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<td>[Ieee_vis_open_positions] Postdoctoral Researcher
Positions in Visual Analytics, Data Science and Trustable
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Postdoctoral Researcher Positions in
Visual Analytics, Data Science and Trustable AI<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Data Institute for Societal Challenges<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">We invite
applications for two postdoctoral researchers <b><u>with
Summer or Fall start dates</u></b> in visual analytics,
data science, machine learning, trustable AI, social media
analytics, and big data analytics across a wide spectrum of
application areas. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The successful candidate will perform
duties including:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:12.6pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"> Research in visual analytics in application
domains including social media analysis, interactive and
explainable AI, sustainable food-energy-water systems public
safety, crisis management, functional soil mapping,
precision agriculture. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"> <span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Research
in </span><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white">Foundational
Data Science with a specific focus on trustable and
scientific AI<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:12.6pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"> Assist in drafting successful research grant
proposals.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:12.6pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"> Lead research activities within the group,
including project management and stakeholder engagement.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:12.6pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"> Assist in supervising graduate and
undergraduate students. <o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:12.6pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"> Interface with renowned academic research
groups at and beyond OU.<o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Requirements<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The candidate
should hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Information Science,
Industrial Engineering, Geography, Statistics, Data Science or
a related field, with a strong research background and
expertise in data science, visual analytics, trustable,
explainable AI, or some of these areas: <o:p> </o:p></p>
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level1 lfo2"> <span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Geospatial
and temporal analysis<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4
level1 lfo2"> <span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Statistics
<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4
level1 lfo2"> <span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Machine
learning/AI<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4
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style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Human-guided
AI<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4
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style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Cognitive
science <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l4
level1 lfo2"> <span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Human-computer
interaction<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l4
level1 lfo2"> <span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Big
data <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l4
level1 lfo2"> <span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Human
factors <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l4
level1 lfo2"> <span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Health
and public health analytics <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l4
level1 lfo2"> <span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Digital
Humanities<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l4
level1 lfo2"> <span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Food-water-energy
systems<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l4
level1 lfo2"> <span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Sustainable/precision
agriculture <o:p> </o:p></span></li>
</ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">OU has multiple joint research projects
with Peruvian Universities. Therefore, professional
proficiency in <u>Spanish</u> is a plus. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Both beginning and senior postdoctoral
candidates are encouraged to apply. Excellent oral and written
communication skills are mandatory.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">About Us<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">We are the OU
Data Science Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC Center).
The DISC Center is a new campus-wide institute in the Vice
President for Research and Partnerships office. Our mission is
to empower transdisciplinary research and collaboration to
drive convergent solutions to societal challenges in Oklahoma,
the nation, and the world through data science research, tools
and capabilities. <span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="background:white">The Data Institute for Societal
Challenges convenes diverse teams to collaborate to solve
some of the world’s most pressing problems and achieve a
lasting societal impact. These communities are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo3"> <span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white">Foundational
Data Science<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo3"> <span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;background:white">Aerospace,
Defense and Global Security<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo3"> <span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Community
and Societal Transformation<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo3"> <span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The
Future of Health<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo3"> <span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;border:none
windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Environment, Energy, and
Sustainability </span><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">DISC works
closely with local and international collaborators, including
social media experts, sustainability experts, agricultural
producers, health and public safety departments, economists,
first responders, computational scientists, businesses, and
researchers in science, engineering, and economics.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some of the projects DISC is currently
engaged with include:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraph"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo4"> <i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Visual
Analytics for Public Health Applications<o:p></o:p></span></i></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt">The ongoing and evolving COVID-19
pandemic has resulted in tremendous negative effects on
people’s daily lives. It is critical for decision makers
such as health care officials and governors to foresee
potential impacts and make timely decisions. To aid in this
process, we are developing PanViz 2.0, a visual analytics
application that combines epidemic model and AI-driven
analytics to infer the best-fit parameters to enable the
adaptation to ongoing pandemics at multiple spatial
aggregations (national wide, state level, and county level).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo4"> <i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Data
Analytics for Social Justice<o:p></o:p></span></i></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">DISC
is currently engaged in a series of projects that fall under
the broad label of data analytics for social justice. These
projects include the extension of the SMART system to
analyze changes in public perceptions and opinions around
policing in communities of color (Social Media and the
Visual Politics of Policing Communities of Color). We are
working alongside the OU Carceral Studies Consortium to
apply data science and data analytics to study the long-term
effects of incarceration while developing policy solutions
centered on reducing juvenile incarceration. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo4"> <i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Detecting
and Countering Online Misinformation<o:p></o:p></span></i></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Recent
events have highlighted the pernicious and deleterious
impact that misinformation and disinformation have on public
discourse and policy making. DISC is directly involved in
several projects seeking to identify, label, and counter the
spread of misinformation and disinformation </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#444444;background:#FAFAFA">through
integrated social science theory, risk communication, data
science, cognitive psychology, and communication theories
and techniques.</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">
One of these projects, conducted in conjunction with
researchers from the Gaylord College of Journalism, focuses
on identifying and countering misinformation around cancer
treatments. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l3 level1
lfo5"> <i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">AI
Institute Planning grant: A Gap-Based Approach to Frame
and Develop Robust AI for Sustainable, Climate-Adapted
Agriculture</span></i><i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt">This NSF/USDA project aims to build
stakeholder trust in the power of artificial intelligence to
create congruency and efficiency in predicting Climate,
Food, and Water processes by leveraging the foundation of
the physical and biological processes underlying the data
and their model representations. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo4"> <i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">UNSA/OU
Alianza Institute: Public Health Monitoring and Decision
Making in Peru<o:p></o:p></span></i></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt">This pilot project will evaluate
the feasibility of a real-time, electronic, syndromic
surveillance and decision-making system to provide (i) base
data needed for accurate situational surveillance, virus
spread status, and measurement of mitigation actions, and
(ii) support for timely, data-, model-, and expertise-driven
problem solving<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo4"> <i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Social
Media Analytics and Reporting Toolkit (SMART)</span></i><i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The
Social Media Analytics and Reporting Toolkit (SMART)
provides interactive exploration and analysis of real-time,
publicly available Twitter and Instagram data through
scalable integrated topic modeling algorithms, spatial
cluster visualizations, exclusion and inclusion of semantic
keyword filters, and temporal views. SMART is powered by
advanced analytics and human-guided, interactive machine
learning for applications in misinformation and
disinformation, social justice, and public safety.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo4"> <i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext">NATO-
netwoRk for alErting And managing publiC safeTy and
resilience – REACT</span></i><i><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">This
project will develop </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> an
innovative pilot platform (REACT) for the rapid and
effective response and management of natural or man-made
crisis scenarios, integrating real-time social media
analysis and real-time chemical and biological sensing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>To apply<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please send your CV and a one-page research
statement to Dr. David Ebert (<a href="mailto:ebert@ou.edu"
moz-do-not-send="true">ebert@ou.edu</a>) and Dr. Audrey
Reinert (<a href="mailto:areinert@ou.edu"
moz-do-not-send="true">areinert@ou.edu</a>). Applications
will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the positions are
filled. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">David<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dr.
David S. Ebert, Gallogly Chair Professor of ECE and CS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Associate
Vice President of Research and Partnerships<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Director,
Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">University
of Oklahoma <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">5
Partners Place<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">201
Stephenson Pkwy, Ste 4600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Norman,
OK 73019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:ebert@ou.edu"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ebert@ou.edu</span></a><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dr.
David S. Ebert, Gallogly Chair Professor of ECE and CS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Associate
Vice President of Research and Partnerships<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Director,
Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">University
of Oklahoma <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">5
Partners Place<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">201
Stephenson Pkwy, Ste 4600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Norman,
OK 73019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a
href="mailto:ebert@ou.edu" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:blue">ebert@ou.edu</span></a>
</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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