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 (chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov). 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: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
