Postdoctoral Positions at the Penn State University Intelligent Information Lab

Postdoctoral Positions at the Pennsylvania State University
Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory

 

The Pennsylvania State University is seeking multiple outstanding
postdoctoral candidates to join the Intelligent Information Systems
Laboratory (http://iis.ist.psu.edu/) at the College of Information
Sciences and Technology.  The position is available immediately or in
the near future.  The researcher will be involved in pursuing research
and mentoring students in the ChemXSeer project
(http://chemxseer.ist.psu.edu/) funded for the next three years by the
National Science Foundation.  The project involves research on
information and knowledge extraction, indexing and mining from text
and images, mediated information integration, database systems and
ontology-based interoperation, social network analysis, and knowledge
management for chemistry and chemists and related areas.

 

Required skills for all positions include a strong record of technical
excellence and achievement as demonstrated through publications,
presentations at national and international meetings, and research in
relevant discipline like database systems, data and text mining,
information retrieval, web information systems, machine learning,
digital libraries, natural language processing, pattern recognition,
etc.  The applicant must possess a strong prior experience in software
development and the ability to design and perform experiments to
validate research hypotheses.  The  applicant must have demonstrated
strong written communication skills.  The candidate must be
self-directed and have the ability and willingness to mentor Ph.D.
students working in the project.  Prior experience in working in an
interdisciplinary, team-oriented technical atmosphere is desirable.

 

The position does fully focuses on research with no expectation of
teaching.  The objective of this position is to enhance the
researcher's skills and record for a placement in a leading university
or research laboratory at the end of the post-doctoral fellowship
(typically two to three years).

 

Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,
Statistics, Mathematics, or a related area.

 

Penn State is a premier Research I university in the northeastern
United States situated in an university town, State College, that is
within three to four hours by car from New York, Washington, D.C.,
Philadelphia, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, etc.  Situated in a
valley surrounded by mountains, State College has a low cost of living
and small university town charm.

 

More information about the future plans for the project will be
provided to interested candidates. Please submit an application
consisting of a CV and names of three references by email to Prasenjit
Mitra ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ) and Lee Giles
([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ).  Applications will be
considered starting immediately and will be accepted on a continuing
basis until the position is filled.

 

Penn State is an equal opportunity employer.