Electronic applications are strongly preferred,
but hard-copy applications (including the names of
at least four references) may alternatively be sent to:
Chair, Faculty Search Committee
Department of Computer and Information
Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389
Applications should be received by January
15, 2009 to be assured full consideration.
Applications will be accepted until positions
are filled.
Questions can be addressed to faculty-search@central.cis.upenn.edu.
The University of Pennsylvania values diversity
and seeks talented students, faculty and staff from
diverse backgrounds. The University of Pennsylvania does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex,
sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, color,
national or ethnic origin, age, disability, or status
as a Vietnam Era Veteran or disabled veteran in the
administration of educational policies, programs or
activities; admissions policies; scholarship and loan
awards; athletic, or other University administered
programs or employment.
university of Rochester
Tenure Track Faculty Positions
The Department of Computer Science at the
University of Rochester invites applications for
tenure track faculty positions. We seek PhD level
candidates in networking, HCI, graphics, and/or
machine learning. In addition, we invite applications for a joint Computer Science/Electrical
and Computer Engineering position in computer
systems and circuits. For full job descriptions
and application procedures, see http://www.
cs.rochester.edu/recruit.
university of western ontario
Postdoctoral Fellow
Applications are invited for a full time Postdoctoral Fellow position (up to 4 years) in the Biocomputing Laboratory in the Department of
Computer Science, the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. The successful
candidate will have a Ph.D. in computer science
or mathematics, and experience in research in
formal language theory, complexity theory, information, coding theory or a related discipline. Salary will be competitive and commensurate with
the applicant’s qualifications and experience.
Please send your resume to Prof. Lila Kari, lila@
csd.uwo.ca
Vanderbilt university
Assist. Professor, Dept. EECS
THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (EECS) AT
VANDERBILT UNIVERSIT Y is seeking candidates
for one or more potential faculty appointments
each in CS and EE. Appointments at all ranks will
be considered, with a preference for appointment
at the assistant professor level. Search areas of
emphasis in CS are software engineering, graph-ics/human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, and/or web technologies. Search areas of
emphasis in electrical engineering are nanoelec-tronics/photonics, and/or signal/image processing. In both CS and EE, we seek opportunities
to add to department capabilities in high performance computing/computational science. A
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related
field is required, as is experience commensurate
with the level of appointment sought.
The EECS has 32 full-time faculty members,
225 undergraduate students, and 170 graduate
students. Research awards to the Department
average $600k per tenure/tenure-track faculty
member. For more information, please visit our
web site: http://eecs.vuse.vanderbilt.edu.
Applications consisting of a cover letter specifying the areas of particular interest in EE or CS, a
statement of planned research activity and teaching interests, a complete curriculum vitae, and
the addresses of four references should be sent
to Professor Daniel M. Fleetwood, Chair, EECS
Department, Vanderbilt University, PO Box 92,
Station B, Nashville, TN 37235-0092. Founded in
1873, Vanderbilt is a private, coeducational university with approximately 6,000 undergraduates
and 5,000 graduate and professional students.
Vanderbilt University is an equal-opportunity,
affirmative-action employer.
yeshiva university
Adjunct
Yeshiva College has the following adjunct positions available for the Fall 2008 semester:
Theory of Computation, Networking & Communication, Computer Organization and Assembly.
Contact Michael Breban at breban@yu.edu
for further information.
york university
Assistant Professor
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering invites faculty applications in computer
graphics with emphasis on digital media, animation and/or interactive/3D systems at the Assistant Professor level in the tenure track stream.
The deadline for applications is November
15, 2008. The full advertisement can be found at
http://yorku.ca/acadjobs.
York University is an Affirmative Action Employer.
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The synthesis of logic and probability allows you to learn this type of
holistic representation [of complex
systems] from real-world data. It gives
you the ability to learn higher-level
patterns that talk about the relationships between different individuals in
a reusable way.
You’ve begun applying your tech-
niques to the field of biology.
Originally, it was a method in
search of a problem. I had this technology that integrated logic and probability, and we had done a lot of work
on understanding the patterns that
underlay complex data sets. Initially,
we were looking for rich data sets to
motivate our work. But I quickly be-
came interested in the problem in
and of itself.
What problem is that?
Biology is undergoing a transition
from a purely experimental science—
where one studies small pieces of
the system in a very hypothesis-driv-en way—to a field where enormous
amounts of data about an entire cellular system can be collected in a matter
of weeks. So we’ve got millions of data
points that are telling us very important insights, and we have no idea how
to get at them.
What have you learned about inter-
disciplinary collaboration from your
work with biologists?
The important thing is to set up a
collaborative effort where each side re-
spects the skills, insights, and evaluation criteria of the other. For biologists
to care about what you build, you need
to convince them that it actually produces good biology. You have to train
yourself to understand what things
they care about, and at the same time
you can train them in the methods of
your community.
So it’s not just learning a new scien-
tific language, but training yourself to
respect a different research process.
It’s a question of finding people
who are capable of learning enough
of the other side’s language to make
the collaboration productive.
Leah hoffmann is a Brooklyn, NY-based science and
technology writer.
