Research Assistant/Associate in Probabilistic Programming (Fixed Term)

The Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge is offering a Postdoctoral Researcher position to work on collaborative projects with Dr. Hong Ge at the Computational and Biological Learning Lab, along with the Alan Turing Institute, the MRC Biostatistics Unit, and the Stan community. 

The position is based in Central Cambridge, UK.

The project synthesises and advances insights from modern Bayesian modelling frameworks such as Stan, Turing.jl, and PyMC, including automatic differentiation frameworks, MCMC sampling algorithms, and iterative Bayesian modelling. Special attention will be given to computationally intensive components, including ordinary and stochastic differential equations, and non-parametric components like Gaussian Processes.

The project builds on the following key publications:

- TE Fjelde, K Xu, D Widmann, M Tarek, C Pfiffer, M Trapp, SD Axen, X Sun, M Hauru, P Yong, W Tebbutt, Z Ghahramani, H Ge (2025). Turing.jl: A general-purpose probabilistic programming language. ACM Transactions on Probabilistic Machine Learning.

- A Gelman, A Vehtari, D Simpson, CC Margossian, B Carpenter, Y Yao, L Kennedy, J Gabry, PC Bürkner, M Modrák (2020). Bayesian Workflow.

- B Carpenter, A Gelman, MD Hoffman, D Lee, B Goodrich, M Betancourt, M Brubaker, J Guo, P Li, A Riddell (2017). Stan: A probabilistic programming language. JOSS.

Appointment at Research Associate level is dependent on having a PhD (or equivalent experience). Those who have submitted but not yet received their PhD will be appointed at Research Assistant level, which will be amended to Research Associate once the PhD has been awarded.

Interviews will be conducted via Zoom.

Please ensure that you upload your CV, publication list, and a covering letter in the Upload section. If you upload any additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application.

Please submit your application by midnight on the closing date. 

For questions about the vacancy, please contact Dr. Hong Ge (hg344@cam.ac.uk) for technical queries about the role or for the application process, please contact the CBL group administrator at cbl-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk

Please quote reference NM45697 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

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