Information Technology
- **Published:** October 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.chronicle.com/apply/38046123/post-doctoral-associate-in-the-division-of-science-computer-science-dr-yasir-zaki?LinkSource=JobDetails

## About the Role

* Science and Science Advances
 * PNAS or PNAS Nexus;
 * National Science Review;
 * IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems;
 * ACM Transactions on the Web
 * ACM Transactions on data science
 * Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction;
 * Journal of Computational Social Science.

At minimum, applicants must identify one qualifying paper in which they were the first or co-first author, or for which they can document an equivalent leading intellectual and technical contribution. A competitive applicant will normally have multiple strong research outputs appropriate to their career stage. Applications that do not demonstrate a publication record in at least one of the venues listed above will not be considered. General interest in responsible AI, coursework, use of machine-learning tools, unpublished projects, or publications only in unrelated venues do not satisfy this requirement. For collaborative publications, applicants must explain their personal contribution. Authorship by itself will not be treated as evidence of research leadership., * Hold a PhD-or have completed all PhD requirements before starting-in computer science, information science, data science, computational social science, electrical or computer engineering, or a closely related discipline and be less than 5 years post-receipt of the doctoral degree.

 * Meet the mandatory publication requirement above
 * Demonstrate the ability to define and complete original, rigorous research
 * Possess strong programming, experimental-design, and quantitative-analysis skills
 * Have experience working with large-scale data, machine-learning models, human-subject studies, platform audits, or computational experiments
 * Communicate research clearly in writing and presentations
 * Be able to lead projects while collaborating across technical and social-science disciplines
 * Be committed to ethical, transparent, and reproducible research. Relevant expertise may include NLP, large language models, computational social science, social-network analysis, causal inference, survey or behavioral experiments, recommender systems, algorithmic auditing, machine-learning evaluation, or human-computer interaction. Experience conducting multilingual, cross-cultural, or Global South-focused research is particularly valuable.

## Description

The Communication Networks Lab at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), led by Yasir Zaki, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Associate in Responsible AI and Computational Social Science. Our research examines how artificial intelligence, online platforms, and the Web shape individuals, societies, and access to information. Recent themes include large-language-model safety and bias, political behavior in AI systems, misinformation and online harms, platform and recommendation-system audits, multilingual and culturally inclusive AI evaluation, and biases in digital and scientific ecosystems. We seek an outstanding researcher who already has a demonstrated record of publishing rigorous work in leading AI, NLP, Web, computational-social-science, human-computer-interaction, or interdisciplinary-science venues. The successful candidate will be expected to formulate research questions, lead empirical projects, develop rigorous computational or experimental methods, publish in highly
selective venues, and help mentor junior researchers.

The successful candidate will lead research in one or more areas such as:

 * Safety, bias, fairness, and political behavior in large language models
 * Multilingual and culturally inclusive AI evaluation
 * Misinformation, toxicity, and online-harm measurement and mitigation
 * Auditing recommendation systems, search systems, and online platforms
 * AI-mediated political communication and public opinion
 * Social and behavioral effects of generative AI
 * Computational analysis of digital and scientific ecosystems
 * Human-centered evaluation of AI systems
 * Reproducible datasets, benchmarks, and auditing infrastructure for responsible AI. The candidate will have substantial freedom to develop new research directions aligned with the lab's goal of creating a more trustworthy and socially responsible Web. Mandatory publication requirement Applicants must have a strong peer-reviewed publication record in leading venues relevant to this position