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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN CME Humanities Research Associate V in Austin, Texas
Maintain a data lake system with archives of static and streaming internet and news data that can be queried by researchers.Seek out, scrape and support new datasets that are of interest to CME faculty. Manage the security of the archive, including access, encryption, and security training.Regularly review security measures, permissions, and encryption protocol.Manage data back-ups. Store and update documentation of datasets, including provenance files/data sheets, access protocols, and security measures. This may involve some software development.Develop, implement, and evaluate supervised and unsupervised classifiers, including training and testing classifiers (e.g., BERT, GPT, CNN) for multiple research projects.Recommend and execute strategies to improve model performance and efficiency. Document the process and contribute to research and open-source initiatives, including writing model cards.Work with and support researchers with various backgrounds in computational methods to inform their research designs.Follow emerging trends in computational research (e.g. RAG, RLHF) and use these learnings to inform researchers of how they could apply to their work.Other duties as assigned.
