Call to Qualified HCI PhD Applicants

CHI Announcement: Call to Qualified HCI PhD Applicants

The PhD Program in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC), Indianapolis (IUPUI) is seeking outstanding applicants to join our program in Fall 2014. Applications are due March 1, 2014. http://soic.iupui.edu/graduate/hci/phd/

THE PROGRAM: The Ph.D. program in HCI resides in the Department of Human-Centered Computing, a new and growing department in SoIC that includes HCI, Media Arts and Science, and Informatics. HCC and specifically our program in human-computer interaction strongly promote interdisciplinary research at the cutting edge of computing, encouraging collaborations with colleagues in the health and life sciences and the other disciplines housed within the School, as well as with faculty from other units across the IUPUI campus and from the broader Indianapolis business community.

THE SCHOOL: The IU School of Informatics and Computing has been a pioneer, establishing the first program in Informatics in the nation and the first to house a HCI program. SoIC offers three Ph.D. programs (Health Informatics, Bioinformatics, and Human-Computer Interaction), four Master's programs (Health Informatics, Bioinformatics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Media Arts & Science), and three Baccalaureate programs (Informatics, Health Information Administration, and Media Arts & Science). Nearly 1,000 students are enrolled in the school's programs, with faculty and students enjoying state-of-the art facilities and access to Indiana University's extensive investments in scholarly cyberinfrastructure.

THE UNIVERSITY: SoIC is situated on the IUPUI campus, also known as the Indiana University Medical Center Campus. The campus is home to the IU School of Medicine, the second largest medical school in the US, as well as four hospitals. During FY 2011-12, the IUPUI campus was awarded over $400M in 2010 for funded research, much of it in the health and life sciences. The campus is located in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, a thriving, mid-sized Midwestern city with abundant cultural, sports, and historical attractions and home to a number of high-tech companies with relationships to the School, including Eli Lilly & Company, ExactTarget. IU Health.

The research areas currently pursued by our HCI faculty include:

·     Ubiquitous computing and pervasive sensing for healthcare

·     Medical and clinical system design

·     Philanthropic informatics

·     Search user interfaces and information-seeking behavior

·     User experience modeling and design for web, mobile, and wall-sized computing

·     Team cognition and technology-enabled decision science

·     Android science and developmental robotics

·     Accessibility for the blind and visually impaired

FUNDING opportunities for students are available. Our faculty's research is supported by the NSF, NIH, Google, the MacArthur Foundation, and other sources.

For more details on the program, our faculty, and our admission requirements, please visit our website, http://soic.iupui.edu/graduate/hci/phd/, or contact the Program Director directly by email: Anthony Faiola, Ph.D., MFA – faiola@iupui.edu.

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Xerox Research Internship Position -- Social Media Analytics

The Xerox Research Center Webster in New York has multiple internship opportunities in large-scale text mining, information retrieval and social interaction and graph analysis. Successful candidates will be expected to conduct research, design, develop, and deploy state-of-art, scalable text mining and social analytics for innovative applications in urban informatics, personalized communications, and other industry verticals (e.g. healthcare, transportation, financial services, etc.). Applicants will be expected to work with large-scale online social media data set and fuse them with enterprise data sources (such as sensory log data, transaction data and web click stream data, image/video data) to uncover and predict value-driven insights to support on-demand, real-time analytic services.

A (ongoing) Ph.D.  in computer science or related field is required. Knowledge of fundamentals of information retrieval, natural language processing, text mining, machine learning, conversation analysis is highly desired. Proficiency in publicly available data analytics toolkits (such as WEKA, MALLET, etc.) and experience in manipulating and analyzing large data sets using existing technologies such as Hadoop, high performance computing platform will be a big plus. The applicant should also have strong skills in explaining and interpreting the analytic models and outcomes in both research and application contexts.

-Role/Responsibilities

Invent, design and prototype novel next-generation technologies in the areas of big data and social media analytics, information retrieval, natural language processing, and text mining. Collaborate closely with other R&D scientists and engineers in a multi-disciplinary work environment. Work with existing “intrapreneurship� and business teams to develop and help commercialize highly adaptive and robust models.

