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<td>[Ieee_vis_open_positions] Assistant Professor in
GIScience, University of South Carolina</td>
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<td>Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:31:43 -0400</td>
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<td>Diansheng Guo <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:diansheng.guo@gmail.com"><diansheng.guo@gmail.com></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ieee_vis_open_positions@listserv.uni-tuebingen.de">ieee_vis_open_positions@listserv.uni-tuebingen.de</a></td>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;"><b><span
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">UNIVERSITY OF
SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;"><b><span
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">DEPARTMENT OF
GEOGRAPHY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;"><b><span
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Geographic
Information Science</span></b><b><span style="font-family:
Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;"><b><span
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The Department of
Geography at the University of South Carolina invites
applications for a full-time tenure track position at the
rank of <strong>Assistant Professor</strong> in the area of <strong>Geographic
Information Science </strong><strong><span
style="font-weight: normal;">to begin August 16, 2015.</span></strong><strong> </strong>The
successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in geography or a
closely related field at the time of appointment. <strong> </strong><strong><span
style="font-weight: normal;">We seek a colleague with
expertise in the collection, processing, validation, and
analysis of big data to better understand
spatio-temporal patterns across topics and geographic
scales and to foster trans-disciplinary collaborations</span></strong><b>. </b>The
candidate should have: 1) strong theoretical underpinnings
in one or more of the following areas of interest: social
media, crowd-sourced data, mobile computing, data content
and reliability, cyber infrastructure/security, data mining
and analysis, or legal/policy issues, coupled with 2)
equally important applications in thematic areas such as
disaster response and recovery, public health, environmental
patterns and processes, or social/economic/demographic
dynamics. With the large volumes of data tied to these
fields of study, ideally the candidate will </span><span
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">have strengths in
computational areas of cyber-infrastructure, high
performance computing, GPU computing and/or cloud computing.</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> Preference will
be given to candidates who possess a strong record of
publication and extramural funding, research and teaching
interests that complement and expand existing departmental
strengths, and a demonstrated ability to work with
interdisciplinary groups both on and off campus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Candidates should
provide a letter of application describing current and
future research activities and teaching
interests/experience, a curriculum vitae, and the names and
contact information (including e-mail addresses) of at least
three referees. All materials should be submitted
electronically to Dr. Susan Cutter, Search Committee Chair (</span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:scutter@sc.edu"
style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif;">scutter@sc.edu</span></a><span
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">). </span><span
style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Screening of
applications will begin <b>September 30, 2014,</b>though
applications may be considered until the search is completed<strong>.</strong><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif;"><br>
The University of South Carolina's main campus is located in
the state capital, close to the mountains and the coast. The
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has
designated the University of South Carolina as one of only
73 public and 35 private academic institutions with “very
high research activity” and also lists USC as having strong
focus on community engagement. The University has over
31,000 students on the main campus (and over 46,000 students
system-wide), more than 350 degree programs, and a
nationally-ranked library system that includes one of the
nation’s largest public film archives. Columbia, the capital
of South Carolina, is the center of a greater metropolitan
area which has a population over 750,000.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif;">The University of South Carolina is an
affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Minorities
and women are encouraged to apply. The University of South
Carolina does not discriminate in educational or employment
opportunities or decisions for qualified persons on the
basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age,
disability, sexual orientation, or veteran status.</span></p>
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