PhD Positions at DUT Mobile and Social Computing Lab (China)

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Deadline for application: 15 March 2014.

The Mobile and Social Computing Laboratory at Dalian University of Technology (DUT Phone Lab; http://dutphonelab.org/) conducts interdisciplinary, application-driven academic research in mobile and social computing. The Lab now has 30+ members, including 10+ PhD students (from seven countries on this planet!). We are interested in a broad spectrum of cutting-edge research into social computing, mobile computing, and cyber-physical systems, with focus on e.g. computational social science, mobile social networks, and smart computing systems.

We are opening 2 PhD student positions in mobile and social computing. All positions will be coupled to full Chinese Government Scholarships. Basic living allowance will be 2,000 RMB/month, plus Comprehensive Medical Insurance and Benefit. The scholarships are exempt from registration fee, tuition, and fee for basic learning materials. Accommodation on campus will be provided for free. The University will offer excellent working conditions.

Supervisor: Associate Professor Feng XIA
Working location: Dalian University of Technology @ Dalian, China
Starting date: September 2014
PhD duration: 3-4 years

Qualifications
1. Applicants shall have a master's degree in related discipline.
2. A good command of the English language (in speaking and in writing) is required.
3. Research experience in related areas is a plus.

Application procedure
Before submitting the full application (to the University), each potential applicant should first send an initial application via email to Dr. Feng Xia (f.xia@ieee.org). The application should include a detailed CV (including email addresses of two referees), a brief statement of research experience and interests (no more than one page), and at least two best scientific documents/publications written by yourself (in English). The deadline for applications is 15 March 2014. Only a few candidates will be shortlisted for full application. Interested applicants are highly encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible. We will not accept applications once the positions are fulfilled.

For further information regarding these positions, please contact Dr. Feng Xia (f.xia@ieee.org).

All the best,
Feng
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Feng XIA (夏锋), PhD, SMIEEE, MACM
Associate Professor and PhD Supervisor of Computer Science
Mobile and Social Computing Laboratory  (DUT Phone Lab: http://dutphonelab.org)
School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Development Zone, Dalian 116620, China
Email: f.xia@ieee.org; f.xia@acm.org
URL: http://FengXia.NET

Assistant Professor Position in New Media Technology and Web Intelligence (Vienna, Austria)

Assistant Professor in New Media Technology
Postdoctoral Position (Vienna, Austria)

MODUL University Vienna is an international university located on top of
Kahlenberg with a panoramic view over the City of Vienna. The Department of
New Media Technology is seeking an outstanding young scholar to teach
undergraduate and graduate courses, and collaboratively advance the state of
the art in one or more of the following disciplines:

Web Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Extraction, Visual
Analytics, Semantic Search or Linked Data.

We invite you to participate in award-winning international research and
become part of a young and interdisciplinary team - additional information
on our research projects is available at www.decarbonet.eu, www.pheme.eu and
www.ucomp.eu. The successful candidate will teach courses in undergraduate
and graduate programs offered by MODUL University Vienna
(www.modul.ac.at/study-programs). The teaching load for this position is
five weekly units per semester - one unit equals 45 minutes in the class
room.

Essential Qualifications

** Doctorate in business informatics, computer science, management
information systems, business administration, or a closely related field.
** Outstanding track record in terms of publications and research project
experience.
** Strong analytical skills; ability to supervise and participate in
software development efforts.
** Teaching experience and commitment to conduct engaging lectures and
seminars.
** Excellent written and spoken English (German is not a requirement).

Salary and Application Process

The position remains open until filled; the review of applications will
commence in March 2014. MU Vienna offers five-year contracts with the option
to renew after a performance evaluation. The initial salary is EUR 55,000
before taxes, with additional remuneration for extra teaching and
outstanding scholarship. MU Vienna is an equal opportunity employer and
strongly encourages qualified women to apply. Please send your application
including cover letter, curriculum vitae and list of publications to
maximilian.lang@modul.ac.at (in English or German; preferably as a single
PDF file not exceeding 8 MB).

