Junior Research Scientist (Prof. Ursu & Prof. Liu)

The NYU Stern Marketing Department seeks a highly skilled and motivated individual for a full-time Junior Research Scientist position for a period of one year.

The Junior Research Scientist will work with faculty members at NYU Stern’s Marketing Department. The research projects are at the boundary between Business Analytics/Quantitative Marketing and Industrial Organization.

The topics include:


+ Digital Marketing

+ Consumer choice and search behaviors

+ Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence applications in Marketing (Natural language processing, Computer vision, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, AI Agents, LLM fine-tuning)


The research projects involve:


+ High-dimensional data that record clicks, transactions, prices, offline and online advertising, and other marketing interventions

+ Building AI agents as co-scientists

+ Building foundation models for consumer transaction data

+ Un...