-Requirements

1.            A (ongoing) Ph.D. in computer-science or related field, and with a strong record of scholarly publications.

2.            Experience in industrial research labs a big plus.

3.            Strong knowledge and skills in rapid prototype programming languages, such as Python, Java, and/or R.

4.            Candidates should possess the interest to work in multi-disciplinary environments, and should have the desire to see their ideas realized in practice.

5.            Strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills.

Interested candidates can send their resume to Sumit.Bhatia@xerox.com. Please put "Internship Application" in the subject line.

Open Rank Faculty Position: iSchool @ University of Illinois

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (GSLIS)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

OPEN RANK FACULTY POSITION

GSLIS seeks to hire an outstanding full-time faculty member to join our iSchool. We are particularly interested in candidates specializing in the digital humanities, but strong candidates in any related area involving the organization, management, preservation, retrieval, and analysis of information are encouraged to apply.  In particular, we seek candidates who can contribute to our active programs in digital libraries, data curation, and data analytics. Applications from members of under-represented groups working in these or other areas of information science are particularly welcome.

GSLIS is a highly interdisciplinary unit and the successful candidate could hold a degree in information science; a field in the arts, humanities or the social sciences; computer science; or other relevant disciplines. Applicants' specific backgrounds could include digital humanities, computational linguistics, semantic web technologies, cultural informatics, and digital archives.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the world's leading research universities. GSLIS, the top-ranked school of library and information science, is an established national leader in both information science research and the preparation of information professionals. GSLIS offers MS and PhD degrees, a Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS), and participates in the University's undergraduate informatics minor, informatics PhD, and MS in Bioinformatics.  For MS and CAS students, GSLIS also offers an award-winning online option (LEEP). GSLIS faculty and students are involved in many initiatives across campus, including collaborations with world-renowned units such as the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS). Our close relationship with scientific and cultural institutions ensures that our research shapes practice and engages critical contemporary problems.

GSLIS is the institutional home of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS), a leader in research and education on the use of data and technology in scholarship. CIRSS supports an active portfolio of research projects with a wide variety of institutional partners, collaborating with national data centers, other iSchools, leading research libraries, and cyberinfrastructure initiatives.  CIRSS sponsors specializations for both MS and PhD students in data curation and in socio-technical data analytics.  In addition to CIRSS, GSLIS houses the Center for Children's Books, the Center for Digital Inclusion, and the HathiTrust Research Center.  The breadth of interest evinced by these initiatives speaks to the collegial and collaborative environment that new GSLIS faculty members will experience.

Appointment will begin August 16, 2014 or as negotiated. Rank is open, and salary will be commensurate with qualifications. A Ph.D. degree or equivalent is required although candidates near completion will be considered. To apply, create a candidate profile at https://jobs.illinois.edu and upload a letter of application, curriculum vitae, short research statement, and a list of three references including contact information. To ensure full consideration applicants must apply by November 15, 2013.

More information about GSLIS programs and faculty can be found at http://www.lis.illinois.edu. For further information regarding application procedures, contact Candy Edwards (cledward@illinois.edu, 217 244-3809). Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity. (http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu).

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Miles Efron

Associate Professor

Graduate School of Library & Information Science

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Pre-Ph.D. and postdoctoral positions in NLP at the Sapienza University of Rome

TWO RESEARCH FELLOW POSITIONS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)

One pre-Ph.D. position (with the possibility of starting a Ph.D. in 2014 on the same salary), and one postdoctoral position, both in Natural Language Processing, are open in the Linguistic Computing Laboratory (http://lcl.uniroma1.it), Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome.

The positions are part of a 5-year ERC Starting Grant funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli (see http://multijedi.org for details and publications). The successful candidates will participate in a frontier research project on multilingual lexical semantics and will work in the vibrant environment of a leading and highly-active research team comprising 2 faculty members, 2 post-docs and 6 Ph.D. students.

REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS

For the pre-Ph.D. position (LCL1-2013)

The successful candidate will work actively on BabelNet (http://babelnet.org) and its developments and extensions, including semantic and statistical machine translation:

* M.Sc. or equivalent in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Mathematics or related fields

* Solid programming skills in Java

* Fluent English. Knowledge of Italian is NOT a requirement.