PDF Version of this Announcement -- http://www.modul.ac.at/jobs

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Prof. DDr. Arno Scharl
MODUL University Vienna
Department of New Media Technology
Am Kahlenberg 1, 1190 Vienna, Austria
web | www.modul.ac.at/nmt
email | scharl@modul.ac.at
twitter | @weblyzard

.Faculty positions on data science and HCI at Syracuse University, School of Information Studies

Data science and HCI positions

Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies (The iSchool, see http://ischool.syr.edu) is soliciting applications for scholars involved in the broad and evolving spaces of data science/ data analytics and human-computer interaction (HCI) to join its renowned and interdisciplinary faculty. These positions are open rank, and we specifically encourage graduating doctoral students, senior assistant professors, and recently tenured faculty to apply.

Located at the center of the picturesque Syracuse University, we seek entrepreneurial colleagues with a passion for innovative scholarship, a desire to work with others on interdisciplinary projects, and enthusiasm for teaching. The iSchool has seven degree programs and an enrollment of 50 doctoral students, 650 masters’ students and 650 undergraduates, led by 42 full-time faculty and over 100 part-time faculty.

The iSchool is at the cutting edge of scholarship and instruction. The school hosts five research centers and laboratories and faculty with recognized strengths in natural language processing, information retrieval, Internet governance and telecommunications policy, digital literacy, information management, information and network security, new forms of work and organizing, gamification, data science, entrepreneurship, and social media. There are campus-level initiatives on computational linguistics, sustainability, and urban education, along with strategic partnerships with J.P. Morgan Chase, IBM, and others as reflected in a curricular focus on Global Enterprise Technologies. The SU-ADVANCE program provides extensive mentoring services for female faculty in STEM disciplines. The ISchool recently acquired an IBM Netezza box, allowing for complex, fast analysis of large data sets, and SU has large data-storage capabilities and is home of the Qualitative Data Repository.

The iSchool seeks colleagues who can deepen and extend our emerging strengths in data science. We see this as a broad area that spans the following: visualization of large data sets and analytic approaches to large and often heterogeneous data sets; developing tools and approaches for scientific collaboration, and for data access and retrieval; computational social science involving large-scale quantitative data, examining large-scale online social configurations; and other possible areas emphasizing large-scale data and its analysis and representation.

The iSchool faculty also seeks colleagues who will continue to expand our strengths in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Although we encourage applications from any area of HCI, we are particularly interested in candidates with research and teaching experience in the design, building and testing of online systems and environments, mobile applications, and other artifacts, and who are engaging in studies of uses and users in the field or laboratory.

The ability to obtain research funding will be considered a competitive advantage in our evaluations, as will evidence of teaching excellence. A record of publishing impactful scholarship is expected. Although rank and years of experience are open, we will consider outstanding ABDs with a strong expectation of a successful dissertation defense by 2015.

To be considered, applicants must submit: a cover letter outlining their interests and qualifications (including the rank they are seeking); a current curriculum vitae; short statements describing research and teaching interests and accomplishments; and the names and contact information of at least three references to: www.sujobopps.com (job #071012). Strong candidates will be contacted for letters of reference and asked to provide research samples and a teaching portfolio or other evidence of teaching experience. Please do not submit these items with the initial application.

We will begin screening applicants on 2 April, 2014 and continue accepting applications until the positions are filled, which may extend into the 2014-2015 academic year.

