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<td>[Ieee_vis_open_positions] Postdoctoral Research
Associate in Geospatial Big-Data Analytics and
Visualization / NB50594648</td>
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<td>Tue, 18 Oct 2016 10:28:41 -0400</td>
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<td>Jibonananda Sanyal via ieee_vis_open_positions
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<td>Jibonananda Sanyal <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jibonananda.sanyal@gmail.com"><jibonananda.sanyal@gmail.com></a></td>
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<span
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Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) Group
in the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division
(CSED) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) seeks to
hire a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science with a
focus in big-data analytics and geovisualization.The
function of this position is to provide research and
development support to a large number of
geospatially-focused projects that projects that span a wide
variety of scientific domains, applications, delivery
platforms, programming languages, and hardware and software
architectures. The candidate must be comfortable working as
part of a tightly integrated team and must be capable of
supporting multiple projects simultaneously.</span><br
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<b
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Duties/Responsibilities:</b><br
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<span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px">Responsibilities
include, but are not limited to: Conducting basic and
applied research in advanced data analytics, uncertainty,
visualization, ensemble methods, data fusion, and data
provenance with a strong emphasis on algorithm development,
prototyping, and validation. Develop, optimize, and
transition algorithm prototypes to scalable, parallelized,
and robust implementations. Working with GIST researchers,
as well as internal and external project sponsors, to
capture, understand, integrate, and implement their
requirements in developed algorithms and associated
software, as well as contribute to publications.</span><br
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Required:</b><br
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<span
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Qualifications: PhD in computer science, computer
engineering, geography, geosciences, mathematics, or related
disciplines. Experience in one or moreof the following
areas: GIS, remote sensing, geographic information systems,
big-data mining, simulation and modeling, statistics, and
visualization.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span
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Qualifications: Past hands-on involvement in research and
development of significant geospatial software platforms
involving big-data, visualization, machine learning,
statistics, and modeling. Strong publication records in the
areas of expertise. Strong programming experience with C,
C++, Python, JavaScript, Matlab, Perl, and R. Experience
with big-data, data mining, data provenance, ensemble
methods, and uncertainty visualization. Experience in use of
GDAL, PROJ.4, QGIS, OpenLayers, OpenStreetMap, Leaflet, D3,
Angular, BootStrap, and Node.js. Knowledge of WebGL,
computer graphics (OpenGL, VTK, etc.), and SQL/NoSQL
databases (PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc) is
desirable. Experience with parallel and distributed
computing software and hardware architectures including
OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, OpenACC, OpenCL, andApache Open Source
Solutions. Strong social and communication skills and
experience in working with multidisciplinary teams.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span
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Information: Applicants cannot have received their PhD more
than five years prior to the date of application and must
complete all degree requirements before starting their
appointment. The appointment length will be up to 24 months
with the potential for extension. Initial appointments and
extensions are subject to performance and availability of
funding.</span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jibonananda Sanyal, Ph.D.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Staff Scientist and Team Lead, Scalable
Geocomputation,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">GIST, Oak Ridge National Laboratory</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Adjunct Faculty, CSE, Mississippi State
University</p>
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