* Publications in Computational Linguistics are a plus

For the postdoctoral position (LCL2-2013)

The successful candidate will drive the scientific and technological development and future directions of BabelNet (http://babelnet.org):

* Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or related fields.

* Strong publication record in Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing, particularly in knowledge acquisition, (open) information extraction and/or ontology learning.

* Willingness to coordinate and supervise part of the research work of the ERC project.

* Ability to work in a collaborative environment, with a strong commitment to achieving research goals.

* Fluent English. Knowledge of Italian is NOT a requirement.

* Solid programming skills: Java and practical expertise with standard NLP tools are required, knowledge of Perl is a plus.

* Experience in research project management is a plus.

INFORMATION

* Application deadline: November 20, 2013

* Starting date: as early as possible in 2014

* Duration: 1+1+1 years

* Salary: 25000 euros (LCL1-2013) and 37000 euros (LCL2-2013) per annum, depending on qualifications. Note that this type of research contract is exempt from most taxes (25000 euros per annum corresponds to around 1600 euros net per month; 37000 euros per annum corresponds to around 2400 euros net per month).

HOW TO APPLY

Application and informal inquiries can be sent by email to Roberto Navigli (navigli@di.uniroma1.it). The application requires a detailed CV and contact details for up to three references. Please include the job reference (LCL1-2013 or LCL2-2013) in the subject line.

ABOUT THE SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME

The Sapienza University of Rome is a seven-century-old university in the heart of Rome. It is one of the largest universities in Europe, with around 150,000 students. Its Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics and Statistics (that includes the Department of Computer Science) is one of the youngest, most energetic and scientifically active environments at Sapienza. The Sapienza University is an equal opportunity employer.

ABOUT THE SAPIENZA COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

The Department of Computer Science is a modern and well-equipped research institution with a top-class faculty and a strong Ph.D. program. The Department comprises 44 faculty members (among whom 3 ERC grant holders), 15 postdocs and around 30 Ph.D. students. The successful candidates will be based in Rome, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The Department is situated just across the road from the main University Campus, close to a student area with lots of cafes, bars, restaurants, and only a short bus ride from the city centre. Candidates should not be afraid of the language barrier, as Italians are in general very friendly. English is spoken widely throughout the Department.

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Roberto Navigli
Dipartimento di Informatica
Sapienza University of Rome
Viale Regina Elena 295 (second floor)
00161 Roma Italy
Phone: +39 0649255161 - Fax: +39 06 8541842
Home Page: http://wwwusers.di.uniroma1.it/~navigli
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3 year PhD studentship in Visual Contextualisation of Multidimensional Data

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The OAK Group, Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield, is offering a fully funded 3 year PhD Research Studentship in Visual Contextualisation of Multidimensional Data

Application closing date is 15 November 2013.
Start date is 1 January 2014 or soon thereafter but not after March 1 2014

Aim

The aim of this studentship is to research new methodologies for contextualising multidimensional data to support decision-making in complex situations. The studentship will involve working on the externally funded WeSenseIt (www.wesenseit.eu) research project, supported by the European Commission as part of FP7. WeSenseIt is a multi-site, multi-disciplinary project involving researchers and industrial partners in web technologies, environment and sensing, as well as social media monitoring. The project aims to develop a new concept of citizen observatories of water where authorities and citizens cooperate to monitor rivers: the project is providing the social and technological methodology for the observatories, via methods for – among other things – monitoring of social media and the creation of novel low cost sensors that can be used and even built by the citizens themselves.

The student will be designing, developing and evaluating innovative solutions to enable contextual analysis of data focusing especially on the spatial and temporal dimensions and on methods to allow quick visual comparison with historic data and/or similar events. The student will need to focus on methods for interactive data analysis, allowing direct manipulation of data and visualisations.

Requirements
Candidates should have a First Class Honours/Distinction in Computer Science or Engineering (e.g. MComp, MEng or MSc) and have excellent computer programming skills (e.g. Java, Javascript, PHP, HTML, Python). Experience with human computer interaction and information visualisation is essential, and detailed knowledge of Web Technologies (in particular in the use of social media API) and experience in using data analysis tools and techniques (i.e. APIs for information extraction, sentiment analysis etc.) would be highly desirable. A background in user evaluation and statistical analysis of data would also be desirable, but is not strictly necessary.

Stipend and Fees

The grant will cover all study fees for EU and UK nationals and a living stipend for three years. The stipend will provide £13290 p.a.. The project will also provide travel funds for the student to attend international conferences. Non-EU citizens can apply but the bursary will not cover the additional non-EU fees (about £9,000 a year).

Full description can be found at http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/F.Ciravegna/VAWeSenseItSFD.pdf 

For further information please contact
• Prof. Fabio Ciravegna (f.ciravegna@sheffield.ac.uk) AND • Dr Vitaveska Lanfranchi v.lanfranchi@dcs.shef.ac.uk AND • Dr Stuart Wrigley s.wrigley@dcs.shef.ac.uk

Best wishes

Prof Fabio Ciravegna,
Professor of Language and Knowledge Technologies,
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield,
Regent Court, 211 Portobello, S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK
Tel: +44(0)1142221940, Fax: +44(0)1142221810
www: http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/People/F.Ciravegna/ 

Assistant Professor in Information Analysis and Retrieval at the University of Michigan School of Information

https://www.si.umich.edu/information-analysis-and-retrieval-assistant-professor

The School of Information at the University of Michigan (UMSI) seeks a tenure-track professor at the assistant professor level in the areas of information analysis, information retrieval, or "big data".  While we encourage applications from all areas of information analysis and retrieval, we are particularly interested in candidates with strong interest and expertise in creating novel techniques for mining large-scale text, behaviors, and scientific data and in developing visualizations or other interactive tools for data analysis. Particular applications of interest include but are not limited to scientific and health data analysis, text analysis, social media analysis, digital humanities, and information interfaces.

For all UMSI positions, we favor candidates whose research interests complement our existing expertise in such areas as computer-supported cooperative work; digital archives and preservation; human-computer interaction; incentive-centered design and information economics; information seeking, sharing and use; Internet-scale data, network and text analysis; social computing and informatics; and health informatics.

The mission of the School of Information is to create and share knowledge to help people use information -- with technology -- to build a better world. A successful candidate will be committed to, and will directly contribute to our goal of being the best research and teaching institution for the understanding and design of information and its technologies in service of people and society.

The School is home to vibrant research and teaching programs, with 36 FTE professors, and over 400 students.  We offer a Ph.D., a Master of Science in Information, a Master of Health Informatics (joint with the School of Public Health), a jointly-offered undergraduate informatics major, and as of fall 2014 we will offer our own Bachelor of Science in Information. Founded in 1817, the University of Michigan has a long and distinguished history as one of the first public universities in the nation. It is one of only two public institutions consistently ranked among the nation's top ten universities. The University has one of the largest health care complexes in the world and one of the best library systems in the United States. With more than $1 billion in research expenditures annually, the University has the second largest research expenditure among all universities in the nation. The University has an annual general fund budget of more than $1.7 billion and an endowment valued at more than $7.6 billion.

Qualifications:

•    Ph.D. in an area such as computer science, information science, statistics, informatics, computational linguistics, or related fields concerned with information analysis and retrieval

•    Demonstrated potential for successful teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level

•    Demonstrated potential for high scholarly impact

•    A strong commitment to teaching, interdisciplinary research, and cultural diversity

Review of applications will begin November 1, 2013 and continue until the positions are filled. Beside this position, the UMSI is also looking for applications to the area of human-computer interaction and the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Community Information. For more information or to apply, please visit https://www.si.umich.edu/umsi-faculty-positions-2013-2014. For questions about potential fit and your application please contact Dr. Qiaozhu Mei at qmei@umich.edu. 

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action educator and employer.

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Qiaozhu Mei

Assistant Professor

School of Information, Computer Science and Engineering

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Phone: 734-763-0076

Web: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~qmei/