Please direct questions to Dr. Jennifer Stromer-Galley, search chair, at jstromer@syr.edu

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Bei Yu
Assistant Professor
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University

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DATA SCIENTIST POSITION IN THE AREA OF BIG SPATIAL DATA

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Organisation Unit:	Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information
Location:	Canberra, ACT, Australia
Time Fraction:	1.0 FTE
Remuneration:	$78,070 to $90,369 plus superannuation
Superannuation:	Employer superannuation contributions of 15.4%.
Employment Type:	Full-time (fixed-term) position available to Dec. 31, 2016.
Send applications to (and for enquiries contact):	Prof. Kim Lowell, Program Director, CRC for Spatial Information email/phone: klowell@crcsi.com.au / +61 3 8344 9192 Mailing address : P.O. Box 672, Carlton South, Victoria, 3053  AUSTRALIA Applicants should describe their expertise and experience relative to each selection criterion and provide a detailed curriculum vitae by the closing date. Please include the names, phone, facsimile numbers and email addresses of three referees in your application.
Reference Number:	P3P41.BDEM
Closing Date:	Feb. 26, 2014  Search extended to March 7, 2014

1              Position Summary

As part of a jointly funded and multi-faceted initiative (Project Title: “Big Data for Environmental Monitoring”), a data scientist is required to develop and demonstrate a toolkit that will apply the continental-scale time-series of Landsat observations to typical problems in environmental assessment and natural resources management.  The successful applicant will be employed by the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI) to provide the National Earth Observation Group within Geoscience Australia located in Canberra, ACT with the necessary skills.

The two key components of the toolkit are:

1. The capacity to serve time series of Earth observation data/information products as a web service; and 

2. The capacity to generate automated reports based on existing data pre-defined spatial areas from petabyte scale raster datasets.

An example of the latter is to summarise and report on the “bare earth” within a catchment management area, and how this has changed over the period of observation.

The successful applicant will work with a diverse, highly skilled and motivated team within Geoscience Australia providing experience, knowledge and methods for manipulating large raster datasets on a high performance computing platform.   In addition, partners in the project include universities and state agencies across Australia having a focus on landscape monitoring and management.  The successful applicant will therefore be expected to interact with personnel across the project to execute a work plan that addresses the needs of multiple agencies and groups.

The successful applicant will be a team-player with experience in data delivery via web services and will be able to demonstrate the skills and knowledge needed to analyse, summarise, and serve information via web services using state of the art and open-source applications in a high-performance computing environment.  He/she will have knowledge of, and experience in developing open source applications using languages such as Python, GDAL, OGR, C/C++ on Linux platforms.

Experience across government and academic organisations is desirable, as is knowledge and awareness of natural resources and environmental applications of digital remote sensing/earth observation data and other relevant types of spatial data such as digital elevation models.

2          Role Duties:

·         Working as part of a diverse team, lead the development of a natural resource management / environmental assessment tool-kit for high performance data, within the CRC SI Big Data project.

·         Participate as part of the CRC SI Big Data project team in the setting of work plans that will to progress the research and investigations of the CRC SI Big Data project.

·         According to an agreed program of work, investigate and develop a toolkit to enable the automated query and accessibility of Earth Observation based environmental monitoring products as data services/web services.

·         Support Geoscience Australia’s National Earth Observation Group and its collaborators in developing and implementing a suite of generic open source software tools for the interrogation of petabyte scale numerical arrays.

·         As a member of a wider team including the National Earth Observation Group, the National Computational Infrastructure, the CRC SI and Geoscience Australia’s Information Technology environments, conform to standards and agreed practices to ensure that the toolkit is:

1. Compatible with rapidly evolving data structures/data standards, and

2. Capable of ensuring data and information can be accessed in a timely fashion.

·         Report on progress, and deliver results in appropriate formats and forums that may include internal reports, published articles, and conference presentations.

·         Provide effective and timely communication of relevant operational issues to the Project Manager and team members on the principle of “no surprises”.

·         Maintain an awareness of developments within the Open Geospatial Consortium and web service delivery domains that are relevant to this project (e.g. Web processing services, web coverage services, coordinate reference systems).

3       Selection Criteria

Essential:

1.    Completion of a higher degree in Computer Science or related discipline.

2.    Experience with open source applications using languages such as Python, GDAL, OGR, C/C++ on Linux platforms.

3.    Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with team members and external bodies/industry partners, with the proven ability to use initiative and work effectively with minimal supervision.

