[Jobinfo] Fwd: [Ieee_vis_open_positions] Assistant Professor in GIScience, University of South Carolina

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Subject: 	[Ieee_vis_open_positions] Assistant Professor in GIScience, 
University of South Carolina
Date: 	Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:31:43 -0400
From: 	Diansheng Guo <diansheng.guo@gmail.com>
To: 	ieee_vis_open_positions@listserv.uni-tuebingen.de




*UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA*
*DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY*
*Geographic Information Science***
**
The Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina invites 
applications for a full-time tenure track position at the rank of 
*Assistant Professor* in the area of *Geographic Information Science 
**to begin August 16, 2015.***The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. 
in geography or a closely related field at the time of appointment. 
***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**. *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 have strengths 
in computational areas of cyber-infrastructure, high performance 
computing, GPU computing and/or cloud computing. 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.
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 
(scutter@sc.edu <mailto:scutter@sc.edu>). Screening of applications will 
begin *September 30, 2014,*though applications may be considered until 
the search is completed*.*


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.

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.





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