Senior Data Scientist

Job Details

Zeeto Media (zeetomedia.com) is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our growing online performance marketing company and use sophisticated data driven mathematical methods to optimize our marketing and ad-buying efforts.
This role requires both hands-on algorithm development as well as player-coach technical leadership. You need to be both an individual contributor as well as a thought and technical leader, mentor, and senior, trained Algorithms Scientist who can help your team solve and implement statistical and machine learning algorithm problems.  In addition, it is essential that you work well with software engineering and can use and learn related software and database tools as needed.
This position will be in our corporate office in Downtown San Diego, CA.  You must be willing to live/relocate to this amazing city within a reasonable time frame.
What is Zeeto Media?

Zeeto Media is a premium content publisher headquartered in San Diego. We specialize in unique online advertising programs across web, social, mobile, and email; with a strong focus on performance (CPA, CPC, & CPL) driven campaigns.
In addition, Zeeto Media offers InsightAds™, which is an innovative platform designed to target not only the ideal consumer for CPG brands but more specifically, with consumers that have the intention of making a purchase. InsightAds™ offers brands the opportunity to participate in a more cost effective and efficient media investment. Zeeto Media's flag ship property is GetItFree.us, a daily deal site for cost conscious consumers. Zeeto Media plans to build additional premium sites with engaging content that align with high value consumers.
We offer a challenging, but rewarding career.  We work hard and play hard!
Check us out - zeetomedia.com

Requirements

Ph.D. or equivalent work experience in Statistics, Applied Math, Machine Learning, CS, EE or related engineering discipline with focus, depth and current expertise in mathematical algorithms, probability theory, statistical modeling, and machine learning.
10+ years post-academic and recent experience focused on algorithm development and statistical analysis of large datasets and real-time events.
Proven ability to balance probability and statistical theory and algorithms science with pragmatic problem solving skills, and a track record of developing and applying advanced predictive algorithms and behavior models implemented in software that solve real world data problems.
Ability to assist in hiring, growing, and mentoring other data scientists to assist in modeling efforts and to work with the software development team to implement algorithms in a production web environment.
Experience in modeling and optimizing various aspects of online advertising, as well as general familiarity with the online marketing space, are a plus.
Technical

• R, Matlab, or equivalent statistical computing platform
• SQL
• Experience with Big Data environments such as Cassandra or MongoDB a plus
• Programming/software development experience, particularly with php and/or Python, also a plus. for details see here 

Invitation for a tenure-track faculty position specialized in the area of health informatics

Job Posting Website: http://engineering.wayne.edu/cs/about/jobs.php

Organization/Institution: Wayne State University
Department: Department of Computer Science

Applications are invited for a tenure-track faculty position specialized in the area of health informatics at the assistant professor level beginning in Fall 2013.  Candidates are expected to have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a closely related field and to demonstrate potential for excellence in teaching and research.  Candidates with research interests in the area of health informatics, including human-computer interaction, information retrieval and visualization, data mining, natural language processing, and health data management, for both community health informatics and personalized medicine, will receive the strongest consideration. However, excellent candidates in other areas will also be considered. This position is part of the university's effort in building Interdisciplinary Program for Obesity Research and Education, and the candidate is expected to work independently as well as to collaborate closely with faculty from the Obesity Center.

The Department of Computer Science has 23 tenured or tenure-track faculty members, with research strengths in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Graphics and Visualization, Software Engineering, and Computer Systems. The research in the department is also highly interdisciplinary with active collaborations with faculty in medicine, engineering, and sciences. The Department has six NSF CAREER recipients, and an external funding exceeding $6M annually. The department currently has over 80 full-time Ph.D. students, along with 60 Master's students, and 293 undergraduate majors. Further information about the department can be found athttp://www.cs.wayne.edu.

The Department of Computer Science is in the College of Engineering.  The College has an annual research expenditure of about $20M. Information about the College of Engineering can be found at http://engineering.wayne.edu. Wayne State University is a Carnegie Research Extensive University offering more than 350 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges, to more than 32,000 students. Wayne State has approximately $260M annual research expenditures and more than 11,000 graduate students. Wayne State University, in partnership with the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, has a key role in Michigan's University Research Corridor initiative (http://urcmich.org/) and is closely involved with TechTown, the area's business incubator (http://techtownwsu.org/).  In addition, within a 20-mile radius of Wayne State campus, several Metro Detroit suburbs are consistently ranked in top 100 in Money Magazine's Best Places to Live (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/best-places/2012/states/MI.html).