4.    Demonstrated leadership in shaping a research project, particularly in a multi-organisational context that may include government agencies, private industries, and universities.

5.    Well-developed written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with industry partners and research collaborators, combined with the ability to provide appropriately targeted system/software documentation, technical reports, and scientific publications.

6.    Well-developed organisational skills with demonstrated ability to effectively plan, organize and prioritise work tasks to achieve quality outcomes within prescribed timelines and project milestones.

Desirable:

Knowledge and experience in:

• Analysing, summarising, and serving information via web services using state of the art and open-source applications in a high-performance computing environment.

·         Earth observation/remote sensing imagery and other types/themes of spatial data including raster and vector formats.

·         The use of spatial data by public agencies involved in environmental monitoring and management.

·         The high performance and optimization of software systems at both system and application levels.

4          Organisational Information

The CRCSI conducts user-driven research in emerging areas of spatial information that address issues of national importance.  It also undertakes commissioned research projects for key clients.  Partners include federal and state government agencies, universities and over 50 companies, cumulatively providing more than $160 million (cash and in-kind) over 2010-18.  The “Big Data for Environmental Monitoring” (BDEM) project addresses the research needs of two CRCSI programs: Spatial data Infrastructure (Program 3) and Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Climate Change (Program 4.1).  Contextually, the BDEM project will address one of the major activities of a broader spatial data infrastructure research strategy on semantic web technologies.

Geoscience Australia (http://www.ga.gov.au) is Australia’s national geoscience agency and a partner of the CRCSI.  Geoscience Australia exists to apply spatial science to Australia’s most important challenges and provides geospatial scientific advice and information to support the Australian government to deliver its priorities.  Geoscience Australia also provides geospatial scientific information to industry and other stakeholders where it supports achievement of Australian government objectives.  The advertised position will be located within the National Earth Observation Group of the Environmental Geoscience Division.  The BDEM project is integrated into ongoing Geoscience Australia research and development activities addressing increased usability of a 20+-year archive of Australia-wide satellite imagery to improve monitoring and management of landscape assets.

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TCS Campus Commune launches INNOVACRACY

                                         TCS Campus Commune launches "INNOVACRACY"  An ideation crowd-sourcing challenge for automotive industry exclusively for UG/PG engineering students!   

Manufacturing Unit  from TCS invites ideas on Breakthrough Innovations for the next Gen Luxury Automobile.
This contest is open for 2014,2015,2016 & 2017 batch students with any disciplines.
                                 

Kindly cascade this information to all the students and encourage them to participate in a BIG number.                                                 Please find attached the pdf document which contains participation guidelines and other imp instructions.

Best Regards                                                                                                                                                                    Bangalore-Campus Recruitment Team                                                                                                                                                                           TATA Consultancy Services                                                                                                                                                                                    Bangalore-560066

Encouraging the spirit of research

If you are having trouble viewing this email, please view it on our website. Greetings from the Infosys Science Foundation. On the occasion of National Science Day, I am happy to share with you an e-book, Encouraging The Spirit of Research, compiled by the Infosys Science Foundation. The book commemorates five years of the Infosys Prize and captures the essence of the work of 31 winners across six research categories. I hope you will share this book with your colleagues and students. The simple language and graphics used will help students understand and access groundbreaking and seminal research. I trust it will spark curiosity in young minds, encouraging them to see and explore the world around them with a new perspective. We look forward to engaging with you through the Infosys Science Foundation lectures and other events. Best regards, N.R. Narayana Murthy President, Board of Trustees, Infosys Science Foundation Founder and Executive Chairman, Infosys Join us on   www.infosys-science-foundation.com © 2014 Infosys Limited 44, Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore - 560 100. Tel: +91 80 28520261 “If you feel you received this message in error, or would like to unsubscribe from future mailings, please click here.”