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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: <Mattmann>, Chris Mattmann <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 10:41 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Two Year Post-doc in Information Retrieval, Software Stewardship for Geosciences and Big Data >Two Year Post-doc in Information Retrieval, Software Stewardship >for Geosciences and Big Data > >We welcome applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Scholar - >Research Associate appointment at the Viterbi School of Engineering >- Computer Science Department of the University of Southern California. >The appointment is in accordance with the university's postdoctoral >education program to provide an opportunity for recent graduates >to further develop their research skills and learn new techniques. > >The candidate will be responsible for researching new and innovative >techniques for software stewardship in the Geosciences community, >specifically working with team members in the NSF EarthCube community. >Research goals include information retrieval techniques to automatically >discern open source software licenses; techniques for metadata >extraction from software toolkits used in the geosciences community, >and new methods for crawling and searching software repositories >and other areas of the web graph. In addition, ranking and retrieval >algorithms for geosciences software will be explored. The applicant >should have strong experience in Apache search software, including >but not limited to Apache Tika, Apache Solr, ElasticSearch, Apache >Lucene, and Apache Nutch. Knowledge of geosciences, Earth sciences, >is a plus, and candidates with formal training and backgrounds in >those areas will be considered. This is expected to be a cross >cutting, Data Science oriented, post doc activity. Applicants >interested in Big Data, geosciences, and in open source are encouraged >to apply. > >The applicant will be connected to the mentor’s teams at the Jet >Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, in close >collaboration with USC. Team members include the USC Information >Sciences Institute and members there who are leading the project; >members from the University of Colorado, and from Penn State >University; and members from the Earth Science Information Partners >(ESIP) Federation. Applicants with familiarity of the ESIP community >and that have participated in projects involving geosciences data >(remote sensing; in-situ; model outputs, etc.) and stewardship, are >encouraged. > >The appointment period is contingent upon providing proof of >employment authorization. Applicants are eligible to be considered >for reappointment on a year-to-year basis, but there is no guarantee >of reappointment, which is at the university's discretion > >Applicants should send a resume, cover letter and statement of >research, and three letters of recommendation to Dr. Chris Mattmann >([email protected]). Decisions will be made promptly, with >the expectation for the applicant to be in the February 2015 time >frame. > > > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. >Chief Architect >Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) >NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA >Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 >Email: [email protected] >WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department >University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > >
