CS @ uWaterloo announcements

The Information Security Centre of Excellence (ISCX), University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada is seeking a full-time postdoctoral fellow to work with the Centre to carry out research, design and development for the Intelligent Tools for an Automated Security Analysis and Risk Management for Large-Scale Systems project. The proposed toolset will incorporate a set of techniques for automated risk identification, security assessment and mitigation planning. Within this toolset a risk management methodology will be provided to support a process of identifying system threats and assessing the corresponding risks. The risk management toolset will also be equipped with means to trace and analyze roots of these threats for proper selection of follow-up mitigation strategies. This project is funded under the Atlantic Innovation Foundation program. For more information about ISCX, please see www.iscx.ca. Applicants should have a Ph.D. and expertise in one or both of following resea...

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan seeks a postdoctoral fellow in the area of image processing and computer vision to take a central role in an international research project funded by the Digging into Data ( http://www.diggingintodata.org ) program.   The postdoctoral fellow will be part of the Digging into Archaeological Data: Image Search and Markup (DADAISM) project which is comprised of an international group research teams in three countries.   The DADAISM project seeks to improve the searchability of databases of archaeological images in a manner that facilitates the use cases of archaeological researchers.     The project goals of the DADAISM project are: 1. To develop and deploy a mixed-initiative interactive system that combines minimal human annotation with automated processing techniques to transform the tasks of searching for relevant images and relating them to other electronic resources such as grey literatur...

Post-doctoral researcher in informatics of aging Supervisors: Alan A. Cohen (Aging Research Center) and Shengrui Wang ( Department of Computer Science ) We are looking to recruit a post-doctoral researcher with particular strength in quantitative analysis and programming to conduct a research project integrating many aspects of the aging process. The Aging Research Center (Centre de recherche sur le vieillissement, CdRV) is a multi-disciplinary center with many large, unique data sets, and we are seeking someone who can facilitate collaborations among researchers with diverse interests such as biomarker studies (Cohen), nutrition (H. Payette), functional autonomy (N. Dubuc), and social participation (M. Levasseur) in order to understand how each of these processes may affect the others over time. The post thus offers the opportunity to learn about diverse subjects while producing a number of key publications. This post-doctoral position is funded by the CdRV and supported by...

The Telefonica Digital Research group was created in 2006 and follows an open research model in collaboration with Universities and other research institutions, promoting the dissemination of scientific results both through publications in top-tier peer-reviewed international journals and conferences and technology transfer. Our multi-disciplinary and international team counts with about 20 full time researchers, holding PhD degrees in various disciplines of computer science and electrical engineering.   We are seeking candidates for Internships, PostDoc and Researcher (at different levels of seniority) positions to strengthen and complement our efforts in the areas we currently work on:   Big Data Analysis Distributed systems and networking Human–computer interaction Machine Learning Mobile computing User modeling and Recommender Systems Security and privacy   The salaries we offer are competitive and will depend upon the candidate's expe...

We are seeking outstanding candidates (two senior and two junior postdoctoral research fellows) to undertake cutting-edge research on computational sustainability and environmental analysis funded by Campus Alberta Innovates Program (CAIP). The postdocs will be a member of the CAIP Research Chair team at Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada. Athabasca University (AU) is an institution in one of Alberta's four Comprehensive Academic and Research Intensive institutions. AU is committed to engaging its researchers and the community-at-large in promoting the economic and environmental well-being of the land and water of northern communities and providing Basin-based knowledge that can contribute to improved decision-making and community stewardship. The objective of the CAIP program is to use a multidisciplinary and multi-scale analysis by integrating modeling of biogeochemical and hydrological processes with GIS, remote sensing, computational technologies, and social science to i...

Applications from outstanding candidates are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship in algorithm design and optimization at the University of Lethbridge. The research will broadly target the development of advanced algorithms to solve challenging problems in communication networks, facility location and discrete optimization. The position is for one year, but may be extended for up to a second year, subject to the availability of funds. The preferred start date for the fellowship is on or before April 1, 2014. The fellow will join the Optimization Research Group in the Mathematics and Computer Science Department. The group consists of faculty and graduate students at the masters and PhD level whose research areas include telecommunication, transportation and logistics, scientific computation, and bioinformatics. The group members work in a relaxed and collegial atmosphere and maintain strong research collaborations within the grou...

Post-doc position on Structural analysis of counterexamples A key issue in model checking is how to locate faults that caused property violation, when a lengthy counterexample is returned. Previous work done in collaboration with Airbus [Boc10] has addressed this issue in the framework of Scade or Simulink design models. The approach is based on a structural analysis that identifies paths of the model that are activated by a counterexample over time. This analysis allows the extraction of relevant information to explain the observed violation. It may also serve to guide the model checker toward the search for different counterexamples, exhibiting new path activation patterns and thus new ways to violate the property. The aim is to give engineers as much usable feedback as possible before a fix is attempted. The approach has been implemented in a tool called STANCE (Structural ANalysis of CounterExamples). It is closely related to path-based analysis techniques develope...

Postdoctoral position in smart meter data analytics at the University of Waterloo The Information Systems and Software for Energy research group at the University of Waterloo ( http://iss4e.ca ) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to join the smart meter data analytics project. The goal of the project is to develop algorithms and tools to analyze data from electric, gas and water meters, which can be used by businesses and individuals to decrease resource usage and save money. Example functionalities include demand forecasting, computing consumption profiles, and identifying outliers and suspicious events. The position is funded by the IBM Canada Research & Development Centre for one year, with an option of renewal for an additional year. Salary will be determined by IBM Canada based on qualifications and experience. Required qualifications: PhD in Computer Science, Statistics or a related field, obtained within the last five years; strong publication record; experience in prog...

The Telefonica Digital Research group was created in 2006 and follows an open research model in collaboration with Universities and other research institutions, promoting the dissemination of scientific results both through publications in top-tier peer-reviewed international journals and conferences and technology transfer. Our multi-disciplinary and international team comprises more than 20 full time researchers, holding PhD degrees in various disciplines of computer science and electrical engineering. We are seeking candidates for Researcher/PostDoc/Intern positions to strengthen and complement our efforts in the areas we currently work on: - Distributed systems and networking - Human-computer interaction - Mobile computing - Multimedia analysis - Speech processing - Recommender systems - User modeling and machine learning - Security and privacy The salaries we offer are competitive and will depend upon the candidate's experience. We also offer great benefits and a stimulatin...

An NSF funded project at the University of Chicago, “Tracing Influence & Predicting Impact in Science,” invites applications for a Postdoc Scholar or Programmer position. The Postdoc or Programmer will be associated with the Knowledge Lab in the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago (www.uchicago.edu), one of the leading research universities in the United States. Each position will be for 3 years, contingent on annual reappointment. This project develops new measures and models that assess and predict the impact of academic research on science, technology, and the public. Building on progress in the measurement of scientific and technological novelty, as well as phylogenetic models of evolution, advances in computational language understanding, and the increasing electronic availability of historical and contemporary scientific texts, this project creates computational tools to identify scientific claims, embed them in their historical, conceptual, and geographical ...

The Metaknowledge Network, a multi-university research network, invites applications for two Postdoctoral Scholar positions. Both postdoctoral scholars will be based at the associated Knowledge Lab within the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago ( www.uchicago.edu ), one of the leading research universities in the United States. Each position will be for 3 years, contingent on annual reappointment. Metaknowledge research is an exciting new interdisciplinary field that blends Big Data, complex systems methods, and computational social science with sociological, anthropological, historical, and philosophical approaches in order to develop "knowledge about knowledge" (see J.A. Evans and J.G. Foster, Science  331, 721 (2011)). The Network will investigate the knowledge-making processes that give current knowledge its shape and limits, and thereby develop new approaches to go beyond those limits and address new questions. Recent metaknowledge projects by Network ...