Application Instructions

Applicants should submit a cover letter, statement of research and teaching, and curriculum vitae with the contact information of three references. For full consideration, applications must be received by January 10, 2013. 

Apply online at jobs.wayne.edu (position number: 039046). Nominations and inquiries should be directed to Prof. Ming Dong, the Chair of Search Committee, at mdong@wayne.edu.

Wayne State University is an equal opportunity educational institution/equal opportunity employer.

POSTDOC researcher in the field of WEB DATA ANALYTICS.

The Web Information Systems research group at TU Delft (the
Netherlands) has an opening for a qualified

POSTDOC researcher in the field of WEB DATA ANALYTICS.

Description: The position is in the area of web data analytics for the
social web. In the context of national and international projects,
this part of the WIS group's research is aimed at exploring novel
techniques for modeling and analyzing users on the social web, for
example for the purpose of adaptation and personalization. This
research has been published in a range of high-quality conferences and
journals in recent years such as UMAP, WebSci, SIGIR, ACM HT etc.
These research projects involve partnerships with external partners in
domains such as cultural heritage, e-learning, crisis management, etc.
(see http://www.wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/web-analytics/ ).
The position includes also the supervision of PhD students studying this topic.
Participation in education is possible.

Requirements: Candidates are required to have a completed PhD.
Specialization and a proven track record is needed in user modeling,
web mining, web science, information retrieval, or related fields.
Needed qualifications for candidates include proven research talent,
relevant programming skills, experience with programming in the social
web, and software development in a team. Candidates are expected to
have an excellent command of English, and good academic writing and
presentation skills.

Employment: More on the WIS group can be found at
http://www.wis.ewi.tudelft.nl . The position is available for two
years, ideally starting early 2013. The terms of employment are in
accordance with the Dutch Collective Labour Agreement for Research
Institutes ("CAO-onderzoeksinstellingen"). Expats may apply for a
profitable tax ruling, which, if approved by the tax authorities,
would mean not having to pay taxes over 30% of your income.

Information and Application: For more information on the position,
contact prof. Geert-Jan Houben (g.j.p.m.houben@tudelft.nl). To apply,
applicants should send him by email (mention "PD-WDA"  in the subject)
a curriculum vitae with a list of publications. The deadline for
applications is December 1, 2012.

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

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                        SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (CFP PDF enclosed)
                           >> Deadline: December 05, 2012 <<

                        Second International Conference on
        Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia (IITM 2013)
        Organized by Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Allahabad, India
                           March 09-11, 2013 Allahabad, India
                          Conf website: http://iitm.iiita.ac.in

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Dear Colleagues,

It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that IIIT Allahabad is organizing the
Second International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and
Multimedia (IITM 2013) during March 09-11, 2013 with pre-conference workshop on
08 March, 2013. We invite your good-self to contribute your original and
unpublished research findings related to the topics listed under following four
Tracks:

Track 1: Interaction Design, Innovative Methods and Devices of IITM
Track 2: Graphics, Animation, Image and Multimedia Technologies
Track 3: Cognitive Models, Softcomputing, AI and Machine Learning
Track 4: Speech and Language Processing Technologies

Each track is being coordinated by two world-renowned experts of the area. The
list of various topics is included in the attached conference Call for Papers
(CFP PDF) or can be seen on the conference website. The selected papers would be
published in the proceedings of the conference in print as well as in electronic
(on CD) form. Selected top quality papers presented during the conference, duly
extended & reformatted, would further be considered for publication in selected
international journals/ digital library.

We also request you to give it a wider publicity by forwarding the email to your
other colleagues/ researchers of academics, industrial, scientific and
engineering fraternity.


Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline           :   December 05, 2012
Notification of acceptance              :       January 25, 2013
Camera-ready manuscripts due      :     February 10, 2013


For any further information regarding conference visit
http://iitm.iiita.ac.in or email us at iitm@iiita.ac.in /iitm.acm@gmail.com

Looking forward for your favorable contributions

TENURE-TRACK POSITION(S) LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AT THE ASSISTANT, ASSOCIATE, OR FULL PROFESSOR RANK

TENURE-TRACK POSITION(S)
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
AT THE ASSISTANT, ASSOCIATE, OR FULL PROFESSOR RANK

The Department of Library and Information Science in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey, seeks applications from scholars conducting innovative research in the areas of health informatics, data science, and/or interaction and design in digital environments who value a climate of cross-departmental collaboration and interdisciplinary commitment to the development of discoveries and new ideas in response to local and global challenges.

Health Informatics

In anticipation of the merger of Rutgers University with the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Department of Library and Information Science at Rutgers welcomes applicants with background and research interests overlapping Information Science and Health Informatics, including but not limited to:

•       Health information and communication technologies from the health provider (physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals) and/or consumer perspective;
•       Technology-based interventions to improve public health through wellness promotion;
•       Innovative research in designing technologies to support healthy living of an aging population;
•       Research oriented in health applications through advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) approach, knowledge integration, mobile technologies, or novel user interface designs.

Data Science

The phenomenon of “big data” is spreading in both industry and academia.  We seek researchers with interests including but not limited to:

•       New technologies for analytics, modeling and visualization;
•       New methods for collaboration with working scientists to further scientific analysis;
•       Innovative research on the process of moving data to repositories, curation, management, and exploiting/mining the data;
•       Explorations of questions involving policy, ethics, and related aspects of large data collections;
•       Users of “big data” including information seeking, user education and preferences; communication with other users and with systems, and techniques for users to exploit/mine data.

Interaction and Design in Digital Environments

Individuals and groups interact with one another in a variety of digital environments, and understanding the relationship between these interactions and the spaces in which they occur is a new concern.  We encourage applicants with expertise including but not limited to:


•       User experience design in large-scale social networks;
•       Design of systems to support collaboration and interaction at a variety of scales, from small groups to large-scale social networks;
•       Understanding information and communication behaviors in large-scale digital environments.

Qualified applicants to the Department of Library and Information Science studying one or more of these areas are invited to apply for a faculty position.   Our department is ranked 6th in the United States among Library and Information Science programs by U. S. News & World Report.

The scholarship of successful candidates will connect to one or more of the four problem-based research foci that have guided our school’s hiring in recent years: health and wellness; global media and democracy; organizations, policy, and leadership; and social media interaction & collaboration. We especially seek candidates from under-represented groups who would further our commitment to scholarly excellence and community diversity.  For more information about the Department of Library and Information Science and the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, including school-wide research interests and active faculty searches in the school’s Communication and Journalism and Media Studies departments, see: http://comminfo.rutgers.edu.

Qualifications: All candidates should have completed a Ph.D. in a relevant field no later than May 2013.   The ideal applicant’s program of research should complement the research foci of current faculty. Applicants should have a demonstrated record or strong likelihood of top-tier peer-reviewed publication as well as evidence of effective teaching. Senior level applicants should provide evidence of integrative leadership in research, instruction, and external funding.  Letter of application should address these points, and clearly articulate the candidate’s fit to specific departmental and school-wide research interests.  Duties of the successful applicant(s) include undergraduate and graduate teaching in the candidate’s field of scholarship, an active program of research in the candidate’s area of scholarly expertise, and service contributions to the advancement of the academic profession, to the effective operation of the university, and to society at large in accordance with university policy expectations for tenure-track appointments.

Submissions: Applications may be submitted beginning November 2, 2012 and must be received no later than December 1, 2012.  Submit to: http://its.scilsnet.rutgers.edu/facultysearch/. Include letter of application, CV, up to three representative publications, and names and contact information of three references (no letters at this time please). Please do not submit applications to more than one department.  If you see a potential fit in more than one department please indicate this in your application letter.

Founded in 1766, Rutgers is the eighth oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the elite AAU research universities in North America.  The School of Communication and Information is a founding member of the iSchools Caucus. An equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is committed to building a diverse community and encourages the applications of women and minority candidates. As evidence of that, among peer public institutions (public universities in the Association of American Universities), Rutgers is 4th in the nation for full-time female faculty, 14th in the nation for full-time African-American faculty, and 15th in the nation for full-time total minority faculty. Among those same schools Rutgers ranks 2nd in the percentage of degrees earned by African Americans, 8th for Asians, and 11th for Latinos.

International Conference on Soft Computing and Software Engineering [SCSE'13] March 1-2, 2013 - San Francisco, California, USA

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Soft Computing and Software Engineering [SCSE'13]

March 1-2, 2013 - San Francisco, California, USA

SoftEngConf.com

      

      Paper Submission Deadline:     December 15, 2012 

      Notification of Acceptance:      January 15, 2013

 

The international conference on Soft Computing and Software Engineering (SCSE'13) provides an excellent venue for researchers and practitioners in the fields of Computer Science and Computer Engineering to present and publish their research results and techniques. The SCSE'13 conference seeks original and high quality papers in the fields of Soft Computing, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Network Software and the related disciplines. The conference also includes a Best Paper Award ($500) given during the conference banquet. We also encourage work in progress and research results in the emerging and evolutionary computational areas. Computational techniques have already enabled unprecedented advances in computer science and computer engineering. This continues to be a vibrant research area with broadening of computational techniques and new emerging challenges. Work in the computational methods related to, or with application in, soft computing is also encouraged including: software architecture, data mining, text mining, machine learning, modeling and simulation, pattern recognition, data visualization,statistics, .etc.

 

The topics of interest include (and are not limited to):

Ambiguity in Software Development

Application of Object-Oriented Technology to Engineering

Architecture of  Object Oriented System

Agent Oriented Architecture 

Composition and Extension

Computer-Based Engineering Techniques

Data Modeling Techniques

History of Software Engineering

Impact of CASE on Software Development Life Cycle

Intellectual Property

Iterative Model

Knowledge Engineering Methods and Practices

Licensing

Expert Systems

Modeling Languages

Object-Oriented Systems

Project Management

Quality Management

Rational Unified Processing

Software Components

Software Deployment

Software Design and applications in Various Domain

Software Engineering Demographics

Software Engineering Economics

Software Engineering Methods and Practices

Software Engineering Professionalism

Software Ergonomics

Software Security

Software Maintenance and Evaluation

Structured Analysis

Structuring of (Large)  OO Systems

Systems Engineering

Test Driven Development

UML

Automata Theory

Algebraic properties of automata and languages

Grammars and automata

Estimations of parameters of codes

Relations of languages and automata to complexity theory

Turing Machine

Petri net languages

Cellular Automata

Application of Cellular Automata

Formal models

Grammatical methods

Automata as acceptors of languages

Applications of formal languages and automata

Software Security Analysis

Artificial Intelligence

Fuzzy Logic

Network Software

Cloud Computing Systems

Image Processes Software

 

Submission Procedures

Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission (PDF only in any format -IEEE CPS format recommended- without authors name).

A full paper should be submitted by December 15, 2012 at the following web site: http://softengconf.com/submit_fast.aspx 

 

Conference Proceeding & Journal Publication

All submitted papers will be under blind peer review and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding and will be sent to index in Scopus, EI Compendex, ISI Thomson (ISTP).

Also All accepted papers (the conference proceeding) will be published in the special issues of the International Journal of Soft Computing and Software Engineering [JSCSE].

 

Important Dates:

              Paper Submission Deadline           Dec. 15, 2012

              Notification of Acceptance                Jan. 15, 2013

              Camera-Ready Manuscript             Feb. 15, 2013

              Paper submission:  http://softengconf.com/submit_fast.aspx 

 

Download Call For Papers in PDF format.

 

For any questions please contact: info@SoftEngConf.com

Website: www.SoftEngConf.com

 

 

Call For Participation - SRII India – 3rd International Conference on Services in Emerging Markets,12th Dec to 15th Dec 2012

	CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SRII India – 3rd International Conference on Services in Emerging Markets Dec 12-15, 2012 Location: Infosys Campus, Mysore, India Website: http://thesrii.info Hosts: Infosys Ltd and IIIT Bangalore Bronze Sponsor: Intuit India Media Partner: SMEWorld Academic Outreach:  Campus Connect, Infosys
…   Theme Service Research and Innovation Institute (www.thesrii.org) is a professional organization led by senior leaders from major ICT companies, research organizations, academia and government from around the world, with a mission to drive innovation for "IT-Enabled Services" for a better world.  SRII-India is the local chapter of SRII, with a strong focus on emerging economies. About The Conference SRII-2012 conference is the third in the series with focus on Services Innovation in Emerging Economies (ICSEM series), happening in Infosys-Mysore campus, India from Dec 13th to Dec 15th 2012. The conference will bring together researches and practitioners from academia, government, NGOs and industry to share and discuss the latest IT enabled service innovations that are driving government and industry in delivering services. In particular, the focus will be on Social, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) technologies that can change the landscape of services in emerging economies. The conference include quality research and industry papers, and Startup & Student Challenge. Keynotes The conference will have Keynotes on all days by International and Indian thought leaders, including Sam Pitroda, Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations; Subu Goparaju, SVP & Head, Infosys Labs; Vijay Anand, CEO, Intuit India; Ray Harishankar, IBM Fellow and the CTO of Global Solutions & Asset Management within Global Business Services; Kris Singh, President and Chairman, SRII; Sangita Reddy,  Executive Director of the Apollo Hospitals Group; Ajit Singh, Artiman Ventures; and Anil Gupta, IIM Ahmedabad. Tutorials As part of  the conference there are many tutorials, with hands-on sessions, on latest technology topics, ideal for faculty and students to grasp latest enterprise technologies fueling IT based services, including: ·         IAAS Cloud Computing Detailed Walkthrough ·         Writing Android Applications ·         openStack and Cloud Standardization for IT Services ·         Technologies for Cross Enterprise Collaboration ·         Architecting People Connected Government (Singapore) ·         HTML5 based security for Web ·         Hands On Workshop on Design Thinking with Detailed Walkthrough ·         Big Data with Hadoop and Hive Panels It will feature good number of panel discussions on various topics, including Cloud/Mobility, IT in Education, e-Governance, Health Care, IT in Agriculture and Big Data Analytics. The panelists include senior leaders from Government, Industry and Academia across the world, like, ·         Dr. Ravindran, Director of E-governance, Karnataka; Dr. Debabrata Das, IIIT Bangalore; and Dr. Pallab Saha, NUS Singapore for e-Governance ·         Dr. Jiten Patil, Persistent; Girish Khilari, Jamcracker; and Gaurav Bhatia, Intutit India for Cloud/Mobility ·         V.S. Prakash, Director, Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Center; Shailesh Goyal, Intutit India; and Dr. Asanee Kawtrakul, NECTEC Thailand for IT in Agriculture ·         Dr. Shyam Vasudeva Rao, Forus Health; Dr. S.B. Bhattacharya, TCS; and Dr. Chandil Gunasekharan, Ehealth Enablers for Health Care ·         Dr. Vishnukanth Chatpalli, Director of the Knowledge Park Trust of India; Subraya BM, Infosys E&R; Dr. P. Venkat Rangan, Amrita University; and Manisha Mohan, Tata Interactive for IT in Education Registration Details All Faculty members and Students interested  in attending the conference are requested to register on or before 8th December 2012 through online / offline mode.   Indian Regular INR 8750 Indian Student INR 2000 Indian Faculty/Startup INR 4750 Foreign Registration INR 15000   A special discount is offered to all Faculty members and students of Campus Connect Partnering colleges. Please Note that the discount is applicable for registration through offline mode only. 2 Registrations 10% Discount 3-4 Registrations 15% Discount 5 plus Registrations 20 % Discount   To Register Online Click Here srii-india.doattend.com   To Register Offline by DD/Online transfer Download the registration form Download Offline Form Submission Procedure: ·         Please fill all the mandatory fields in the form. ·         Make a DD(Demand Draft) of the respective Amount(depends on the form selection) in fovour of "ICSEM 2012" and please write your Name behind the DD. ·         Please post the form with the DD to the following address Srinivas Padmanabhuni Infosys Labs, building-32, GF, Infosys Campus, Electronic city, Bangalore-560034. Tel :+91-80-41059507 We welcome you to the  SRII-India ICSEM 2012 conference!  and look forward to your participation. With warm Regards, SRII India ICSEM 2012 Team http://thesrii.info